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Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. One of the principal concepts of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are only available for a short time before they become inaccessible. It is known that the founders of the startup refused to sell their offspring Facebook for $3 billion. Today, the cost of this application has increased to $15 billion. It is noted that the founders of the service are still going to enter the stock exchange in the near future.

Tinder is a location-based social search mobile app that facilitates communication between mutually interested users, allowing matched users to chat. The app is most commonly used as a dating app, but has branched out to provide more services, making it more of a general social media application. Matching is based on Facebook and Spotify profiles. Originally incubated inside Hatch Labs, the app was launched in 2012, and by 2014 it was registering about one billion "swipes" per day. Tinder is among the first "swiping apps", where the user uses a swiping motion to choose between the photos of other users: swiping right for potentially good matches and swiping left on a photo to move to the next one. It is noted that Tinder is used by more than 50 million people, and the cost of the service is estimated at $1 billion. It is known that the Match Group, which owns this start-up, is going to enter the stock exchange by the end of the year.

Another young and successful technological startup is BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed is an American internet media company based in New York City. The firm is a social news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media and digital technology, with a mission to provide the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video. In Russia there is an analogue of this service – Adme.ru. It is known that the initial investment in the service amounted to $250 million, but today the online magazine is estimated at $1.5 billion.

The popular Jawbone fitness bracelets have made a lot of fuss. The fitness bracelet Jawbone UP24 gives insights into the sleeping habits, movement habits and in the dietary habits and support the people on their way to an active and healthy life. Here, the fitness bracelet Jawbone UP24 stands out as a comprehensive fitness and nutrition coach for the wrist. Worn, the fitness bracelet 24 hours a day. It is prepared to tracken all activities in sports and in everyday life as well as sleep patterns and therefrom to generate statistics. These statistics compiled will then help that you can live healthier.

Lyft is a young startup and a competitor to Uber, today is also gaining momentum. Lyft is a transportation network based in San Francisco, California. It develops, markets and operates the Lyft car transportation mobile app. Launched in June 2012, Lyft operates in approximately 300 U.S. Cities, including New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles and provides 18.7 million rides a month. Users celebrate an unusual brand logo: pink mustache, which decorate the cars of this service. Over the past year, the start-up has managed to earn $130 million, and today it is estimated at $2.5 billion.

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. However, with such a high assessment the aerospace company is not doing very well this year: last summer the Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon truck, produced by Mask, exploded directly on the start of the test. But it does not stop the startup to increase the army of fans who are confident that SpaceX will eventually be able to create a private space fleet.

Slack is a cloud-based set of team collaboration tools and services, founded by Stewart Butterfield. Slack began as an internal tool used by their company, Tiny Speck, in the development of Glitch, a now defunct online game. The name is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge". It is known that the daily audience of the service totals about 1.1 million users. It is known that the daily audience of the service totals about 1.1 million users. Slack advertises itself as a freemium product available for an unlimited number of users, but it was reported by Quincy Larson that the limit is actually 8,462 users per channel. Users can upgrade to various paid versions to gain access to larger channels, or additional features. Today this technological start-up is estimated at $ 2.8 billion.