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The 2. 5 hottest San Francisco startups to watch in 2. Melia Robinson/Business Insider. Amid discussions about blood in the water and the impending doom and gloom of the startup ecosystem, there's plenty of great startups out there still poised to change the world. Business Insider talked to industry insiders, venture capitalists, and startup founders and looked at some fundraising data from Pitch. Book and CB Insights to derive this list of startups to watch in 2.

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To limit the list, we looked at companies founded in the last five years and narrowed it down to companies with a San Francisco headquarters — that excluded Palo Alto- , Mountain View- , and San Jose- based ventures. It's guaranteed to be an interesting year ahead, so here's the hottest startups in San Francisco to keep your eye on: Honor wants to reinvent how you take care of your elderly parents. What it is: While many other "on- demand care for seniors startups" rely on independent contractors, Honor flips the system on its head. The company launched in April 2. Unlike on- demand services like Uber and Lyft that let people accept jobs right away, Honor wants its home- care professionals, who start at $1.

In January 2. 01. Its model of taking care of not only the elderly, but also its caretakers, made Honor stand out among the new startups in San Francisco. Earlier this month, it was named Best New Startup at the Crunchies, the Oscars of startups. Founded: 2. 01. 4 by Sandy Jen, Cameron Ring, Monica Lo, and Seth Sternberg.

Funding: $2. 0 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Homebrew, and Kapor Capital. Checkr may be the big winner of the "gig economy."What it is: More companies are providing on- demand services carried out by independent contractors, who drop off your deliveries and drive you from place to place, and many of these have gone through Checkr. The company is poised to take advantage of the growing freelancer market by offering the same background checks offered by traditional firms, but quicker. Its background checks have become staples for companies like Uber, Handy, Instacart, and Grub. Hub. Checkr's background reports can be ready anywhere between a few hours and a couple of days, though most are ready within 2. Its background checks include address history, sex- offender searches, and Social Security- number verification, in addition to checking applicants' names against terrorist watch lists and crime databases. Founded: 2. 01. 4 by Jonathan Perichon and Daniel Yanisse.

Funding: $3. 9 million from Y Combinator, Accel Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Google Ventures among others. Gusto solves the payroll and benefits problems for small businesses.

What it is: Formerly known as Zen. Payroll, Gusto tries to help the headaches small businesses face by handling their insurance, payroll, and other human- resources tasks for them. Up until a few weeks ago, Gusto was known as the competitor to Zenefits, but in the past few weeks, Zenefits has faced a meltdown as its CEO resigned and regulatory issues were brought to light. That leaves a major opportunity open for Gusto, which has so far touted its industry compliance rather than skirted it.

Founded: 2. 01. 1 by Joshua Reeves, Edward Kim, and Tomer London Funding: $1. Google Capital, General Catalyst, Obvious Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Slack is doing away with email and changing how we work. What it is: Slack is a workplace- communication app that has taken the tech world by storm and wants to change the way businesses everywhere communicate. Slack does away with long email threads and gives users a group chat room. But this isn't a chat room from the days of AOL Instant Messenger. Slack lets users share files and work collaboratively, in addition to setting up private groups and sending direct messages to individual users. Founded: 2. 01. 3 by Stewart Butterfield. Slack was originally an internal tool used by Butterfield's team at Tiny Speck, the company that made the multiplayer game "Glitch," but Butterfield decided to spin it out into its own product and company.

The team started working on it at the end of 2. Funding: $3. 40 million from Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Social + Capital, KPCB, Google Ventures, Horizons Ventures, IVP, Spark, DST, and Index. Alt. School wants to change the education system. What it is: There's a lot of money being poured into reforming the education system, but Alt. School is a particular favorite in Silicon Valley. Alt. School creates a network of schools for kids in kindergarten through eighth- grade.

Each school, called a "microschool," has about 1. Alt. School wants to bring personalized learning to schools, but not just through putting a screen in front of a kid and pretending its customization.

Instead, Alt. School uses something called "playlists," which consist of a weekly mix of 2. Founded: 2. 01. 3 by Max Ventilla and Bharat Mediratta. Funding: $1. 37 million from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, and the Omidyar Network. Navdy will change how you drive. What it is: Navdy's tagline is "Feels like driving in the future" because it is. The South of Market- based startup created a heads- up display that sits on your dashboard and projects onto your windshield. When you're driving, the directions seem to magically appear on the road before you, telling you to turn left in half a mile or how fast you're going.

For drivers, not having to look down at your phone for directions could be a literal lifesaver. Founded: 2. 01. 3 by Doug Simpson and Karl Guttag. Funding: $3. 0 million from Upfront Ventures, Shervin Pishevar, Naval Ravikant, Eric Ries, and Brad Feld.

In a key election year, Brigade rallies people to vote. What it is: It's an election year, and Brigade is facing its make- or- break moment. In a bold attempt to try to engage a millennial class in politics, Brigade turns political discussions into an app. Instead of un- friending your high- school classmates on Facebook because of their political viewpoints, Brigade tries to identify friends or neighbors that you're most similar to so you can team up to sign petitions or champion causes you are passionate about.

It's earned the nickname "a Tinder for politics."But Brigade wants to do more than have its users hit agree or disagree on important issues. The company used interactive voting guides to draw millennials into local politics. Watch Sydney Download. Its users' opinions on a local San Francisco election accurately reflected — with one exception — how the voter base ended up voting in the polls. Founded: 2. 01. 4 by Sean Parker, Matt Mahan, John Thrall, James Windon, Jason Putorti, and Miche Capone. Funding: $9. 5 million from Sean Parker, Ron Conway, SV Angel, and Marc Benioff.

After School is an anonymous app teens are obsessed with. What it is: Normally being banned from the App Store would be the kiss of death for a company, but not for After School. The popular anonymity app lets teens send anything from messages to their crush to gossip to their friends. But anonymity and teens breed safety and cyberbullying problems — things After School wasn't prepared for when it launched in late 2. The app was taken off the App Store and its founders, Cory Levy and Michael Callahan, went back to work creating a new way to make a safe but anonymous place for teens. Since it relaunched in February, it's already caught back on with teens and raised new funding.

Founded: 2. 01. 4 by Callahan and Levy. Funding: $1. 7. 6. Accomplice, Naval Ravikant, and Cowboy Ventures, among others. What it is: In 2. The actual device is just a small part of its vision. At its launch, its investors compared it to the invention of the Netscape internet browser — no one forecast what would be built on top of it. The company wants its computer to be that baseline and have developers reimagine how bitcoin could change payments on the internet.

Founded: 2. 01. 3 by Nigel Drego, Daniel Firu, Veerban Kheterpal, Matthew Pauker, and Balaji Srinivasan.