The 13 Most promising projects this year

BusinessInsider, a well-known US science and technology blogger, recently published a number of new hot startups in 2013, and looking ahead to 2014, some startups are hoping to have a major impact on their ecosystems, with the following being among the top 13.

1, Birdi is chasing nest

Despite our preference for Nest, Birdi seems to be making significant progress in the market for intelligent smoking and air quality monitoring. Similar to nest Protect, birdi can also monitor carbon monoxide and issue a warning to provide emergency response services via smartphone applications. Birdi can also detect various other elements of your home air so that you can monitor the quality of the air you breathe.

So far, the Birdi has raised $25473 trillion in funding through the launch of a $50,000 trillion program in the Indiegogo platform.

2, Circle Internet Financial is trying to promote the Bitcoin into a mainstream payment currency

Online payment Platform Circle Internet Financial (hereinafter referred to as "Circle") is expected to facilitate the use of Bitcoin for businesses and individuals. Because of the low cost, high security and privacy of bitcoin online payment, individual consumers and enterprises have become more and more interested in Bitcoin.

In October 2013, the platform received 9 million dollars in financing, and the investor for this financing was Jim Breyer, Accel and Genaral Catalyst. Circle is headquartered in Boston, United States, and currently has an international operations headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

3, 2014 is the key to the success of Snapchat year

Snapchat CEO Evan Spigger

2013 was the year of Snapchat shocks, but 2014 may be the year of the company's final production earnings. Snapchat has a large user base, although it is still less than Instagram for total downloads and monthly active users. Today, Snapchat users have exceeded the 400 million mark per day of photo sharing. The figure for September 2012 was 350 million, and April 2013 was only 200 million.

According to media reports, Snapchat also rejected a 3 billion-dollar takeover offer from Facebook and a 4 billion-dollar takeover offer from Google. Snapshot founder Evan Spiegel (Evan Spiegel) and Bobby Melfi (Bobby Murphy) were accused by Stanford University classmate Reggy Brown (Reggie Brown). Brown claimed that snapshot's creation was a plagiarism of his originality and filed a complaint with the court. To this end, Snapchat tried to reconcile with Brown twice.

4, Inside.com hopes to become the top ten U.S. website

Inside.com is another action by a well-known entrepreneur, Jensen Karakenis (Jason Calacanis), whose model is still in the secret state, but according to its Twitter page, "will be truly first-class".

As of November 2013, Inside.com has completed tests for only 15 members, and this month will expand the test membership to 100.

"All I have to say is that you can imagine how good it would be, such as the inside.com/structure and how to get the topic information," Karakenis said to the media earlier. ”

Born on November 28, 1970, Caracaini is an internet entrepreneur and blogger in the United States. His greatest success was the creation of the Weblogs company, which was acquired by AOL in 2005. Before creating weblogs, he was the founder and CEO of Dr. Tide UBM, a media company engaged in traditional and online publishing.

5, Ambro hope that the meal can be as convenient as breathing

Ambro, a Finnish food start-up company, is offering a product to people who care about their health and are enterprising. Ambro is a liquid based organic meal that meets the nutritional needs of the day, but can be prepared in just two minutes before eating.

So far, Ambro in Europe and North America will provide services to 120 paid users. The company expects its products to be shipped from February 2014 onwards.

6. Clinkle may become the next great start-up enterprise in the Pay field

Clinkle CEO, founder Lucas Douplain

Lucas Douplain (Lucas Duplan), who started mobile payment company Clinkle at Stanford University in Computer Science, received 25 million dollars in seed money investment in 2012, the largest investment in Silicon Valley in its history as a seed fund.

As early as 19 years old, he and Stanford University a group of students and graduates began to create the company. Since then, some participants have withdrawn, but in order to be able to work wholeheartedly in Clinkle, Douplain graduated a year early from Stanford University. However, 2013 was not flat, and by the end of the year clinkle layoffs of about One-fourth.

7, Lyft will stride forward

Taxi application Lyft is growing rapidly, and it has become a major choice for some urban dwellers with a sense of cost savings.

Lyft recently decided to abandon the donation model in California instead of charging. The taxi-sharing service was originally built on a donation basis because it was not legally possible to share a taxi charge in California. But as of September 2013, the California Open Business Council legalized taxi services, and Lyft thus made the transition to the business model described.

Since then, Lyft has extended services to the eastern Gulf of San Francisco, from the city of Oakland in western California and Castro, to the suburbs of Los Angeles like Pasadena and Malibu.

8. Oscar hopes to revolutionize the health care industry

Oscar, a health-care start-up in New York, is trying to overhaul the health insurance industry. Joshua Kushner, the company's chief executive, Yas Kushna, in an attempt to launch Oscar, has quietly hired 25 employees-including computer scientist Mario Schrossel Mario Schlosser-and raised 40 million of dollars in investment.

Oscar will become a strong insurance company, able to compete with Aetna, Unitedheath and other well-known entities. In the fall of 2013, Oscar began registering for those New Yorkers who sought insurance under the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act). Oscar prepares to launch in January 2014.

9. Coin attempts to redefine the way we use credit cards

is coin by Y Combinator and Google Wallet's former executives, hoping to provide a solution that integrates the credit cards, debit cards, bonus points and other types of cards that we now use. Coin has not yet been introduced, but it seems to need to solve some problems to persuade users to accept. For example, if your cell phone battery is out of charge, coin should stop working.

All in all, it may take a hard time to get the retailer to accept it.

10, level money similar personal financial management application Mint

level has become a handy tool for managing your budget easily. The application automatically manages your money bag after you spend it, and finances your money bag this month, this week, and the day. The level, created jointly by Visa's former global emerging product business manager, has received a first round of funding of $5 million, which was funded by Kleiner Perkins, a former senior Citi Executive Weill (Sandy Weill).

11, Whisper may become the next big acquisition target

Whisper is an anonymous, private-sharing application that has been hugely successful in practice. From the moment it was launched, users used the application 8 to 10 times a day, averaging as much as 25 minutes a day.

Now, Whisper's monthly page views are close to 3 billion, and 25 million of dollars have been invested in Snapchat early investor Lightspeed and other investors.

12, Distractify may become the next important media site

Distractify similar to BuzzFeed and Upworthy, the site has a large number of viral spread of popular news. According to Distractify, data from Google Analytics show that the site reached 21 million independent visitors a month when it was launched last November.

Distractify will combine original news and repackaging content to improve communication. Along the way, he hopes to hire creative talent, expand products and move into local advertising, the founder of the website said.

13, assembly hope that crowdsourcing software development industry

every month, the assembly community chooses an amazing application idea. This is somewhat akin to VC companies, but the capital is used to drive the growth of applications.

Assembly allows anyone with a good idea for mobile applications or Web applications to participate, and the community will vote on the most promising user ideas and give them the green light. Anyone in the world can commit to the development of selected applications and contribute to it. Developers will also be rewarded for their income.

Assembly has long been one of the most exciting products, says a venture capital firm to BusinessInsider.