Social Startups

Dojo is a consumer app for discovering local experiences and events, connecting users with people nearby, and finding activities to attend.

1 investor

Donio is a charitable crowdfunding platform in the Czech Republic that allows individuals to raise funds for personal causes such as medical needs, accident recovery, or disaster relief, with donors receiving no rewards but updates on how their contributions are used.

1 investor

DotsNet is an AI-powered community operating system that analyzes members' real-time intent from Journals and an asks/offers marketplace to make double-opt-in introductions, share knowledge via its TLDR Hub, and surface private career opportunities. It serves professional communities, alumni networks, university career centers, and founder communities, and lets business-plan users integrate their own AI agents.

1 investor

DOWN is a casual dating app that lets users swipe to indicate whether they want something casual or more serious, with features like filters, interest-based search, photo challenges, and prompts. It markets itself to women looking to explore casual connections and includes options for group matching.

1 investor

E-Sandhai is a B2B agri-tech company providing real-time data-driven price predictions for fresh produce to reduce supply chain inefficiencies and food wastage in tier 2 and tier 3 cities. The company facilitates produce deliveries to hotels, retail shops, and micro shops across Tamil Nadu.

1 investor

E-Guardian is a Japanese company providing online content moderation, community monitoring, customer support, cybersecurity, and related operational services. It serves businesses operating websites, apps, and online communities, and is publicly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime market.

1 investor

EastMeetEast is a dating platform for Asian singles built with unique cultural matching criteria. The company operates under the brand EME Hive and serves singles seeking culturally-aligned relationships.

1 investor

Eastern Fostering Services provides foster care placements and family matching services for children in Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Norfolk. The organization recruits and supports foster carers to create safe, nurturing family environments for children with difficult backgrounds using trauma-informed practices.

1 investor

EatSleepRIDE is a community platform for motorcycle enthusiasts that combines social networking features with tools tailored to riders. The platform enables users to exchange information, ideas, and knowledge about motorcycles while making connections with other riders.

1 investor

Educate Girls is a non-profit that mobilizes rural communities and government resources to identify, enroll, and support out-of-school girls in India's educationally marginalized areas, improving foundational literacy and numeracy skills. The organization partners with community volunteers and government systems to expand education access and gender equality, with a goal to reach 10 million learners by 2035.

1 investor

Egab is a network connecting 3,000+ journalists and experts across 100+ countries with international newsrooms, consulting firms, and organizations seeking on-the-ground reporting and local perspectives from the Global Majority. It handles pitch review, story commissioning, payments, expert matching, and primary data collection from hard-to-reach communities.

1 investor

Eigen is building an AI "mutual friend" designed to help people connect, belong, and grow together, aiming to counter the impersonal feel of personalized recommendations and single-bot interactions.

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ElitePartner is a matchmaking and online dating service for academics and singles seeking long-term relationships, operating across German-speaking markets in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It is run by PE Digital GmbH and launched in Germany in 2004.

1 investor

Empire.Kred is a social game where users' online influence is represented by a tradable share price, earning in-game reward points (E-XP), on-chain collectible gifts, and dividends through community engagement. The platform combines social game mechanics with AI-powered gift creation and blockchain-based ownership of digital collectibles and achievements.

1 investor

Emprunte mon Toutou is a French online platform connecting pet owners with volunteer borrowers who walk or look after their dogs, cats and other animals for free, whether for short outings, a few hours, or weekend care. Operating since 2017, it serves pet owners and animal lovers across France as a peer-to-peer pet care community.

1 investor

Endex provides a platform for retail investors to create custom portfolios, research securities, and discuss trading strategies on a unified interface. The platform aims to simplify investing for both new and experienced traders.

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EnerGaia grows spirulina in proprietary closed bioreactors and sells it as fresh-frozen paste and freeze-dried powder to food manufacturers for use in beverages, noodles, pastas, meat substitutes and snacks. It also licenses its bioreactor systems, post-harvest processing, and smart farm management software, and runs rural farming projects to create livelihoods in low-income communities.

1 investor

EnriquezArte is a humanitarian NGO that supports vulnerable families in Barcelona, Spain through community building, professional training, and volunteer networks. The organization operates an international school for NGO management and community building, and runs programs in education, health, cultural exchange, personal development, and social integration.

1 investor

The English Skills Learning Center is a nonprofit organization that provides English language and literacy classes to adult immigrants and refugees in Salt Lake County through partnerships with community libraries, schools, and workplaces. The center operates with over 120 trained community volunteers serving approximately 800 learners annually from diverse linguistic backgrounds.

1 investor

Essence is developing an app for creating, discovering, and interacting with verified "digital clones" — AI replicas of a person's mind that others can text, call, or video chat with, and that can consult one another with per-memory permission controls. It targets consumers seeking on-demand interpersonal connection with experts, creators, friends, and their own AI representations.

1 investor

Ethereum Comments Protocol (ECP) provides an SDK and embeddable components for developers to add onchain comments to their applications, storing comments on Ethereum where they are cryptographically signed and accessible to other apps and smart contracts. It targets developers building onchain social infrastructure, with gas-optimized posting on L2s such as Base.

1 investor

Ethereum Towers is a metaverse project featuring a virtual vertical structure of 4,388 resident-owned apartments and communal areas within the Ethereum Worlds Metaverse. It offers a community-oriented virtual social experience with planned future expansions.

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Give as you Live operates an online fundraising platform that enables individuals, corporates, and charities to raise money through shopping cashback, personal fundraising pages, and corporate initiatives. The platform connects donors with UK charities and has raised over £45 million since 2005.

1 investor

Everyday.me is an automatic journaling service that records and permanently stores users' life memories. It is a consumer application for personal life-logging.

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