Social Startups

Villie provides a shareable web page that lets expecting and new parents coordinate support from their community, including requests for gifts, donations, and help with tasks, plus features like multiple baby registries, group updates, and a gender reveal game. The free tool is aimed at parents wanting to organize help from family and friends.

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Vizify built tools that turned users' social media data into interactive infographics, graphical bios, cards, and videos. The company was acquired by Yahoo and sunset its consumer service in 2014.

2 investors

Voicy provides a Telegram bot that allows users to search for and share sound clips within Telegram chats. The bot enables users to discover and send audio content for entertainment purposes in group and direct conversations.

2 investors

Wakie is a social app built around voice phone calls, letting users talk with others and form friendships. People use it for conversations ranging from language practice to personal and mental-health topics, generating millions of calls and messages each month.

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Bilibili is a Chinese video-sharing platform where users upload, watch, and stream content including anime, games, music, films, documentaries, and live broadcasts. It also offers manga, courses, e-commerce for merchandise, and a membership program, serving a broad consumer audience in China.

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Warmspace builds technology that facilitates meaningful human connections through guided frameworks rooted in mindfulness, non-violent communication, and psychological practices. The platform enables individuals to engage in deeper, empathetic dialogues across personal, professional, and community contexts.

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Weave is an AI-assisted professional networking service that sends users a personalized professional introduction each week.

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Weilos runs a social app where people share fitness and weight-loss progress photos on a streaming newsfeed to find support and tips from others pursuing similar goals. The app includes a camera tool for taking aligned progress photos to track body transformations over time.

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WeMoms operates a mobile app and community for mothers and expectant mothers, covering topics from trying to conceive through parenting. It also offers brands a content/advertising product built on first-party conversational insights from its user base.

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WhatFriendsDo is a free online platform that helps people coordinate care and support for friends and family during crises such as illness, loss, new parenthood, or accidents. It also offers white-label solutions for organizations to support patients and employees, and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Whip is a mobile app that enables users to create interactive mini experiences and games directly on their phone without coding. The platform allows creators to share their creations with others, who can then play, remix, and build their own versions while discovering and collaborating with other builders.

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Whirlscape builds mobile keyboard and emoji products using deep learning and computational linguistics, drawing on human-computer interaction research. It is the maker of Dango, an emoji-focused keyboard tool.

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wikifolio is an online platform where users follow trading strategies published by traders and, in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, can buy wikifolio index certificates that track a trader's portfolio performance. It serves retail investors and traders across Europe with a social investing and portfolio-sharing community focused on European stocks.

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Women.com operates a consumer website for women featuring personality quizzes, trivia quizzes, and a closed Q&A community. It positions itself as an online destination for entertainment and lighthearted content.

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Xkit provides B2B SaaS developers with a single API to build deep integrations across their customers' CRM systems, including custom fields, objects, and workflows. It lets developers deliver CRM integrations with one build that works regardless of how each customer's CRM is configured.

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xTension is a live streaming DX service that enables audiences to send real-time emote reactions from their smartphones during live performances and events, displayed on stage to create engagement across both in-venue and live-viewing audiences. The platform also supports monetization through QR code-based premium emotes and fan merchandise integration.

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YAMAP is a hiking and outdoor app that shows a user's current location on trail maps even without cell signal, helping prevent getting lost. It also lets hikers create, save, and share records of their routes and photos, and connect with other users to discover trails.

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Yik Yak is an anonymous social app that lets users connect with people nearby, with a focus on college communities. It centers on location-based, anonymous conversations among people in the same area.

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YouTube is an online video-sharing platform where people can watch, upload, and share videos and build communities around their stories.

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Yup is a cross-posting tool that lets users publish a single post to multiple social platforms—including Twitter, Farcaster, Lens, and Bluesky—with one click. It targets social media users who maintain presences across several networks.

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Zoosk is a dating platform with over 60 million members that uses advanced filters and smart matchmaking algorithms to connect singles seeking serious, long-term relationships based on compatibility and shared values.

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Zya is a U.S. developer of mobile music creation software aimed at general consumers rather than trained musicians. Its Ditty app and underlying technology turn text and messages into personalized songs and videos, and the platform is also integrated into third-party products across web, mobile and gaming consoles.

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Axelmark is a Japanese company formed through mergers of several firms, operating in content, mobile advertising, and social gaming businesses. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market and traces its origins to firms founded in the 1990s.

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CAPSULE is a content marketing and creator management company that works with brands and creators across digital media platforms. The company helps brands optimize social media performance and connects emerging creators with major brands globally.

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