Social Startups

Danger Testing is a studio that produces a large collection of experimental, novelty mobile and web apps and interactive games, many centered on internet culture, memes, and celebrities. Products range from multiplayer games and generators to camera-based social apps.

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Dara is a community platform that provides channels, events, and member directories for groups of people working together across different countries. The platform emphasizes privacy, authentic communication through audio, text, and video, and supports community-building for change-makers and cultural organizations.

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Dating Ring was a matchmaking service that connected members for dating. The company operated for five years before closing in August 2018.

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DatingCafe is an online dating platform and singles marketplace where members create profiles, search for compatible partners, and connect through features like photo flirting, personality questionnaires, direct messaging, and video dates. It serves singles in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with a focus on people aged 35 and older, and verifies profiles using ID checks, editorial review, and AI.

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Deluux provides infrastructure for individuals to host their online identity and social presence on independent websites rather than within centralized social platforms, with tools to distribute personalized content across the web.

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Detecht is a mobile app for motorcyclists that provides automatic crash detection, which alerts the user's safety contacts with their location in case of an accident. It also offers trip planning, turn-by-turn navigation, ride statistics, and a community for sharing routes and tips.

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/dev/color is a career accelerator and community organization for Black software engineers, technologists, and executives. It provides peer mentorship programs, professional development, and accountability partnerships for tech companies committed to racial equity and representation in engineering leadership.

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Dharmalife is a social impact organisation founded in 2009 that trains rural women in India as entrepreneurs (Dharma Life Entrepreneurs) to distribute socially impactful products and services to rural households. It operates through a not-for-profit, a foundation, and a for-profit last-mile distribution arm, focusing on livelihoods, behaviour change, and women's economic independence in rural India.

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Differ is an online platform with web, mobile, and desktop applications operated by EdTech Foundry AS that lets users create, post, and share content and messages with other users. The service is used for communication and content sharing within organizations and communities.

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Digipals creates an AI-powered social platform that consolidates friend communications and connections across multiple apps using ambient AI agents that draw from location, calendar, and photo data to facilitate interactions in group chats.

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Dimensional is a personality assessment app that measures over 200 traits across 15 dimensions to generate personal profiles. It also lets users compare personalities and explore compatibility across relationships.

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Diverting Hate is an applied research nonprofit working to counter online radicalization by detecting real-time trends that lead young men toward hostility and redirecting them to healthier communities and resources. It also measures behavioral change and advocates for structural reform to protect boys and men.

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A photo-sharing service that allows users to upload and distribute uncompressed images to their social contacts.

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Dojo is a consumer app for discovering local experiences and events, connecting users with people nearby, and finding activities to attend.

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Dollyglot builds AI companies designed from inception with autonomous AI agents at their core, delivering real-time avatar technology and foundational AI models to create fully integrated AI-native organizations that automate business functions across coding, customer support, marketing, and operations.

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Dots is a no-code automation platform for online communities, offering a flow builder for onboarding and support, analytics on member engagement, and CRM features. It serves community leaders, with support for platforms such as Discord.

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DotsNet is an AI-powered community operating system that analyzes members' real-time intent from Journals and an asks/offers marketplace to make double-opt-in introductions, share knowledge via its TLDR Hub, and surface private career opportunities. It serves professional communities, alumni networks, university career centers, and founder communities, and lets business-plan users integrate their own AI agents.

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E-Guardian is a Japanese company providing online content moderation, community monitoring, customer support, cybersecurity, and related operational services. It serves businesses operating websites, apps, and online communities, and is publicly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime market.

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EME Hive is a dating and livestreaming app focused on the Asian and Asian-American community in North America, offering profile browsing, matching, video chat, and live streaming. It provides a proprietary weekly one-to-one matching system with profile options catered to cultural background, languages, and interests.

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EatSleepRIDE is a community platform for motorcycle enthusiasts that combines social networking features with tools tailored to riders. The platform enables users to exchange information, ideas, and knowledge about motorcycles while making connections with other riders.

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eBrandValue provides real-time social-engagement analytics software that analyzes brand conversations, market share fluctuations, and consumer switching behavior to deliver marketing insights and predict sales trends. The platform serves marketing executives and consumer brand companies seeking early market intelligence and campaign performance measurement.

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Egab is a network connecting 3,000+ journalists and experts across 100+ countries with international newsrooms, consulting firms, and organizations seeking on-the-ground reporting and local perspectives from the Global Majority. It handles pitch review, story commissioning, payments, expert matching, and primary data collection from hard-to-reach communities.

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Eigen is developing an AI-based "mutual friend" designed to help people connect, belong, and grow together, aiming to add unpredictable, human-like social experiences that current personalized technology lacks. The product is positioned in the consumer AI and social space.

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