2022 has been a crazy year… for a lot of reasons.
The events that have taken place in the past couple of years have totally changed the way people view their lives, careers, and what new ideas this world needs right now.
Reflecting the vibe of this year are these fourteen startups that launched in the past few years and are making strides in user experience and retention rates.
We hope these startups give you some kind of inspiration for new technologies that could benefit the world at this moment in history.
Let’s take a look!
AnyFans
You guessed it. Yes, it is similar to the website OnlyFans, but there’s a lot more to it than that.
AnyFans is an immersive, all-inclusive social media experience, whereas OnlyFans is strictly for viewing content on each creator’s page.
The website has raised $500K in seed money, including $100K raised in a crowdfunding campaign within the first twenty-four hours of its launch.
6AM City
6AM City is a news consolidating publishing company that gathers the most vital local news stories in a 24-hour period, then condenses them into one convenient newsletter tailored to your interests.
They raised $8.8M in their Series A round, $5M of which was raised in late 2021.
Koniku
Koniku is a rapidly growing company from San Rafael, California that specializes in smells.
Yes, its founders forged a neurocomputation platform that interacts with odor.
Essentially, they taught a computer how to smell.
It doesn’t sound so crazy when you scroll down their main page and realize that this technology helps detect diseases in people and can even detect bombs and explosives for security reasons.
Koniku raised $49.2M in their Series A investment round.
Probandu
Probandu is an undisclosed medical research recruitment platform from Graz, Austria. Potential participants can scroll through an array of various medical experiments and volunteer as test subjects for the experiment(s) of their choice.
Participants are paid well considering that since Probandu’s launch they have amassed over 20,000 participants for a multitude of emerging medical studies.
3DLOOK
Created to solve the mundane problems of online shopping, 3DLOOK allows users to upload avatars of their bodies onto the platform to see how well certain pieces of clothing will fit them. 3DLOOK’s AI fitting room accurately depicts clothing on your avatar so you can avoid the hassle of returning clothes that don’t fit.
3DLOOK even uses its AI capabilities to filter clothing that best suits each user’s body type.
In their Series A investment round, 3DLOOK raised over $14M.
Agasta
A biotech startup from Noida, India, Agasta has been steadily growing in popularity since the project got its start in 2010.
Agasta is a remote heart monitoring device that doctors can use to view their patients’ vitals even from outside official medical facilities.
Agasta has raised over $2M, and over 6,000 doctors and medical professionals use it on a regular basis.
Simango
One of the more innovative medical software tools of our time, Simango combines virtual reality, education technology, and health software to create a VR-based learning platform to train doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other medical professionals.
Developed in Rennes, France, Simango has already been used to train over 10,000 medical professionals since the project’s conception in 2018.
Confluera
Confluera is a cybersecurity program specifically tailored to companies who run their metrics outside of the standard “cloud” platform. Confluera has raised over $29M in less than four years due to its unique adjustments to threat detection, threat analytics, and cloud-security solutions.
Caamtech
Caamtech is developing new medicines based on psychedelic substances.
Psychedelics have always been viewed as more or less taboo in the western world, but a new wave of researchers and lobbyists have been working to change people’s opinions on them. Caamtech is the product of a specialized research center at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Caamtech is researching the effective utilization of tryptamines which are similar to the main compounds in psychedelic mushrooms and LSD.
Caamtech closed in their Series A investment round at $22M last September.
So Synced
Developing a new approach to dating apps, So Synced matches people based on their Myers-Briggs Personality Type.
Since launching, the program has amassed over 100K users and paired thousands of couples.
Ampersand:
This Rwandan startup is working on a battery-swap energy network for lightweight vehicles. They have given over 5 million taxi motorcycles to the taxi workers of Rwanda and have been steadily cutting the cost of working since their emergence on the market.
Toilet Startups
Over the past decade, so-called “toilet startups” have made headlines as more people realize the significance of their work. Doctors, chemists, bioengineers, etc. have been working with people’s bodily waste to innovate methods of disposal, treatment, and recycling that directly impact how our food arrives on our tables.
Here are some of the more interesting startups we found.
Reinvent the Toilet Challenge
Starting in 2011, the Gates Foundation started this program to study more efficient designs/capabilities of average household toilets. It is part of a multi-faceted effort to support products and technologies that remove harmful substances from waste, recover useful resources, and spearhead sustainable sanitation methods in poor and urban communities.
Here are some examples of successful program participants:
Sedron Technologies
A benefactor of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, Sedron develops sanitation tools to bring down costs of disposal, capture energy, and even recycle energy while destroying harmful pathogens.
Eram Scientific
Eram Scientific is an Indian startup that developed an electronic toilet for public use that is self-cleaning, portable, and environmentally conscious. Toilets are analyzed remotely with a GPRS system that tracks location, maintenance, and other metrics.
For more information:
https://explodingtopics.com/blog/tech-startups
https://www.fastcompany.com/90710812/15-tech-startups-to-watch-2022
https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/vc-poop-startups-agricultural-human-waste/
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