The Ecosystem of Washington Startups

WalletHub is a leading personal finance website that helps consumers make smarter financial decisions. Read more

hCentive is a software development company that offers products for health insurers and state health agencies. Read more

With capability in 140 languages, Appen works with leading technology companies to expand into new global markets. Our comprehensive expertise in search, language, and social technology, combined with an agile crowd sourcing model, power companies to offer relevant and localized product experiences. Our solutions help companies transform the limitless amount of data pouring in from across the web, from around the world, into tools that create and increase engagement for their customers. Appen’s global network of specialists and in-country virtual teams, assures that products perform in every market, to drive brand growth and gain competitive advantage. We are passionate about people, language and technology —the nexus of which drives our mission to cultivate global connection. Read more

Nutritionix is a B2B platform that allows brands to organize and publish complex food data. Nutritionix currently maintains the largest database of verified nutrition information on the web, with over 300,000 unique food items from thousands of grocery stores and restaurant chains. Nutritionix currently provides nutrition data solutions to over 50 clients including major restaurant chains, food manufacturers, search engines, and health companies. Read more

AppTap is an app recommendations and advertising service helping consumers find apps relevant to their interests and app developers get their apps discovered. Our contextual recommendations engine delivers relevant apps in articles on leading media sites - helping consumers find apps related to their interests and boosting engagement and revenue for our partner sites. AppTap's advertising network helps app developers promote their apps to target consumers across our network of partner sites. Read more

SummitSync provides a marketing software that helps companies with events management, meeting management, and ROI tracking. Read more

Bitrix24 is a social enterprise network that's 100% free to small businesses (under 12 employees). It combines Yammer (social intranet), SalesForice (CRM), FaceBook (likes), BaseCamp (project management), DropBox (file sharing). Read more

CommonLit is an educational non-profit that helps students gain reading skills. Read more

Custom Ink is a provider of an online platform used for custom apparel and accessories for groups and occasions. Read more

Our platform gives developers the power to make maps that embody their product and brand. MapBox helps you find bars on foursquare, search for hotels on Hipmunk, and organize notes in Evernote. With our global, autoscaling infrastructure and cross-device compatibility, integrating our maps into your apps is easy even if you have millions of users. Over the last 3 years our team of dedicated cartographers, data analysts, and software engineers has built our entire stack using open source software and open data. We are fully bootstrapped, based in Washington, DC and San Francisco, and we're just getting started. Read more

DocASAP provides patient access and engagement platform for health systems, payors, and physician groups. Read more

Ratemyband.com is a community for musicians, fans, and venues to come together and share their interests. Muscians cans freely promote their music for very little money and will be promoted based off of their popularity on the site. Fans will be able to stay updated with the new bands with a click of the button. Venues can promote themselves and connect with both bands and fans. Ratemyband.com provides all music lovers a community for their music needs. Read more

Remine is an MLS platform in 40 markets and available to more than 825,000 agents and their clients. Read more

Atexto generates speech data to train conversational software Read more

Clever Girl Finance is an online financial, education platform for women. Read more

VisitDays allows universities to know the identities and key attributes of the most promising candidates and their families during the campus visit - prior to the application. This is possible by VisitDays scheduling platform that allows parents and students to meet with faculty, admissions & financial aid offices, sit in a class and take a tour all in one simple and intuitive platform. Read more

Virtru is the first company to make email privacy accessible to everyone. Through its browser plug-ins and mobile apps, Virtru empowers individuals and business to control who receives, reviews, and retains their digital information -- wherever it travels, throughout its lifespan. The company has set a new standard for digital privacy based on the Trusted Data Format (TDF), created by Virtru Co-founder Will Ackerly and used by the intelligence community to secure some of the nation's most sensitive data. Virtru requires no special skills or knowledge, supports all popular email and file types, and can be used on a PC, Mac, or mobile device. Read more

Network for Good is a operator of a fundraising and donor management platform for non-profits. Read more

Cybrary is the cybersecurity and IT Career Development Platform. Cybrary is the fastest growing, fastest-moving catalog in the industry. Read more

UniSender is a service to create, send and track e-mail and SMS campaigns. Read more

Tellius is an AI-powered business analytics platform designed to help enterprises accelerate data-driven insight and decision-making. Read more

ChurnZero is customer success software for growing SaaS and subscription businesses. Read more

The first e-commerce and f-commerce platform that brings nonprofits, consumers, and businesses, together. With Recoup, nonprofits and businesses get their very own shopping pages. When customers buy an item, 10 percent of the purchase price goes to a Recoup charity partner of the buyers choice. – Recoup builds their nonprofit partners (350+ to date) a customized shop and profile. Nonprofits don’t have the expertise or experience to build their own shopping site. With Recoup, they don’t have to. Everything is done for them so they can focus on promoting the shop to their supporter lists, and raising money. – Recoup populates the nonprofit’s shop with offers from their 500+ business partners. This saves nonprofits the hassle of finding their own business partners, and inking their own deals. It also allows small businesses to work with large nationwide nonprofits. – Recoup opens the nonprofit and its shop to a broader audience and every sale generates a STATED and VISIBLE donation. Read more

Octopus Interactive Inc. is the leader in rideshare entertainment and advertising in North America. Read more

Legends of Learning is an e-learning platform focused on game-based learning to advance education. Read more

Event planning SaaS. Web-based CAD diagramming. World's most powerful seating chart software. A CRM for your event. Read more

Arcadia is a nationwide home energy platform providing clean energy and savings. Read more

BigTeams develops the most comprehensive custom high school athletic websites and software available in the high school marketplace. Read more

Bright Bot is a mobile analytics platform that connects to mobile apps through an API/SDK. We turn fun educational apps into powerful classroom tools for teachers. After listening to teachers and developers, we realized that app developers need a toolkit to build apps designed for the classroom. Bright Bot aligns the activities in mobile apps to common core standards and provide teachers with a dashboard see how well students are learning across a suite of apps. In a matter of minutes, Bright Bot makes fun educational apps classroom-ready at minimal cost, and exposes app developers to a broader market of educators. Bright Bot personalizes student learning across a range devices and platforms in the classroom. Bright Bot enabled apps allow teachers to monitor student activity on mobile devices and gather data on student progress towards mastery of Common Core standards. With this data, teachers can make adjustments to their instruction in real time, based on student need. Read more

DrFirst provides software solutions for physicians and healthcare providers ranging from HIPAA secure messaging, e-prescribing, and EHR. Read more

SaaS platform for varsity strength and conditioning coaches to create and share workouts for athletes to track fitness data. Read more

Prefect is a workflow management system that helps to eliminate data flow problems for companies’ data teams. Read more

We’re doing education differently. We believe that knowledge powers possibility, and you should never stop learning. By bringing together the public and private sectors to change the way education is delivered, we’re equipping today’s learners with the skills they need to become tomorrow’s leaders. Read more

Goodshuffle is modernizing the event rental industry through a marketplace for online booking & SaaS platform to streamline operations. Read more

An online, neighbor-to-neighbor marketplace helping people safely and securely post, rent and share their household items with their communities. Read more

MPOWER Financing is a social benefit corporation financing domestic and international students. Read more

A geolocation-based realtime marketplace matching people with needs and providers with solutions.  Read more

Speek makes conferencing calling simple! No more ten digit numbers or pins to remember. Speek allows callers to join a conference call via a personal link that is easy to remember (e.g. speek.com/yourname). No downloads are required, just join your call via the phone or VOIP.  Read more

ShiftMed offers a uniquely efficient and user-friendly approach to on-demand staffing for the healthcare industry with 90%+ show rates. Read more

UrbanStems is an online gifting company that provides on-demand flower delivery services. Read more

&pizza is a pizza and craft beverage brand Read more

VisaHQ’s online platform makes it simple to obtain travel visas by streamlining and automating the application process. Whether you are a seasoned business traveler or a first-time overseas vacationer, our secure and intuitive platform saves time and hassle leaving you free to focus on your upcoming trip. Headquartered in Washington D.C., VisaHQ was founded in 2003 on the premise that physical borders between nations can be made invisible via technology. Our mission has always been to create a more accessible, secure world for every traveler. Read more

Xometry offers an online marketplace that allows customers to access a network of machine shops and custom manufacturers. Read more

myDigitalOffice is an easy-to-use hoteliers data visualization, process automation, and performance management software. Read more

flexReceipts enables retailers to provide digital receipts. Through it's digital receipts database, flexReceipts also offers retailers superior data analytics and a new way marketing medium (i.e. couponing/promoting on the digital receipt). flexReceipts works with Point-of-Sale (POS) software companies to deploy it's technology to retailers. Currently flexReceipts enjoys many relationships with the nation's largest POS companies.  Read more

LifeZette is a for-profit and editorially independent publication company. Read more

A nationally recognized and award winning creative web design agency. Read more

Ringio is a CRM-friendly phone solution for businesses who love their customers and want to use every phone call to maximize their impact in customer acquisition and retention. Whenever somebody calls, it shows you who it is, how your team has interacted with them in the past, their latest social updates, and any notes or relevant information to help you have most productive conversation. Ringio is popular with tech companies, online retailers, insurance, law and real estate brokerages. Read more