Social Startups

Ludio hosts online multiplayer game nights over video, running daily and themed events for a community of players who join from around the world. The platform is designed to make social gaming easy for hosts and participants seeking to meet people and have fun.

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LUKSO is a Layer 1 EVM blockchain built for social, culture, and creator communities, providing user-centered standards and smart profiles for digital ownership and decentralized applications. It aims to simplify Web3 onboarding and enable creative economies through standardized, interoperable tools for identity, assets, and social interaction.

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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.

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Lumyer is a mobile app for adding animated effects and filters to photos and videos, producing short animated edits for consumers. It targets casual users creating content around holidays and special occasions.

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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.

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Macro is a meeting platform designed to foster authentic self-expression and genuine human connection through playful, inclusive interactions. It aims to replace traditional meeting formats that constrain user behavior with an experience prioritizing comfort, belonging, and imperfection.

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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.

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Magic Potion Games is a game studio building online social gaming experiences aimed at children, with an emphasis on safety and imaginative virtual worlds. It is run by parents with backgrounds at major game companies.

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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.

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Make.org is a platform that enables participatory democracy by collecting citizen ideas and proposals directly to decision-makers, with a focus on strengthening democratic institutions and consensual outcomes.

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A community engagement platform and tourism hub that showcases Edmonton's attractions, events, and resources to both residents and visitors. The site connects people with local activities, venues, and business opportunities while promoting the city's identity and supporting local enterprises.

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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.

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Mangrove is a community brand focused on creating spaces and communities where diverse individuals can connect, grow, and discover their authentic selves through healthy exchange and shared values around sustainable living.

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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

The Marriage Pact runs a research-backed questionnaire that matches college students on campus with their most compatible potential partner, reporting compatibility as a percentage. It operates as a consumer matchmaking service aimed at university communities.

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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.

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Matters is an open-source, censorship-resistant community platform for Chinese-language writing and discussion, where users publish essays, journals, and cultural criticism. The platform focuses on community governance, content moderation experiments, and combating spam and abusive content.

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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.

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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 for meeting new people offline through small group activities of four to twelve participants who share common interests. It targets adults looking to make new friends and connections, and is available across Western Europe and North America in German, English, French, and Dutch.

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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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