Social Startups

Pirika develops litter collection and survey services, including a global litter-picking social app and tools for tracking cleanup activities and conducting microplastic surveys. Founded from a Kyoto University lab, it serves individuals, companies, municipalities, NPOs, and researchers working on environmental pollution from waste leaking into nature.

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Pivot Preserves sells handmade jams and branded merchandise, with proceeds supporting youth programs. The company operates as a social enterprise focused on direct-to-consumer retail of food and lifestyle products.

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Pixc builds a suite of Shopify apps that automate ecommerce tasks such as product photo editing, background removal, alt text optimization for SEO, AI-generated lifestyle imagery, and collection merchandising. It serves Shopify merchants and ecommerce brands looking to automate repetitive storefront work.

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Planetary is a decentralized, peer-to-peer social network built on the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol, where user data is stored locally and shared directly with followers rather than kept in a central cloud database. The app uses open-source algorithms and is aimed at creators, artists, makers, and communities seeking to build networks with self-governance and control over their own data.

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Platogo is a technology company that develops games and social media applications, running backend services on Ruby and Elixir with Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS and multi-platform frontend stacks. Its teams cover backend, frontend, product, visual design, and organizational operations to build and maintain its player-facing apps.

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PlayerOne is a metaverse sandbox gaming platform that provides creation tools, social features, and an NFT trading marketplace. It lets users build custom characters, spaces, voxel assets, and games, and buy or sell PlayerOne NFTs.

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Plink is a cross-platform application for gamers that provides in-game stats, matchmaking, voice/text chats, and smart push notifications, and lets users track friends' game progress and find opponents. It supports games such as PUBG and is available as a mobile application.

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Plinth is an organization focused on social impact, technology, and community development that offers expert speakers on topics including government innovation, charity sector technology, and digital storytelling for marginalized communities.

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PLUC is a storytelling platform and creative studio that trains and empowers creators to produce authentic narratives across multiple languages and geographies. The company operates a global community of over 350,000 creators and combines a creative studio, storytelling platform, book publishing, and workshops to amplify underheard voices and drive cultural impact around themes like climate action, gender, and sustainability.

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Plugo offers PlugoLinks, a branded link-in-bio tool that consolidates a user's sales channels and social media accounts into a single customizable landing page. The product serves content creators, brands, and businesses that need a centralized hub to direct followers across multiple platforms.

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Plura is an event discovery and community platform that helps people attend social events in their city and connect with other attendees before, during, and after events. The platform serves event organizers and event attendees seeking in-person social connections.

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Plurchase is an online social shopping site that lets users browse partner retail sites like Zappos through a social toolbar, chat with friends, and see what items others are viewing. It targets online shoppers looking for a shared, social browsing experience.

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PNYO is an anonymous social communication app that enables users to chat and call strangers without registration. The platform offers voice live streaming, games, and other free features for users seeking casual conversations with unknown people or looking to escape social media fatigue.

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Podbbang is a podcast platform where users can listen to, create, and share podcasts. It also offers audiobooks, magazines, and community features for podcast creators and listeners.

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Pollground is a social polling website where users create surveys and let crowds answer questions, with the option to post questions and comments anonymously.

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Polly is a social polling app that lets users create multiple-choice polls to share on Snapchat, Instagram stories, and other platforms. Aimed primarily at teens, it is also used by brands and influencers to collect consumer feedback and opinions.

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Pools is a memberships platform that helps event organizers in art, music, and other cultural communities build memberships tied to their events. It uses the ticket sales checkout to upsell attendees into memberships that offer automated discounts, advance access, or members-only benefits.

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Popcall is a paid-messaging platform that lets creators charge their followers per message or per minute on calls, keeping 80% of their earnings. It includes an Instagram DM auto-reply integration that converts incoming direct messages into paid conversations.

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Pops is a platform for casual and arcade-style games where creators can compete for weekly prizes within a community. The platform hosts multiple game categories ranging from arcade and 3D games to puzzles, sports simulations, and party games.

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PopViewers is a content platform and community for entertainment enthusiasts that provides pop culture news, reviews, and recommendations. The site helps users discover entertainment content and engage with other fans through social sharing and community features.

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POSTOPLAN is a social media management platform for scheduling and automating posts across multiple networks, including Google My Business and Telegram, with features like bulk scheduling, a content calendar with post ideas, DM/comment management, and integrations with Slack and WordPress. It targets marketers, agencies, and teams managing multiple accounts and projects.

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Praja is a social networking app for India's vernacular internet users, organized around hometown neighborhood circles and "fan groups" for politicians, political parties, and celebrities. It focuses on political and local content, with initial coverage of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and is distributed via Google Play, Apple App Store, Mi App Store, and Galaxy Store.

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Pribbit was a social networking service where users posted status updates on behalf of others, described as a Twitter-like platform. It is now inactive.

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Pride Cup is a nonprofit organization that organizes Pride Cup sporting events and education programs to challenge homophobia and transphobia in Australian sports clubs and make them more welcoming to LGBTIQ+ participants. The organization works with community sporting clubs across multiple codes to increase positive LGBTIQ+ visibility and engagement in sport nationally.

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