Social Startups

Kik is a messaging and community platform that enables users to discover public groups, watch live streams, and make one-to-one connections. The service caters to people seeking to find and build communities online.

6 investors

Kosh provides digital lending to blue-collar workers in India through a joint liability model that uses social networks to assess creditworthiness and reduce costs. The platform targets credit access for a 150-million-person segment previously considered underserved.

6 investors

Kumu is a social gaming platform where players join live multiplayer games such as Color Game, Pusoy, and Tongits with real-time voice chat, reactions, and token-based prizes. It also lets agents build and manage player communities as a business, and operates as a registered, compliant gaming platform in the Philippines since 2018.

6 investors

Lowkey built a tool for gamers to capture, create, and share gameplay moments, focused on the social gaming experience. The company was acquired by Niantic in November 2021.

6 investors

MyHealthTeam builds social networks for people diagnosed with chronic health conditions, connecting patients so they can share experiences and manage their health. It operates over 60 condition-specific communities reaching people across multiple countries.

6 investors

Neynar is a software platform for building games, commerce, agents, and social applications on the Farcaster protocol. It provides infrastructure, APIs, and visual development tools for developers and brands to deploy applications to a network of 2.6M+ accounts and connected crypto wallets.

6 investors

note is a media platform that lets creators publish and monetize text, images, audio, and other content, supporting a range of creative activities. Operated by note Inc., its mission centers on enabling anyone to start and continue creating.

6 investors

Pigeonly is a subscription-based platform that helps people locate and communicate with incarcerated loved ones, offering reduced-cost prison calls and the ability to send printed photos and greeting cards from a phone, tablet, or computer. It is built on a proprietary inmate-search API that organizes Federal, State, and County records to track inmate locations across prison facilities.

6 investors

Rooter operates a gaming community platform in India with over 85 million registered users, enabling purchase of in-game currency and gift cards. It focuses on publisher-centric monetization for the gaming market.

6 investors

Scopio operates a platform and mobile app that connects businesses with a global network of over 25,000 creative professionals for hiring photographers, illustrators, videographers, and graphic designers, plus a stock library of over 3 million authentic images from 172 countries. It serves clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies and publishers to NGOs and startups.

6 investors

Sekai is an AI-powered platform where users create, remix, and share interactive mini-apps instantly without coding, ranging from utilities to games. The platform enables direct participation and collaboration through shareable links that friends can join immediately.

6 investors

SocialSign provides a guest Wi-Fi platform that captures customer contact information and behavioral data through branded login pages, enabling businesses to build customer databases and send targeted marketing messages. The platform integrates with CRM and marketing automation tools to support email, SMS, and personalized advertising campaigns.

6 investors

Stocktwits operates an online community platform where investors and traders share ideas, analysis, and trade discussions organized around stock tickers. The page presented is its community guidelines rather than a product description.

6 investors

Tilt is a technology company providing a mobile crowdfunding tool that lets groups and communities collect, pool, fundraise, or sell money online. It also supports social organizers and is certified to handle fundraisers for non-profit organizations.

6 investors

YOUTRUST operates a network-based recruiting and career platform in Japan, connecting users through their professional networks for hiring and job changes. It targets Japanese companies and professionals looking to address structural challenges in the job-change market.

6 investors

Auto Legends is an online multiplayer car racing game where players customize vehicles with licensed performance parts, tune builds, and compete in races, alongside community and creator features. It targets car culture enthusiasts and casual players, and is distributed on PC and Mac via Steam, the Epic Games Store, and direct download.

5 investors

BeReal is a social media platform where users share unfiltered photos using a front-and-back camera format during daily two-minute windows. The app focuses on authentic peer-to-peer social connection rather than curated content.

5 investors

Block Party provides tools and services to help users control their online privacy and reduce harassment and unwanted contact on social media platforms. The company restructures privacy settings as an opt-out default rather than an opt-in requirement, serving individuals concerned about data exposure and online targeting.

5 investors

BookClub is a social audiobook platform where groups of 3-8 people listen to books together and leave time-stamped voice notes and video reactions that unlock for others as they reach the same moments. It enables shared reading experiences without spoilers, serving book clubs, friends, and author communities.

5 investors

Coform is a curated, practitioner-run community for Solutions Engineers, Forward Deployed Engineers, and Solutions leaders, hosting small in-person meetups and crowdsourcing best practices across teams. It operates in eight cities across Europe and North America, and is built by the same team behind the product Focal.

5 investors

Coverstar is a social media app for young people featuring creator-focused features like daily challenges, livestreaming, and avatar gaming, with AI-assisted and human-moderated content to prioritize user safety. The platform targets children and young teens seeking a safer alternative to mainstream social networks.

5 investors

DanceFight is a mobile app for video dance battles where users challenge friends to dance-offs, record dance videos with filters and effects, and vote on favorites to climb a leaderboard. It is a consumer social and competition app centered on dance.

5 investors

DataRank is a social analytics company that monitors online conversations to give brands consumer insights, competitive analysis, and campaign and reputation tracking. It serves large enterprises, including Fortune 100 companies, and has been acquired by SimplyMeasured.

5 investors

Digg is a news aggregation and social curation platform that surfaces popular stories and discussions from across the web. It serves content consumers and tech enthusiasts interested in technology, science, and culture news.

5 investors