Social Startups
1,029 companies tagged Social, with their investors and founders.
Gym Class is a social gaming platform featuring sports games like basketball, baseball, boxing, football, paintball, and soccer available on Meta Quest VR and mobile. It serves millions of players globally who play, socialize, and share experiences within virtual reality and mobile communities.
2 investors
Hatena is a Japanese social bookmarking and blogging platform that aggregates user-curated content and discussions.
2 investors
Hedge is a US brokerage app that lets individuals invest on their own or form groups with family and friends to propose, discuss, and vote on investments in US exchange-listed stocks and ETFs. It targets first-time and underserved retail investors with no accreditation required and a low minimum investment.
2 investors
HER is a dating app designed for lesbian, bisexual, queer, nonbinary and trans people that prioritizes safety, intentional connections, and community features. The platform provides identity expression tools, event coordination, and matching capabilities tailored to the sapphic community.
2 investors
Herb is an online cannabis community and content platform that curates cannabis products, strains information, how-to guides, and local experiences for its members. It targets Millennial and Gen Z audiences and partners with cannabis brands to help users discover products and culture.
2 investors
Highnote is a platform where artists and their communities upload audio to private spaces to chat, react, and share timestamped commentary around works-in-progress and unreleased music. It also offers music storage, transfer, and review workflow tools for artists, engineers, and labels.
2 investors
Higlo builds technology and a hardware device ("Hearth") designed for families to share and stay connected across distances, using one shared account for all ages rather than individual-focused products. It targets families, including the roughly 2 billion people living far from their relatives, as an alternative to individualistic social media and consumer tech.
2 investors
Hiki is a mobile app designed for autistic, ADHD, and neurodivergent individuals to find friendships and romantic relationships. The platform was built by and for neurodivergent adults.
2 investors
Hive indexes and ranks Twitter accounts by community, identifying notable figures within communities based on follower networks and social graph analysis. The platform surfaces community membership and relative influence across approximately 40 million indexed accounts.
2 investors
Hivebrite offers AI agents and smart features for community management platforms, handling tasks like content moderation, member matching, analytics, and plain-language search. Its tools help community teams reduce routine work while giving members recommendations, content summaries, and profile-building assistance.
2 investors
Hyper provides avatar and AI storytelling tools that enable consumers to create their own content and experiences, positioning itself in the creator economy space.
2 investors
Impact Circle builds a global team of experts in business development, microfinance, and governance to create social impact in both Japan and emerging markets.
2 investors
Influencity is a platform for discovering, managing, and analyzing influencer marketing campaigns, with features for social media management, social listening, and community engagement across 200M+ creators and 100M+ content sources.
2 investors
Já Entendi converts corporate training materials such as manuals and handbooks into video lessons, using an instructional methodology aimed at workers with low formal education. It offers online corporate education courses, including workplace safety training, delivered through its e-learning platform.
2 investors
Jemi was a no-code website and store builder that let creators launch branded online shops and sell merch and experiences.
2 investors
Jest is a messaging app that can be used in a web browser and lets users sign up with a text message. The platform also promotes casual mobile games such as trivia battles and match-3 puzzles.
2 investors
Kakao Corp. operates a suite of consumer internet services centered on the KakaoTalk messenger, along with KakaoMap, mobile gifting and shopping (Kakao Talk Gift, Talk Deal), Kakao Makers, Kakao Friends characters, and emoticons. The South Korean company also develops AI technology across its services.
2 investors
Karma3 Labs builds a decentralized, onchain reputation and trust protocol for the open web, working with crypto protocols and developers to create reputation systems for their applications. The protocol targets decentralized governance, social networks, and marketplaces built on crypto rails.
2 investors
Known is a dating and relationship app built around understanding the user first rather than emphasizing profile swipes and likes. It positions itself as an alternative to conventional dating apps for people seeking meaningful connections.
2 investors
Kosmi is a free platform for group video watch parties, gaming sessions, and virtual hangouts that integrates with popular streaming services and games. It serves long-distance friends, couples, and remote teams seeking a unified space for shared entertainment and communication.
2 investors
A free skateboarding archive built and operated by skateboarders as part of OpenSB. The platform preserves skateboarding-related content and materials for the skateboarding community.
2 investors
Kyndoo operates a US-based platform built for social media influencers who want to run their content work as a business. It combines audience and performance data, profile-building tools, payment protection and business consulting, and gives brands data they can use to verify that an influencer's following is genuine.
2 investors
Laurels is a platform that connects corporate teams with nonprofits to enable skilled professionals to contribute pro bono services and solve real problems. The service aims to help companies embed purpose-driven work into their culture while strengthening nonprofits' operational capacity.
2 investors
Levellr is a Discord community intelligence platform that turns unstructured Discord conversations into structured, cited insights through a preprocessing pipeline and AI analysis, covering sentiment analysis, member segmentation, engagement reporting, keyword tracking, and content scheduling. It serves game studios, music labels, marketing teams, community managers, AI/SaaS companies, and consumer brands.
2 investors