Hey 👋 - Nik here, founder of Launchkit.
Happy Tuesday to 337 builders!
Last week, over $11.9B has been invested in over 930 amazing new startups and projects around the world.
In this episode we’ll cover 9 of last week’s most interesting new business ideas & deals that might get you inspired for your next project:
💡 Launch a bite-size microlearning platform like Arist in your niche
👻 Create a mystery trip service like Journee in your country
💻 Start a light-weight flexible workspace business like Around
🚜 Start the “Wikipedia of Farming” like Wikifarmer in your country
💸 Help salespeople amaze prospects with interactive, no-code “microsites” like Trumpet
….and much more. Enjoy reading! You can discover more wonderful business ideas and over 850 fully functional and customizable No-Code Launchkits to get started with your next build on 🧪 Launchkit.
💸 Help salespeople amaze prospects with interactive, no-code “microsites” like Trumpet
Pre-Seed $1.96M (6 days ago) | Lightbird Ventures et al. | UK
Personalised, live sales minisites that close deals
Instead of outdated PDF decks and email chains, Trumpet allows sales professionals to create personalised and data-driven microsites, or ‘Pods’, in minutes, using APIs, no-code tools and templates. Essentially, the startup allows salespeople to create personalized sales minisites to amaze their prospects and book more demos, which then transforms into a collaborative workspace with the prospect in order to close a deal more quickly and easily. Co-founder and CEO Rory Sadler said “the platform provides salespeople with a no-code solution to create live, centralised and personalised microsites which can be used across the entire sales cycle. This seamless experience speeds up, and optimises buyer journeys whilst reducing the growing amount of admin salespeople are faced with”. The platform serves the sales teams of various enterprises and was founded in 2021 in London, England.
Source | Website
🚜 Start the “Wikipedia of Farming” like Wikifarmer in your country
Seed, undisclosed amount (5 days ago) | Metavallon VC et al. | Greece
Building the go-to site for people seeking to purchase agricultural products
Wikifarmer operates a platform that educates farmers and gives them access to the open market to sell their products at fair prices. Agriculture is still one of the least digitized industries in the world and this has not allowed the industry’s value chain to be disrupted, but instead has created a paradox; farmers are the most valuable part of agriculture’s value chain but make the least profit out of it. Wikifarmer’s platform allows farmers to access free up-to-date knowledge on agricultural best practices and gives them the opportunity to sell their products directly to businesses, helping them minimize or surpass the large number of intermediaries that currently exist. Wikifarmer is aiming to become the universal source for farmers searching for information and the go-to destination for people seeking to purchase agricultural products globally.
More Info | Website
💡 Launch a bite-size microlearning platform like Arist in your niche
Seed $15.2M (6 days ago) | Y Combinator et al. | US
Helping enterprises launch and analyze bite-size trainings
Arist helps companies deliver learning, training, and nudges in the flow of work via Teams, Slack, and text message-based courses. Essentially, the startup helps enterprises create, deliver, and analyze “microlearning” in tools that learners check every 6 minutes. A typical Arist lesson takes no more than 5 minutes, but is equal to 20-30 minutes worth of traditional e-learning and lessons can be stringed together to make full trainings. A typical Arist lessons works in 3 steps:
Pair concise explanations with images, GIFs, links, and more.
Add questions, assessments, or exercises. Learners can just text back.
Feedback or additional content can be sent right after a user responds.
The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Website
👻 Create a mystery trip service like Journee in your country
Seed $2.11M (5 days ago) | Fuel Ventures et al. | UK
Matching travelers with "mystery" trips
Journee is a travel technology company that matches users to destinations and trips based on their personality. Users fill out a 15-minute form, which includes questions about budget, dates, places they do not want to go, and what they like. Essentially, the startup founded in 2019 by former Depep employees, matches travelers with "mystery" trips by collecting their preferences around budget, dates, location and experiences. When the match is made, the online service manages the booking process for travelers, books flights, accommodations, and experiences, and informs them where they are going once they reach the airport. Journee claims its technology can reduce the time to plan a trip from between 10 and 30 hours to 15 minutes.
Info | Website
💻 Start a light-weight flexible workspace business like Around
Seed $3.8M (4 days ago) | Gaingels et al. | Mexico
Transforming idle space into fully furnished workspaces
Around is a Mexican startup that transforms idle space and gives growing businesses access to unique, fully furnished workspaces with high-speed internet, unlimited coffee, and other services all included in a monthly subscription plan. The startups follows a lightweight approach as it does not own any spaces, but instead merely transforms and markets existing, idle spaces to its customers. Around.to created a beta version in January 2020 in CDMX and during the months of isolation caused by Covid-19, the company quadrupled their offer to more than 150 available spaces, mainly in the Polanco, Reforma Centro, Condesa and Del Valle areas.
Website
👋 Start a 100% human customer care outsourcing solution like Onepilot in your country
Series A $15.89M (6 days ago) | First Bridge Ventures et al. | France
Building the next-gen customer care outsourcing solution
As the volume of online transactions grows and consumers expect faster and better answers from e-merchants round the clock, the French platform is offering businesses an all-in-one outsourcing solution with competitive costs and higher quality than traditional outsourcers. It works with a growing network of 500+ freelance agents based locally who remotely solve tickets using the Onepilot tech. Onepilot platform offers agents simplified access to knowledge, driven by AI, and a unified work environment with popular tools integrations allowing agents to perform refunds, track orders, and other tasks in a few clicks. The company will expand its operations outside France and the U.K., starting with Germany and Spain this summer and with the rest of Europe following soon after.
More Info | Website
👷 Launch a specialised employment platform just like JobGet in your niche
Series B $52M (5 days ago) | Jazz Venture Partners et al. | US
Building the LinkedIn for shift workers
JobGet is a job employment platform specifically built for the hourly workforce. Users can create a profile, apply to one-click jobs, and chat with employers all within 5 minutes. In a nutshell, JobGet has ambitions to build a go-to hub like LinkedIn, but for a very different sector of the labor market: waged or hourly workers. Built specifically for them, JobGet provides them with listings for jobs and an opportunity to connect with others doing similar work, access for recruiters to tap people for openings they might have, and down the line more tools such as training and development to help them along their own career ladders. “Our ultimate vision is to become the home for the hourly workforce,” said CEO and co-founder Tony Liu, “not just job search but career progression, connecting with their community and more.”
More Info | Website
📦 Build a profitable subscription box business like Sampler
Unattributed $1.54M (7 days ago) | BDC Capital | Canada
Let customer explore new products from the comfort of their homes
Sampler is a Direct-to-Consumer product sampling platform helping brands deliver samples online and gather the insights they need to build one-to-one relationships with consumers. Unlike traditional sampling where brands are often found handing out samples at random, Sampler allows brands to target, track, and measure the sampling program from start to finish. Sampler merges the strengths of product sampling with the power of data to enable brands to build data-driven product experiences. It all starts with a free product trial delivered directly to a consumer’s home, then continues with the collection of feedback and an engaging post-sampling journey that drives a clear path to purchase. Sampler has 80 million+ data points on millions of consumers in North America’s fastest-growing community of high intent, active shoppers online, with the ability to target across 650+ audience segments.
More Info | Website
👾 Launch a game-like upskilling platform like Wilco for design, marketing, or another niche
Seed $7M (6 days ago) | Shopify et al. | Israel
An upskilling platform with a twist
Wilco is a developer upskilling platform allowing every developer, regardless of their background or skill level, to accelerate their professional development. In contrast to other upskilling platforms, Wilco’s platform offers developers a fantasy tech company, providing a game-like experience designed to accelerate their professional growth. With Wilco, engineers go on quests that challenge them to navigate complex life-like scenarios while utilizing real tools and technologies. On Freund, Co-founder & and CEO of Wilco, said, "To build successful careers, developers need to acquire and continuously practice a wide range of skills beyond coding. Many soft skills and technical areas of expertise — like team communication, debugging complex systems, and responding to crises — are picked up by developers only with countless hours of hands-on experience, which is hard to come by."
More Info | Website