Social Startups

EXest builds and operates digital platforms connecting people—particularly tourists, guides, and local producers—to drive economic revitalization in rural regions through tourism, primary industry transformation, and guide industry development. The company targets Japan's underutilized local economies and inbound tourism markets.

1 investor

Fabric is a location-based personal journaling app that automatically records the places, paths, and activities a user experiences, letting them add friends and browse photos. It serves individual consumers who want to catalog their experiences and interactions.

1 investor

Friends Against Family Violence is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides shelter, advocacy, housing, outreach, education, and clinical support services to individuals and families affected by family and sexual violence. The organization works to increase offender accountability, raise community awareness, and support survivors in achieving independence.

1 investor

Familo (Familonet) is a mobile app for family and friend groups that lets members share their location, see when others arrive safely, and send alerts with their position in emergencies. It offers user-controlled location sharing and privacy settings, developed in Germany.

1 investor

A nonprofit providing child abuse prevention and family support services through in-home parenting education, crisis nursery care, and community programs. The organization has served families in Ogden, Utah since 1979.

1 investor

FamilyWall is a private cloud-based family communication and organization platform that enables families to share messages, contacts, calendar events, and location information without using social networks. It is designed for family connectivity and coordination across web and mobile devices.

1 investor

Fanbase is a free-to-use social media platform that enables creators to monetize their content through subscription models ($2.99–$99.99/month) with features including photos, videos, audio chat rooms, and long-form content. The platform serves content creators and communities seeking ad-free, transparent content distribution without suppression or shadowbanning.

1 investor

FanChatter is a marketing platform that aggregates and showcases fan-generated social content so companies can use it to promote their brands. It serves both large media companies and individual bloggers.

1 investor

FanClash is a mobile app where fans vote on head-to-head matchups across sports, celebrities, and music, draft fantasy-style star squads, and trade cosmetic and content assets on a peer-to-peer marketplace. It uses an in-app currency (Zems) for voting boosts, wagers, tournaments, and creator/fan earnings, with community leagues and Elo-ranked battles.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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FanHero provides a platform for creators and businesses to create, manage, and monetize video content. The company serves content creators and aims to enable them to achieve financial success through their work.

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Fanicon is a free membership-based fan community platform that lets creators — artists, idols, actors, influencers, athletes, comedians, and character/anime brands — build private, SNS-style communities to interact with and monetize their fans. The company also operates dedicated studios in Tokyo for in-person fan engagement and runs an editorial media site called Fanimedia.

1 investor

Fanvibe is an iPhone/iPod touch app that lets sports fans check into games to chat and trash-talk with friends watching the same game, while delivering real-time scores, breaking news, and alerts for leagues including the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, college basketball, college football, and the English Premier League. It is the first product from We The Fan, a company making sports products for fans.

1 investor

Fanvue is a subscription platform where content creators publish content, engage with fans, and monetize their audience. It serves creators across various niches looking to grow and scale their business.

1 investor

Faves is a mobile app that lets users save and organize videos from various sources without using their device storage. It is available on Android and offers community support through Discord.

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Fedshi is a social commerce platform in Iraq that lets individuals earn money from home without upfront capital by reselling products, while the company handles the products, delivery, and payment collection.

1 investor

Feeld is a dating app for non-monogamous, open, and exploratory relationships, letting users link profiles with multiple partners, use group chats, and communicate transparently. It emphasizes privacy and safety through biometric identity verification, screenshot protection, nudity-blurring in chat, and incognito browsing.

1 investor

Feeloh is a consumer app that acts as a personal social assistant to help adults plan and organize activities and shared experiences with friends, such as restaurant visits, classes, and hikes. It targets adults looking to maintain and invest in their friendships through easier planning of in-person get-togethers.

1 investor

Female Daily operates a platform where users read and write reviews and articles about beauty and personal care products. It also offers a "Try and Review" product-testing feature and a content studio.

1 investor

Fight the New Drug provides conversation guides and educational resources about pornography for use with partners, family members, friends, and communities.

1 investor

Filament is a Slack-style messaging platform built for private networks and communities rather than companies, offering channels, DMs, threads, member vouching, professional profiles, and per-channel AI agents. It provides end-to-end encrypted DMs, Stripe-based payment handling, and AI moderation, and is free for network conveners with revenue tied to new paying members.

1 investor

Fishbowl is a social networking app where professionals connect, ask candid questions, and share advice with peers in similar roles or industries. It is used for topics such as workplace culture, salary transparency, and career challenges.

1 investor

FitzyTV operates an internet television platform for smart TVs and other connected devices. A web crawler indexes streaming channels across the internet and presents them, along with content from a user's existing paid subscriptions, in one interface with watching and recording features.

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Flagr lets people share places by adding photos, video, and descriptions from their mobile phones, then create maps that can be embedded on any website.

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Flikshop allows people to send personalized postcards to incarcerated individuals to maintain family connections and provide emotional support. The service aims to reduce recidivism by helping incarcerated people stay connected to their loved ones and community.

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