Community Startups

Pensil is a community platform that provides live session hosting, webinar capabilities, and community management tools with integrated video streaming and recording features. The platform serves organizations building online communities across education, nonprofits, and freelancer networks.

1 investor

Playmaker operates a community platform for fantasy sports enthusiasts, offering a centralized social hub where players can build their identity, connect with peers, and enhance their engagement while watching live sports.

1 investor

Plura is an event discovery and community platform that helps people attend social events in their city and connect with other attendees before, during, and after events. The platform serves event organizers and event attendees seeking in-person social connections.

1 investor

Pools is a memberships platform that helps event organizers in art, music, and other cultural communities build memberships tied to their events. It uses the ticket sales checkout to upsell attendees into memberships that offer automated discounts, advance access, or members-only benefits.

1 investor

Quest is a question-and-answer platform where professionals share career guidance through recorded audio responses, featuring practitioners from startups and established technology companies.

1 investor

The Recurse Center runs a self-directed educational retreat for programmers of all experience levels who want to improve their skills, funded through an integrated recruiting agency that offers optional personalized recruiting services to community members seeking new jobs.

1 investor

Rhythmm is a social app for sharing and following thoughts and conversations through channels, where invited participants contribute while others follow along. It aims to surface curated insights from expert chat groups without the noise of platforms like Telegram.

1 investor

Thunderpod provides a no-code engagement management system for workplaces and communities to interact with and mobilize their members.

1 investor

Tress is a mobile social community app where Black women discover and share hairstyle inspiration, including details like the salon or stylist, hair products and extensions used, and price range. Users create profiles, upload their hairstyles, and follow, like, and comment on each other's posts.

1 investor

Women Who Code (WWCode) is an international nonprofit that supports women and historically excluded people in technology careers through free events, a global member community, scholarships, and skill-building programs. It operates across 147 countries with a membership of more than 320,000 and offers a tech job board.

1 investor

Zidisha is a crowdfunding platform that connects low-income entrepreneurs in Africa and Asia with backers worldwide who fund their small-business projects. Instead of repaying as loans, funded entrepreneurs "pay it forward" by funding other entrepreneurs on the platform, and backers interact with entrepreneurs directly through chat, photos, and project updates.

1 investor