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This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Loyalty Programs startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Loyalty Programs industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Loyalty Programs Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Trolley
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Trolley is a platform for businesses to get all the functionality of a mobile app without the high costs and difficult systems integration.
Zeal Rewards
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Get rewarded from your favorite places! Gathering all paper loyalty cards into one application. We bring you a selection of great rewards from some lovely independent retailers across Egypt & UK.
All you need to do is download the app and keep shopping at the places you love. How it works: * Discover merchants near you that offer Zeal.
* Get a punch on your card every time you spend the minimum charge. * Redeem rewards whenever you want! * Birthday rewards from the places you love..
Bitback
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Bitback, a Techstars portfolio company (20′) and former IDEO CoLab resident (19′), is the cashback rewards platform connecting young people and retailers across Africa. We are on a mission to put money back into the pockets of young people around the globe.
Users earn cash back for each and every purchase they make from their favourite retailers through the Bitback app. Merchants and service providers are able to reach and retain young consumers through special offers and rewards.
Bitback’s vision is to create new income streams for young people and to fuel their entrepreneurial spirits.. .
Loyalize
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Loyalize is a white label engagement platform for retailers and financial institutions that combines payment and loyalty into a single transaction. With no requirement for POS integration, Loyalize can be activated in minutes, providing businesses with rich insights on customer purchasing behaviours for more effective marketing.
Combining speed, data accuracy and data transparency, our technology provides loyalty teams with a real-time, omnichannel view of customer transactions and purchasing behaviours, allowing them to create segmented, targeted offers and campaigns. Where required, Loyalize can incorporate basket-level SKU data via a simple POS plug-in.
For in-store activity, Loyalize cuts transaction time at the checkout by eliminating the need to scan plastic loyalty cards or codes. As a result, businesses can reduce the cost of producing and managing these systems.
Customers benefit from personalised, frictionless shopping experiences. By adding their payment card to a retailer’s existing loyalty programme, they automatically get rewarded for every purchase they make, online and in store.
With Loyalize, carrying plastic loyalty cards or downloading apps to scan codes becomes a thing of the past.. .
Tax Buddy App
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Tax Buddy App is a loyalty rewards program app that provides property tax relief to homeowners.
Happy Joe
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Unlocking the power of food. Happy Joe revolutionises nutrition, making it easy & accessible.
Fidly
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Use our plug & play solution Fidly and bring high engagement & value for your consumers on behalf of blockchain technology& a powerful loyalty program. Reduce management costs and increase customer satisfaction by enabling program interoperability and exchanges in our loyalty ecosystem.
Quite often, consumers never redeem their points, as they might ignore how many they have or what could be their rewards. We aim to solve this issue by allowing cross program exchange but also between consumers, ending by the possibility to convert loyalty tokens into crypto assets or Fiat currency in a secure digital wallet.
The implementation of blockchain can drive the customer experience to the next level, indeed we are a B.A.A.S (Blockchain as a service) and reshapes rewards program for a better user experience. On the first hand we help companies decrease costs regarding management, transactional, and customer acquisition, giving a strong, secure and reliable blockchain infrastructure in a non volatile ecosystem.
On the other hand we tokenized loyalty points from any programs using blockchain technology, by giving the opportunity to consumers to give, sell & exchange loyalty points with full transparency on the blockchain network on behalf of smart contract. Customers manage all their loyalty in the same wallet real time, making it accessible for all parties.
Blockchain is the perfect bridge to convert loyalty programs into a strong business opportunity for brands and cities. Our vision is to provide a unique blockchain technology in the loyalty industry, helping companies increase customer engagement & satisfaction, decreasing loyalty program friction by giving powerful rewards on behalf of tokenization.
We give brands powerful marketing features, transparency, and a plug & play solution, maximizing retention & acquisition and decreasing management costs ,making it profitable for the entire ecosystem.. .
Hayatech
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Hayatech is a SAAS and connected hardware platform that fosters an ecosystem around wellness through wearables, gamification, and rewards.
Katalyst Financial Ltd.
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We are industry experts in designing bespoke insurance solutions. Our offering is far from off the shelf – we work with our clients and partners to tailor products and distribution to their exact needs.
We look to use insurance products to help our partners build customer loyalty and enhance their core offering. In addition, we can of course provide more traditional insurance offerings where we specialise in large volume schemes..
Penny Pinch
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Penny Pinch Inc. is an award-winning, financial technology company that was established in St.
Lucia in 2019 and is licensed under the Money Services Business Act and regulated by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of St. Lucia.
It is the most advanced consumer mobile application in the Caribbean, offering digital coupons, loyalty rewards, cash back, and more centered around a powerful digital wallet that consumers use to make cashless payments to merchants as well as instant person-to-person (P2P) transfers. Think RetailMeNot meets Cash App! Despite being established in St.
Lucia, Penny Pinch does not intend to limit its growth to the subregion. Making prodigious strides in the Caribbean fintech industry, Penny Pinch is determined to impact the world during this pandemic and beyond.
The Penny Pinch mobile application enables users to simply top up their digital wallets using their debit/credit cards, then make physical purchases using their smartphones at any of the Penny Pinch partner merchants without any direct physical contact. Payments are made by a cashier simply scanning a QR code on a customer’s Penny Pinch digital wallet.
“We are proud to be one of the few companies that present both an innovative and safe way for people to make payments. However with the Penny Pinch app, they still get to enjoy the physical experience of shopping but with a major Covid-19 high exposure risk eliminated which is the direct contact with cash or credit card to make payments when they’re physically at a merchant” explains the Founder and CEO of Penny Pinch, Martin Hanna.
Octillion Media
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Octillion Media is a Digital Media company.
getFOUND Events
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getFOUND Events is a unique new way to promote your business and events. We are not an event hosting company, we are a community marketplace offering a network of community style spaces with optional shop integration for the promotion of events, and event related services and products.
Our platform was designed to give the small business event professional a competitive edge. We invite photographers, musicians, catering services, freelance bartenders, entertainers, florist, event planners, party planners, djs, singers, artist, entertainers, balloon artist, specialty bakers, makers of birthday and wedding cakes, you get the idea!.
Boonus
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Boonus is a leading CRM and customer loyalty platform for micro to medium local businesses. Through technology, its mission is to help businesses and communities make more benefit from each other.
Boonus is an interactive rewarding platform with many partners showing their loyalty programs to a wide range of customers to enroll in them as fast as they can say their mobile number. With our variety of loyalty programs (points, perks, stamps, frequency, and more) in a single mobile app, customers are happier and more engaging with their favorite places.
While business owners can contact their customers or ask them to rate the service too. The company got incubated in the “Taqadam Accelerator Program”, by KAUST in its early days..
Loving Local
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Loving Local is a customer loyalty and marketing platform for local businesses and the communities they serve.
Go See The City
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G.O. See The City is an innovative technology-driven initiative that provides businesses and cities consumer analytics.
GSTC is designed to encourage engagement and exploration of a municipality by and between businesses, residents, tourists, and local government. GSTC is designed to encourage tourists to explore areas beyond the region’s more well-known tourist destinations, to help spread attraction, visibility, and increase overall business activity throughout the region.
GSTC simultaneously encourages and incentivize locals within the region to venture outside of their neighborhood to discover local businesses throughout the city. Their contribution, along with tourists will assist with fostering economic development and creating community brand loyalty throughout the region..
OFFERAYA
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OfferAya is India’s first unique coupon wallet for shoppers in Pune with 100+ offline stores offering exclusive complimentary discount coupons and great deals around your location. The most exceptional feature of OfferAya is the Reward Program which helps you to earn rewards even when your friends spend at our partner offline stores.
Use these rewards to buy more services and experiences. Through our business partnership programs, we help offline stores increase their revenue, create brand awareness, and expand its reach.
Our network includes a wide range of merchants and strategic companies and we aim to cross-promote each other in providing the best deals to the end-consumer. In the end, it’s all about helping our users save on everything!.
BridgeLogic
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BridgeLogic is a Software as a Service company offering WiFi marketing, advertising and analytics platforms for physical spaces.
TapAlly
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TapAlly is an online platform to exchange referrals and make money.
MyntCoinz
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BaaS (Blockchain as a Service) platform for loyalty rewards
Coloyal
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Coloyal develops individual software solutions for bonuses and incentive programs for B2B, B2C, and B2E business partners.
Willow Ridge Digital
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A business to consumer digital marketing agency designing and implementing multichannel customer retention campaigns.
