Social Startups

AMIRA-Welt is an education and community platform for German pharmacy staff (PTA, PKA, PhiP and pharmacists), offering professional courses via its academy and campus, a magazine, surveys, and a subscription "AMIRA-Box" with OTC product samples to test. Membership is free and aimed at local pharmacy teams; the platform also serves partner brands and manufacturers.

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AmpMe is a mobile app that synchronizes multiple phones to play music simultaneously, letting users combine their devices into a portable, louder sound system.

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Anyvite is a free online service for creating event invitations and organizing groups, giving users tools to manage and communicate with attendees throughout an event's lifecycle. It serves consumers planning events and gatherings.

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Anywhere.fm is a web-based music service that lets users upload their personal music collection and play it from anywhere online through an iTunes-style player. It also includes social features such as user profiles and a Friend Radio tool for discovering new music.

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Arcade.ai is an online gaming platform offering games, cosmetics, and community features for players. Users can discover trending and new games, browse cosmetics, and create content.

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Argo is a video platform that enables creators and brands to monetize content, grow audiences, and offer rewards to supporters.

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Arooo operates a Korean-language online community and store where users post and discuss topics centered on sex, dating, and relationships from a women's perspective, alongside a shop selling related products such as toys and gels.

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Arsenic is a media and creator community platform that celebrates user-generated visual content and challenges traditional beauty standards by empowering creators to present themselves authentically without corporate or editorial direction.

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Family Up is a non-profit organization that channels family-related policy proposals to the Spanish administration and promotes family welfare through advocacy, education, and support programs. The organization works to strengthen families in the Valencian Community by providing practical tools, promoting work-life balance, and organizing voluntary support networks for vulnerable households.

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The Social Incubator is a Romanian nonprofit association that supports the social and professional integration of young people from vulnerable backgrounds through personalized services, mentorship, and entrepreneurship programs. Founded in 2014, it runs projects aimed at helping institutionalized and at-risk youth in Romania transition into adult life.

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Aspros provides support services for people with disabilities, mental health conditions, and elderly individuals throughout their life cycle, promoting social participation and independent living in their natural communities.

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Assorted Bits built a mobile calendar app for coordinating social activities with friends.

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Atly is a location discovery app that helps people find restaurants, bars, and places to visit through personalized recommendations and user-generated tips. The consumer platform has been described as combining social community content with map-based navigation.

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AudioDraft provides brand sound analysis and audits that enable companies to compare their audio branding with competitors and identify opportunities to improve how their brand sound resonates with audiences.

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AutoRadar is a mobile and web app for logging and sharing car spots on a map-based timeline, aimed at car spotting enthusiasts. Users can post spots, set alerts and filters, and view a community feed of recent sightings.

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AvatarLife is a Web3 metaverse platform where users create avatars, own virtual land, and trade digital assets on a blockchain-based marketplace. It offers over 80 games, premium memberships, and its own AVR$ token, targeting gamers, creators, and virtual world explorers.

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Awesometalk offers free video calling designed to be used without accounts, logins, or passwords. The product focuses on simple consumer communication.

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B/deshi is a community network that connects professionals of the Bangladeshi diaspora across fields, including the arts, to support each other, strengthen culture, and reinvest capital into the community. It organizes events in cities with sizable Bangladeshi populations across four continents.

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BahaiTeachings.org is an educational platform dedicated to sharing perspectives on Bahá'í teachings and their application in everyday life. The site serves individuals interested in exploring spiritual principles such as the elimination of prejudice, religious harmony, and gender equality within a global community framework.

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Bandcamp is a music platform that enables fans to create and share playlists of music they own from artists they support, with built-in artist compensation and discovery features. The service emphasizes direct artist support by requiring playlist creators to own tracks and limiting free sampling to encourage purchases.

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BarFlirt organizes in-person singles events in Swiss cities, seating participants together in bars for conversation and drinks, with a next-day online matching system that shares contact details when interest is mutual. It positions itself as an offline alternative to dating apps for singles in Switzerland.

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Based is a prediction-market platform where users trade on public opinion about internet content, taking "Based" or "Cringe" positions on clips and posts, with prices reflecting which view is gaining traction. The platform includes gamified features such as leaderboards, ranks, and reward mechanics, and is preparing for a mainnet rollout.

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Basement operated a social network designed for connecting with close friends. The company was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch and is now inactive.

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BAYCAT educates and employs low-income youth, young people of color, and young women in the Bay Area in media production and storytelling, while producing content for socially-minded clients. The organization aims to diversify the creative industry and shift media narratives toward more inclusive and equitable perspectives.

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