Social Startups

Ludio hosts guided online game nights over video chat, where a host teaches a rotation of 100+ short social games to small groups of participants. It runs in the browser with no app or prior experience required, aiming to help people meet others and build community.

1 investor

LUKSO is a blockchain network centered on Universal Profiles, smart-contract-based accounts that let users create a single on-chain identity for social apps, collectibles, and other decentralized applications. It offers standards (LSP), a customizable profile Grid of mini-apps, and relay-sponsored transactions for creators, collectors, developers, and AI agents.

1 investor

Lumific developed a web and mobile photo management application that automatically organizes and edits image libraries. It processes photos held both in cloud storage and on a user's device, sorting them without manual input. The app was aimed at consumers with large, unsorted personal photo collections.

1 investor

Lyghtly is a community platform that connects individuals based on shared interests and hobbies, positioning itself as an alternative to traditional dating apps by facilitating meetings through activities rather than profiles alone.

1 investor

Mad Realities is a creator-powered entertainment network that produces original episodic shows in partnership with online creators for distribution across social platforms and streaming. The company bridges internet culture and television-level production, creating content for internet-native audiences.

1 investor

Magic Circle is a venture-backed mobile game studio building cooperative, social games designed to help people bond and express themselves through play. It focuses on phone-based experiences, with titles including Magic Garden on iOS and a game on Discord.

1 investor

Magipop is a platform for onchain content co-creation, where "initiators" launch open-call creative projects — spanning music, writing, sci-fi anthologies, travel stories, typefaces, and digital magazines — that others can join as co-creators or shareholders with profit sharing. It hosts collective creative movements across formats and connects contributors, managers, and audiences around shared projects.

1 investor

MainStory provides childcare services in Indonesia, offering daycare facilities and in-home caregiver placement with real-time monitoring, standardized procedures, and Montessori-based curriculum. The platform serves working parents seeking safe, transparent childcare with trained professionals.

1 investor

Mamio is a mobile app that helps mothers find and connect with other mothers nearby for friendship and mutual support, using a swipe-based matching approach. It targets mothers, particularly those on maternity leave, in the Czech market.

1 investor

Mammoth is a client app for accessing Mastodon, offering features such as cross-instance following and unified feeds for users of the decentralized social network.

1 investor

Mammoth/TokenBot operates a social trading engine that lets traders connect exchange API keys to broadcast real-time algorithmic and technical trade orders to their Telegram and Discord communities, keeping members in sync. It also runs a token-gated VIP community (TKB) with staking, XP rewards, and an ERC-20 membership utility token.

1 investor

Manifold is a prediction market platform where users trade on the outcomes of events across topics such as politics, technology, sports, culture, and business. Users start with play-money credits to make forecasts on user-created markets.

1 investor

Markit is a text-messaging platform that lets creators reach their audience directly via SMS instead of relying on social media algorithms or email. Creators can send newsletter-style posts, sell merchandise, host paid events and webinars, offer paid memberships, and use sign-up forms and tracking links to grow their textable following.

1 investor

TFIOM (The Future Is On Mars) is a luxury fashion brand that creates collections inspired by Mars, space, and contemporary art to motivate younger audiences. It operates as a division of youth media company Mars Reel Media Corp, with a team drawn from designers at Gucci and New Guards Group.

1 investor

Matters Lab operates a Web3 social media ecosystem centered on Matters.Town, a decentralized, IPFS-based publishing platform where creators produce and monetize digital content and assets. Its products include NFT-powered subscriptions, token-driven communities, DAO governance, the Billboard on-chain advertising protocol, and NFT projects like The Space and Traveloggers, serving independent writers and content creators.

1 investor

MAX is a messaging and communication app for chatting, sending audio and video messages, sharing large files, and making free voice and video calls that work on weak network connections. It also offers content feeds to follow authors, profile security settings, and services such as online age verification and document signing.

1 investor

Maxwell Social is a members club and cultural community in New York that hosts social events such as house parties, debate nights, ideas dinners, and chef-in-residence programming. It positions itself as a community of members who know each other, along with a journal of culture and conversation.

1 investor

Meet5 is a mobile app that helps people find new friends by joining or organizing local group activities such as hikes, dining, bowling, and museum visits. It focuses on in-person, face-to-face meetups in the user's city, with group activity features offered for free.

1 investor

MeetAnyway provides software for hosting online conferences with built-in networking features that allow attendees to connect with each other, self-organize meetings, and maintain contacts—focusing on the relationship-building aspects that typically draw participants rather than talk consumption.

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Menéame is a Spanish-language social news website where users submit and vote on links and stories, featuring content such as historical and political analysis. It functions as a community-driven news aggregation and discussion platform.

1 investor

MeNow (friendOS) is a private mobile app designed for close friends to connect. The page provides no further detail about its features or functionality.

1 investor

Merazine is a platform for discovering emerging fashion brands and connecting with a community of like-minded people around fashion. It targets fashion-focused consumers looking to find new brands and their "fashion circle."

1 investor

Merkle Manufactory is a software company that contributes to the Farcaster protocol and builds clients for it. Farcaster is a decentralized social networking protocol.

1 investor