Email Startups

While working on ZeroMail I come across most new startups in the email space. I’ve been keeping a list and figured, why keep it for myself, I might just as well share it.

Cloud Email Clients
http://zeromail.com (web, Gmail) – Email Done Right, personal assistant sorts out your email, 24/7
http://mail-pilot.com/ Adding some task management to your inbox
https://unifiedinbox.com/ – Inbox for teams, combining social media and email
http://www.roockit.com/ (Beta?)
http://www.dynado.com/ (Pre-launch)
http://minbox.co (pre-launch)

Mobile Email Clients
http://www.mailboxapp.com – (Gmail, iPhone) Minimalist email app (acquired by DropBox)
http://sparrowmailapp.com (Mac, Gmail, IMAP?) – Minimalist desktop client (acquired by Google)

Desktop Email Clients

http://mailplaneapp.com (Mac, Gmail) – Gmail inside a desktop app, adding some extra features
http://postbox-inc.com (Windows, Mac, Gmail, IMAP, POP3) – Powerful desktop email client
http://www.inbox2.com (Windows) – Open sourced desktop client
http://www.zimbra.com
http://www.emailtray.com/ (Windows, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, IMAP, POP3) – Multiple accounts and priority ranking

Concept Email Clients
http://personamail.info/ (Mac) – Concept email client

Social Media Profiles
http://www.xobni.com/ (Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo!)
http://rapportive.com/

Add-ons
http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ (Gmail, Outlook) – Delayed sending and track replies
http://www.rightinbox.com/ (Gmail) – Delayed sending
http://grexit.com/ – Shared folders for Google Apps
http://wishery.com/ – Sales and marketing features for Gmail
http://powerinbox.com/ – Rich apps inside your emails
http://www.fuser.com/ – Browser plug-in to check and action your email and social updates

Filtering
http://www.otherinbox.com/ (saas, Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL) – Filters your incoming email and creates daily summaries
http://www.sanebox.com/ (saas, Gmail, IMAP) – Filters your email on priority
http://www.boxbe.com/ – Bounce email from people you don’t know, unless they verify
http://www.mermailer.com/ – Filters your incoming email and creates summaries
http://www.zigmail.com/ – Filters your incoming email and creates daily summaries
http://glider.io – Filter out newsletters and notifications
https://www.philterit.com/ (Chrome sidebar) – Group your email by brand icons

Other
http://www.awayfind.com/ – Get notifications about important and urgent emails
http://www.unsubscribe.com/ – One click unsubscribe
http://www.unroll.me/
http://repliesapp.com/ (Mac) – Canned responses customer service app
http://courteous.ly/ (Gmail) – Show others how much your email load is
http://kwaga.com/ or http://writethat.name/ – Keeping your address book up to date by scanning signatures
http://toutapp.com – Track email deliveries and opens
http://www.wisestamp.com – Create email signatures
http://nutshellmail.com/ – Sends email summaries of your social network activity
http://www.taskforceapp.com/ – Turn emails into tasks
http://www.activeinboxhq.com/ – Plug-in that adds features to Gmail
http://www.0boxer.com/ – Adds game mechanics to doing your email, giving you points for replying and archiving
http://shortmail.com/ – Limit the size of incoming and outgoing emails to 500 characters
http://micromobs.com/ – You forward a group discussion to Micromobs and they make it look good
https://www.findbigmail.com/ – Find large emails in your gmail
http://www.followup.cc/ – Get followup reminders
http://www.followupthen.com/ – Get followup reminder by sending email to 2days@followupthen.com, etc
http://tray.io/ – Turns email into actions

Organization
https://www.cueup.com/ – Organize your emails that are event/date related on your mobile
http://www.tripit.com/ – Organize your flight, hotel and rental car confirmation emails
https://www.slice.com/ – Organize your receipts

API
http://context.io/ – Email API to create email applications

Deadpool
http://fluent.io (web, Gmail) – Email like a stream – Shut down
http://www.zenbe.com/mail_shutdown – Acquired by Facebook and shutdown
http://www.threadsy.com/ (Web) – Combines email and social media (acquired by Facebook, part sold to PeopleBrowsr)
http://liaise.com/ – Plug-in to outlook that automatically creates tasks while you type your emails

Which ones did I miss?