Social Startups

Bitesight is a short-form video platform for discovering and ordering meals, combining food discovery with direct ordering capabilities.

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Blacklight Software develops classic social multiplayer mobile games, including digital versions of Ludo, Carrom, and Callbreak. Its games let players compete and connect with friends and other players online through features like voice chat and multiplayer rooms.

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Blacktag operates a global platform and exclusive network connecting Black creators — including artists, photographers, designers, and musicians — with brand partners, and produces original content. It also runs creator grants and brand collaboration programs.

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Blindmate is a dating and matchmaking app that relies on people's friends acting as matchmakers to find compatible partners, rather than an automated algorithm. It targets consumers seeking dating connections.

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Bluesky is an open, decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol (atproto), offering users customizable feeds, moderation tools, and a portable identity across platforms. It provides open-source infrastructure and public APIs for developers to build clients, bots, custom feeds, and other applications on top of the network.

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Bonfire Apps builds Cray Cray, a mobile app for couples that offers games and interactive features to help partners communicate and stay connected. The consumer relationship app is aimed at couples seeking to deepen and maintain their romantic relationships.

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Bookclubs is an app for organizing book clubs, offering scheduling and RSVP logistics, personal reading tracking, and book recommendations in one place. It serves book club organizers and members.

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Booksloth is a book discovery app that gives readers personalized book recommendations and lets them rate titles by elements like characters and worldbuilding. It also offers social features for readers to join discussions, chat, ask questions, and share recommendations with others.

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Boom Corp is a mobile games studio that develops games focused on communities, social gameplay, and self-expression, including a title called Boom Slingers. The company is based in Tampere, Finland.

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Born builds AI characters designed to grow, evolve, and connect like humans, marketed as virtual friends and AI companions. The company has launched consumer social apps for mobile and is based in Berlin and New York City.

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Braindate is event technology that lets conference participants post discussion topics and book 1:1 or group conversations, with dashboards and analytics for organizers to track engagement and connections. It serves organizers of large events such as user conferences, sales kickoffs, and roadshows, integrating with existing event tech stacks.

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Breach is a gaming platform that aggregates game news, guides, releases, servers, jobs, and community posts organized by game, letting users save games and build a personalized feed. It also offers a card-based game (Breach Arena), Creator Mode for publishing gaming content, tools for indie projects, and job postings for studios to reach gaming talent.

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Bream is a social platform designed for women over 50 to form friendships and meaningful connections through affinity groups and shared experiences, both virtual and local.

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Bridesquad is a planning platform for bachelorette parties, bridal showers, and girls' trips that enables group collaboration on polls, events, expenses, and wishlists. The app serves women organizing pre-wedding celebrations and trips.

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Bump developed a mobile app that allowed users to share contact information and photos by physically tapping their phones together; the company was acquired by Google in 2013, where its unreleased photo application technology became the foundation for Google Photos.

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Bundeling offers a branded communication and information platform that centralises updates and enables interaction for members and employees, with segmentation by target groups. It serves organisations managing communities, and is used by over 1,300 organisations worldwide.

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Butterfly Social is an award-winning private members club and concierge service for affluent UAE residents, offering access to exclusive dining, events, travel, nightlife, and bespoke experiences through a members-only app and dedicated concierge team.

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Campfire is a mobile app (iOS and Android) that lets podcast fans join communities around their favorite shows, interact with other fans and hosts, and access exclusive bonus content. It targets podcast listeners and hosts in the German-speaking market.

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Campus is a mobile app for university students that provides class schedules, a chat feed for each university, reviews of professors and courses, student discounts, learning resources, and part-time job listings. It targets students in Russia looking to organize their studies and connect with classmates.

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Cantina is a platform for creating and interacting with AI-powered social characters that can chat, perform, and engage with users. Creators build and share these characters on a community-driven marketplace where they attract interactions and followers.

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Carbon Voice offers a mobile app for listening and replying to voice messages. The site provides iOS and Android downloads but gives little detail about the product beyond voice-based messaging.

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Care Options for Kids provides pediatric home health services, including in-home nursing and therapy, for children and their families. It also runs "The Village," an online community and social network where families can connect and share experiences related to pediatric care.

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SimplyCircle provides Konstella, a communication and volunteer-management service built for PTAs and PTOs to coordinate school events, share files, manage volunteer sign-ups, and connect parent communities. It serves parent-teacher organizations and school communities.

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