Social Startups

Reddit operates an online platform organized into interest-based communities where users post stories, links, images, and videos, then comment and vote on that content. It also offers advertising capabilities such as lead generation for businesses.

2 investors

Renren (Chengdu Renren Huyu Technology Co., Ltd.) operates Renren, a Chinese social networking website. The site is currently posting a service-upgrade notice while the platform undergoes a transition, stating that user data and privacy remain protected during the process.

2 investors

Rocky Road is building a social gaming network that connects gamers. The company is at an early growth stage and hiring.

2 investors

Root is a community platform offering modular apps—including a task tracker, event/raid planner, and social reaction tools—that let communities coordinate tasks, plan events, and build shared culture. It also provides a developer platform for building apps that run directly on Root without hosting, scaling, or security overhead.

2 investors

Rume provides video chat software designed to mimic the social dynamics of physical gatherings, allowing users to have breakout conversations and move freely between groups.

2 investors

Salt & Straw is an ice cream company that produces premium flavored ice cream, including specialty collaborations like the Tacolate, a cinnamon-ancho ice cream in a waffle cone taco with chocolate and puffed quinoa. The company operates scoop shops, offers mobile ordering, and ships products nationwide.

2 investors

Scanate/Fellow offered an API for invoice financing. The company operated in the fintech space.

2 investors

co:census is a research and design firm that conducts community engagement and transportation studies for cities and government agencies. The firm integrates social science and cultural competency with technology to ensure public projects incorporate community feedback into design outcomes.

2 investors

Rodeo is a social shopping platform that combines editorial content with creator-led discovery and seamless in-app commerce. The platform lets users browse styled products from creators and other shoppers, save picks, and purchase items directly without leaving the app.

2 investors

Shredspots offers a mobile app with a community-driven, continuously updated map that helps street sports athletes find spots to skate and perform tricks, searchable by obstacle, difficulty, and risk level. The app is maintained by its user community and plans to add an augmented reality gallery tied to real-world locations.

2 investors

Skout is a social platform operated by The Meet Group, Inc. The page does not provide sufficient detail about the company's specific products, services, or market focus.

2 investors

SmartPlaces is a geolocation-based social network where users earn token rewards for real-life social interactions, local events, and data monetization. The platform uses blockchain and NFT virtual land plots, includes AR-based geocaching and location-targeted airdrops, and will launch as a mobile app on Android and iOS.

2 investors

SoBet is a competitive social betting platform where users follow expert sports bettors ("cappers"), make picks, and compete on a weekly-resetting leaderboard for cash prizes via a subscription model. It serves sports betting fans and bettors, positioning itself as a community for sharing and tracking picks.

2 investors

Sociability is a UK-based app that provides accessibility information for public places, helping disabled people identify venues that meet their accessibility needs.

2 investors

Social First is a Finnish game studio developing a cross-platform social MMO intended to function as a social platform for players. The company is building an upcoming title slated for Early Access release.

2 investors

SocialToaster is a brand advocacy platform that helps organizations activate advocates—such as customers, employees, students, alumni, donors, and fans—to share content through their personal social networks. It offers a self-service tier for small teams, nonprofits, and startups, and a fully managed enterprise tier for large organizations, universities, and consumer brands, with content delivery, gamification, and analytics for measuring reach and earned media.

2 investors

Niokobok is an e-commerce platform in Senegal that enables young women to sell products on social media using its commerce infrastructure. The company serves both diaspora communities and local merchants in West Africa.

2 investors

Solice is a user-owned and user-built metaverse accessible through virtual reality as well as without a VR system, combining social, gaming, and crypto elements. Users can buy virtual land parcels during land sales to build their own spaces within the metaverse.

2 investors

SoundBetter is an online marketplace where musicians and artists hire music production professionals — including mixing and mastering engineers, singers, songwriters, producers, and session musicians — for remote collaboration. Users describe a project, receive proposals from vetted pros, and pay through the platform once work is completed.

2 investors

Sprout.place is a browser-based virtual space where up to 8 people can meet, collaborate, and hang out using resizable video "Facedock" frames, and can add images, documents, search blocks, and custom CSS to arrange a shared canvas. Spaces require no installation or sign-up and can be exported as HTML.

2 investors

Sprout Social offers a social media management platform with AI, automation, integrations and analytics tools for marketing teams. The product helps teams manage social content, customer interactions, workflows and performance reporting from a single platform.

2 investors

The Social Club operates modern barbershops grounded in barbershop culture, positioning itself as a community-focused gathering space for men. The company aims to bring people together across cultures and build belonging through a lifestyle brand centered on grooming, personal image, and social connection.

2 investors

Status is a decentralized mobile application that combines cryptocurrency wallet functionality, peer-to-peer messaging, and web browsing with privacy-focused features including end-to-end encryption and metadata privacy.

2 investors

Stema operates a community and platform for engineers in Italy, with a network of over 100,000 members, connecting them with job opportunities and career guidance. It presents company and role stories alongside job descriptions and offers career advice on topics like salary, consulting, and freelancing.

2 investors