The 13 startups were most likely to reverse in 2014.

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2013 was born a lot of hot start-up companies, into the new year, start-up companies will have what kind of development. BusinessInsider the "most bullish who" made his own judgment. Some of them are currently facing human or technical difficulties, but the new year will be one of the highlights of the attack. PS. These 13 families have 4 to do payment or financial management, it seems that this is a big trend Oh!

Birdi: Next nest?

Refer to Smart home, we first thought should be nest (on behalf of the products have temperature controller and intelligent alarm, click to see the report), but Birdi production of intelligent alarm function more comprehensive, can detect smoke and nitric oxide content, and in the event of an emergency through the smartphone to alarm. In addition, this intelligent detection device can also detect other components in the air, the air quality of breathing in the home. Currently, Birdi has raised 25473 dollars in a 50,000-dollar financing plan for the Indiegogo website.

Circle: Convert bitcoin into a mainstream payment currency

Circle provides a more convenient payment platform for businesses and individual users using Bitcoin, which is cheaper to trade than other means of payment, and is said to better protect user privacy. For businesses, the risk of transaction costs and financial fraud may be reduced.

In October 2013 Circle received $9 million in funding from a round of financing (at the time it was the biggest financing for a digital money start-up, a click to see the report), and the investors included Jim Breyer,accel partners,general Catalyst The same.

SNAPCHAT:2014 success in this year

Photo: Snapchat company CEO Evan Spiegel

I believe that after reading the application of Snapchat is not unfamiliar, 2013 for Snapchat is a glorious year, but its effect on how to see 2014 years of development.

The Snapchat user base is large and the number of users has exceeded 400 million, but the total number of downloads and the number of active users per month is less than that of Instagram. The app now sends photos of 400 million messages a day.

Snapchat rejected Facebook and Google's takeover requests, which were priced at 3 billion and 4 billion dollars respectively.

Recently, Snapchat, the company's founder Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy were accused by the former Stanford University of closing point Reggie Brown, claiming that the photo was originally his idea, but was plagiarized by two people, to obtain one-third of the company's shares. Christmas is out again Gibson studied the existence of major security risks, snapchat.db the opportunity to disclose the 4.6 million Snapchat user's username and corresponding phone number (click to see the report).

Inside.com: One of the top ten websites in America

Internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has been involved in a number of internet start-ups, and his next target is a website called inside.com, which is currently operating in stealth mode and has not yet been made public, so there are few reports at home. But according to Calacanis's Twitter account, "inside.com will not disappoint."

At the end of November last year, Inside.com completed a small test for 15 people, and plans to expand the test to 100 people this month.

Calacanis in an interview with Bizjournals said: "The wonderful site will let everyone surprised." The site will open up different branches, such as architecture, aerospace and so on, providing a wide range of in-depth reports.

Ambro: A new concept of diet

For those who are too busy to eat every day, Ambro, a Finnish start-up, offers a solution to the problem. Drinking Ambro takes only 2 minutes to replenish the nutrients and energy needed every day.

The product is currently available only to 120 users in Europe and North America and is expected to be officially sold in February 2014.

Clinkle: Paying for start-up Nova

Clinkle CEO and Founder: Lucas Duplan.

Lucas Duplan, who also studied computer science at Stanford University, began implementing mobile payment start-up Clinkle. Last year the company performed well in seed-round financing, gaining 25 million of billions of dollars, the best level of funding for Silicon Valley seed rounds under the bed.

At the age of 19, the young entrepreneur began recruiting undergraduate and master graduates from campus to work for the company. But the company's personnel changes have also made the media a lot of criticism, the end of 2013 to cut One-fourth employees. But the good news is that Duplan graduated a year early from Stanford, hoping that his devotion to the company would bring a turnaround.

Lyft: Subversion of the traditional car rental industry

With Lyft carpool cheaper and won the California residents praise. Last September, the California Public Utilities Commission legalized car-pooling fees, and Lyft also benefited from the decision, which was changed from a donation-only payment to a mileage charge. Of course, the same benefits are similar to the taxi app Uber,sidecar.

In addition, Lyft's services extend to the San Francisco East B. area, Oakland to Custer Valley and some suburbs of Los Angeles, California (such as Pasadena,malibu).

Oscar: Reforming the health care business

Oscar is a health start-up that has been born in response to the introduction of the Obama Parity medical bill (ACA) and is one of a number of start-ups that provide health care solutions from the new health care bill. Oscar, based in New York, is committed to making health-care programs more transparent and designed to target specific users. Its CEO, Joshua Kushner, hired a team of 25 people (including Mario Schlosser, a computer engineer) to raise $40 million in the second half to form Oscar.

Oscar's rivals include U.S. big-name medical insurance companies such as Aetna (Aetna), UnitedHealth (United Health insurance). In the fall of 2013, Oscar began a trial operation to provide New Yorkers with a more reasonable health plan under the direction of ACA, and the official service is expected to be launched in January 2014.

Coin: A card in hand, pay no worries

Is it inconvenient to have all kinds of bank cards in your wallet? The coin card provides a simpler alternative. Start-ups stand out from the Y Combinator project and are favored by Google wallets. Coin can integrate up to 8 cards, debit cards and other electronic card information, and the corresponding functions. For example, pay the direct brush coin card, with coin card in ATM terminals (click to see the report).

At present, Coin Card service has not been officially launched, we also put forward a variety of security concerns and puzzled. Because coin card and mobile phone application corresponds, if the cell phone is out of power, coin card How to work is a problem. In addition coin card security how to guarantee: The current measure is if the coin card leaves the handset for more than 10 minutes, or the cell phone is dead, the coin card will automatically lock (click to read the report).

Conclusion: The concept is very new, but the market acceptance will take time.

Level money: Electron Tube Home

Level is based on iOS's money management application, which helps users manage spending lines. Once the application is associated with a bank account, it automatically counts the daily, weekly, and monthly purchases and balances. Level advocates a healthy and moderate consumption concept, measuring the balance of the user's income and expenditure, and through a concise chart display.

There are still a number of significant limitations to level money, such as a single function that reflects revenue and expenditure, cannot be used for money transfer, and does not support the Android platform.

Level Money's CEO is Jake Fuentes, a former global new product manager at Visa. A round of financing received 5 million of dollars in investment, led by Kleiner Perkins, the former Citigroup executive Sandy Weill also participated in the financing.

Whisper: Expected to be the next top target for acquisitions

Figure: Whisper Company Ceo:michael Heyward

Whisper is an intimate social application that combines pictures and text, and users can anonymously share secrets with images embedded in text. Starting from the launch is very popular with users, on average open 8-10 times a day, the average use of 25 minutes (click to see the report).

Whisper Monthly browsing volume is close to 3 billion times. A and B rounds of financing amounted to 3 million and 15 million dollars respectively (click to see Report).

Distractify: Next popular media site?

  

Distractify mainly through the network a large number of viral dissemination of popular news to attract readers eyeball, style similar to Buzzfee (GIF dynamic map site) and Upworthy (Picture social site). According to Google Analytics, after the launch of the site from November, the number of independent visitors has exceeded 21 million.

Popular news includes: Whites Family,photos of all time.

The next step is to introduce more original content, including local advertising, to expand revenue.

Assembly: Software Development crowdsourcing

Every month assembly picks an idea and develops it into app, which makes assembly look like a VC company, but the service is mainly to speed up the operation of the app.

Anyone can come to assembly to try their luck as long as they have the idea of creating a mobile app or web App. Online communities voted for the most promising app and the green light for the project. Any participant on the platform can join the app project and donate it. On a monthly basis, the platform will return the proceeds to the investors, and the profits will be apportioned to the partners according to the investment.

(via BI translation/fast carp)

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