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1,536 startups as they appeared on Stompstart between 2014 and 2019, each with what we can verify about what happened next.
115 of 1,536 startups match · those with an image and a known outcome first, then by when they were first on Stompstart
Listed 19 February 2014 · San Francisco · California · United States
“Simply and easily build daily digest emails that keep your users engaged.”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A San Francisco tool for building automated daily digest emails, bought by analytics company Kissmetrics in 2016.
Marketing and sales
Listed 19 February 2014 · Amsterdam · Netherlands
“Tapfiliate is the fastest and easiest way to start with affiliate marketing”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
An Amsterdam tool for running an in-house affiliate program without costly software or servers, bought by the affiliate network Admitad in 2021.
Marketing and sales
Listed 20 February 2014 · Melbourne · Australia
“Contextual based support. Helping your users where and when they need it.”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A Melbourne tool that popped up help tips exactly where website users got stuck, bought by customer service software company Dixa in 2021.
Marketing and sales
Listed 21 February 2014 · San Francisco · California · United States
“Acompli empowers professionals to do more and defer less from mobile email.”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A San Francisco mobile email app that Microsoft bought in December 2014 and used as the code base for Outlook on iPhone and Android.
Productivity and collaboration
Listed 13 June 2014 · Pasadena · California · United States
“Honey is a free app that automatically applies coupon codes for online shoppers during checkout.”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A Pasadena browser extension that applied coupon codes at checkout, bought by PayPal in a roughly $4 billion deal that closed in January 2020.
Commerce and marketplaces
Listed 11 July 2014 · San Francisco · California · United States
“Track the value of your things”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
An app for cataloguing the value of everything you own that became an early on-demand insurance startup, then sold its technology to Travelers.
Finance
Listed 22 July 2014 · Vilnius · Lithuania
“Visual feedback for web design and development”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A Vilnius feedback tool that let teams pin comments on mockups and live websites, bought by design platform InVision in 2017.
DesignDeveloper tools
Listed 17 September 2014 · Noida · India
“Generate more leads, better leads”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A Noida tool for timing website pop-ups and lead forms to visitor behaviour, bought in 2016 by the company behind CarDekho.
Marketing and sales
Listed 12 October 2014 · Oslo · Norway
“Metercloud.io: Big data integation for smart grid, smart city and IOT delivered as OaaS.”
Acquiredas of 29 Sep 2026
An Oslo startup that sold cloud data integration to smart-meter utilities, bought by GE Vernova in 2023 to feed its GridOS grid software.
Climate and energyData and analytics
Listed 30 October 2014 · Southfield · Michigan · United States
“Magento Hosting, WordPress Web Hosting”
Mergedas of 28 Sep 2026
A Michigan web host dating to 2000 and tuned for Magento and WordPress, which joined Liquid Web in 2019 and later lent its name to the combined group.
Developer tools
Listed 30 October 2014 · Boston · Massachusetts · United States
“Yesware is an integrated sales toolkit.”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
Yesware put email tracking and sales templates inside Gmail and Outlook for sales teams, and Vendasta bought it in 2022.
Marketing and salesProductivity and collaboration
Listed 14 November 2014 · Sunnyvale · California · United States
“The Internet of Things begins with YOU.”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A Sunnyvale app that learned your daily routines to connect smart devices, places and people; its company was sold to Otonomo in 2021.
AI and agentsHardware
Listed 15 November 2014 · Sofia · Bulgaria
“Analytics & CRM for eCommerce”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A Sofia-built analytics and CRM tool for online stores that Sendinblue bought in 2021 and still sells under its own name.
Data and analyticsCommerce and marketplaces
Listed 22 November 2014 · New York · New York · United States
“Your life, centralized!”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A New York list-making app that turned its engine into a crisis response platform, then sold its assets to a business continuity company in 2022.
Productivity and collaboration
Listed 24 November 2014 · London · United Kingdom
“Quickly build compatible HTML emails”
Acquiredas of 29 Sep 2026
A London and Barcelona web app that turned an image of an email design into inbox-ready HTML, later folded into Venngage's newsletter tool.
Marketing and salesDesign
Listed 3 December 2014 · Oakland · California · United States
“Automatic Pricing for Your Airbnb”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
An Oakland pricing engine that automatically raised and lowered Airbnb nightly rates, until vacation rental manager Evolve bought its technology in 2018.
Travel
Listed 4 December 2014 · Nottingham · United Kingdom
“Multi-Carrier Shipping Software for Growing Businesses”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
Nottingham shipping software that gave small online sellers discounted multi-carrier rates, bought by Whistl in 2018 and now becoming Whistl Parcels.
Commerce and marketplaces
Listed 7 December 2014 · Cologne · Germany
“Live Chat Software for Websites”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
Userlike, a Cologne live chat tool for websites, was bought by Sweden's Lime Technologies in 2021 and renamed Lime Connect in 2025.
Marketing and sales
Listed 11 December 2014 · London · United Kingdom
“Your Supercharged Email Receipts”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
Receiptful turned e-commerce receipts into marketing emails, renamed itself Conversio and was bought by Campaign Monitor's parent in 2019.
Marketing and salesCommerce and marketplaces
Listed 14 December 2014 · Toronto · Canada
“Create beautiful product roadmaps in just a few minutes.”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A Toronto drag-and-drop roadmap builder for product managers, bought by Tempo in 2021 and still sold as Strategic Roadmaps.
Productivity and collaboration
Listed 16 December 2014 · Bellevue · Washington · United States
“Bring your customer demographics to life.”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A self-serve demographics tool for email lists from inome, the Bellevue people-data company known before and after as Intelius.
Marketing and salesData and analytics
Listed 18 December 2014 · Brisbane · Australia
“free in-browser video processing”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A Brisbane browser tool for converting and compressing video on your own machine in 2014, which Microsoft bought in 2021 and turned into Microsoft Clipchamp.
Media and entertainment
Listed 18 December 2014 · San Francisco · California · United States
“Business Dashboards. Done Right!”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A free dashboard app for small businesses that announced its closure in October 2016, then was rescued by an acquirer two months later.
Data and analytics
Listed 28 December 2014 · Milwaukee · Wisconsin · United States
“Professional Tools for Cryptocurrency Traders.”
Acquiredas of 28 Sep 2026
A Milwaukee dashboard for trading and charting on many crypto exchanges from one screen, bought in 2021 by Lightspeed Crypto, an affiliate of the brokerage group Lightspeed.
Finance