Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wish is a leading e-commerce platform, putting a digital shopping mall of affordable goods directly in the pockets of consumers worldwide. Wish employs big data principles, machine-learning, and state-of-the-art search technologies to create a highly-visual, entertaining, and personalized browsing experience for each user. The company leverages a…
Robinhood Financials is a stock brokerage application that democratizes access to the financial markets. The platform enables its customers to buy and sell U.S. stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The trading platform also aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application. Founded in 2013, Robinhood Financials is…
Postmates is an on-demand logistics provider. With more than 65,000 active Postmates, the company operates the largest on-demand delivery fleet in 44 major US metropolitan markets. Postmates' overall mission is to power local, on-demand logistics focused on fast deliveries from any type of merchant at scale. With collaborations with Starbucks, Chipotle, 7-Eleven, Walgreens and Apple,…
Palantir's mission is to solve the most important problems for the world's most important institutions. Palantir was founded in 2004 by a handful of PayPal alumni and Stanford computer scientists. Since then Palantir has doubled in size every year while retaining early-stage values: a startup culture, strong work ethic, and rigorous hiring standards.
Hydroponics are really becoming quite popular in the farming industry due to the fact they can produce premium local produce in both a safe and efficient manner. However we still felt that there is a lack of information available when it comes to learning about how these commercial scale operations work and what technologies they…
Airbnb is a community marketplace that connects travelers looking for unique accommodation and hosts looking to rent out their unused space. Airbnb has listings for every price point and every duration - "whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month." As of August 2014, it had…