Social Startups

Ōta LIFE is an anime fan platform offering short-form Reels, daily quizzes, a coin-reward marketplace for anime merchandise, gacha collectibles, and community features, alongside the Ōta TOKYO cultural festival. It targets anime and otaku fans primarily in India, connecting them with Japanese pop culture.

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BeamStart is an online community for entrepreneurs and founders that offers exposure, support, and member perks, and hosts a job board listing startup roles. It positions itself as a resource for founders aiming to grow their businesses and careers globally.

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Beatbox operates a music community space where visitors can engage with and around music beyond traditional venues like concerts or festivals. The venue, launching in New York City in 2025, targets music fans seeking regular, accessible opportunities to connect with others around their shared interest in music.

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beder is a mobile travel app for discovering destinations and experiences through geolocated videos, letting users save places, plan trips with friends on a map, and book experiences, hotels, and flights via partners. It also lets travelers create profiles, post trip albums, and follow others for inspiration.

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Beluga Dive is a platform for the scuba diving community that connects divers, dive professionals, and dive shops, letting users follow instructors, find information about dive sites and centers, book diving trips, and complete pre-dive paperwork online. It also lists partners across tourism, diving, and ocean conservation.

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NeverEnding develops a web app for creating visual content including character portraits, tokens, comic strips, and animatics without requiring art skills, targeted at tabletop gaming communities and content creators. The platform enables users to bring stories and imagination to life for gaming, streaming, and visual storytelling purposes.

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A social marketing agency that promotes African products to European markets by building brand identity, narrative, and positioning around social enterprise principles. The agency provides strategic consulting, creative storytelling, digital transformation, and media campaigns focused on ethical commerce and sustainable development impact.

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BeReal is a social media platform that prompts users daily to share unfiltered photos from both front and back cameras during a random two-minute window. The app fosters authentic social connections by capturing spontaneous moments without filters or staging, positioning itself as an alternative to curated social media platforms.

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Royal Game is a free-to-play mobile gaming app for Thai players, offering casual casino-style and arcade games such as fish shooting, slots, Dummy and Pok Deng card games, Hi-Lo dice, and strategy titles. The app includes social features like friend lists, in-game chat, gift sending, daily free coins, and account linking via Facebook, Line, or a Royal ID; it uses virtual coins only and cannot be exchanged for real money.

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Bigo operates a live streaming and social entertainment platform where users broadcast and watch live video content. The service is presented to a global consumer audience.

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Bipi is a reseller platform that allows individuals to sell viral products online without inventory or upfront costs. It serves as a social commerce marketplace where resellers can access curated products and build income through community-based selling.

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Birda is a birdwatching app that lets users log and identify birds using an AI-powered photo identification tool, an in-built species guide, and community help, alongside interactive maps of birding spots. It targets nature lovers and birders, offering goal tracking, challenges, and a social feed, and sends collected sightings data to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility for conservation research.

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Birthday.app is a consumer mobile app that uses AI to find friends' birthdays from a user's contacts and compile them into a personal birthday calendar with reminders. It also supports giving and receiving gifts throughout the year.

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Birthday Box Foundation provides birthday celebration supplies and STEAM-based educational materials to children experiencing financial hardship, primarily in the United States. The organization focuses on fostering emotional wellness, resilience, and a sense of belonging through meaningful birthday experiences for vulnerable children.

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

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Bitplay built Meetings.io, a browser-based video conferencing tool that lets people create a shareable meeting room link and join face-to-face calls without sign-ups or registration. The product could be used for remote meetings, client calls, or team collaboration. The company was acquired by Jive Software in 2013.

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Bitsmedia develops digital services for Muslims worldwide, primarily through its flagship Muslim Pro app and Qalbox video platform, offering Islamic content, spiritual guidance, and lifestyle tools. The company focuses on making Islamic knowledge and faith-centered tools accessible globally.

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A 17,000 square foot outdoor bar and event venue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn offering food, drinks, and entertainment for social gatherings and community events.

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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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Blindmate is a social app with over 1 million users that connects people through community-driven features. The company was founded as a hobby project and has grown with backing from investors.

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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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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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