Social Startups

Social Inclu K.K. operates group homes for people with disabilities in Japan under the country's disability welfare services framework. The company focuses on addressing the housing shortage for people with disabilities and their families.

1 investor

Social Snap provides customizable social sharing buttons and widgets that enable website visitors to share content across over 30 social networks and applications. The tool includes analytics, social login integration, automated posting features, and content lockers to drive engagement and track sharing performance.

1 investor

Social Tip rewards customers with cash for sharing their experiences with brands, converting everyday users into advocates. The platform modernizes word-of-mouth marketing through an incentive-based sharing mechanism for consumer brands.

1 investor

Socialbrowse offered a Firefox browser extension for sharing links, likened to a "Twitter for links." The company is inactive.

1 investor

Socialee is a mobile shopping app for beauty products that combines social media with e-commerce, letting users discover and buy makeup, skincare, haircare, fragrances, and bath & body items through shoppable video reviews. It also lets people become creators who earn commissions and rewards by posting their own product review videos and referring others.

1 investor

SocialEngine provides software for building and running online community and social networking platforms, with tools for member management, activity feeds, messaging, content moderation, and monetization. It offers self-hosted source code access, a REST API, and admin controls for operators who want to create and grow their own branded communities.

1 investor

SocialHub is an all-in-one social media management software offering a unified inbox for comments, messages and mentions, a cross-channel content planner, and analytics/reporting for teams. It targets marketing, PR and community management teams, including brands and public-sector organizations, and is developed and hosted in Germany with ISO 27001 and GDPR compliance.

1 investor

Socialmood is a creative agency focused on social-first digital communication, content, and brand strategy for brands that want to stand out. It offers services including creativity, social content, social and brand strategy, and social listening and analytics.

1 investor

Socialmoth operates an anonymous social community where users post thoughts, gossip, and secrets and receive updates when friends post. The company is launching Disenchat.com, an email-verified forum for anonymous workplace discussion within organizations.

1 investor

SocialPicks is an online community where users share stock picks and investment ideas, discuss investments, and learn from one another. It serves retail investors interested in social, community-driven investing.

1 investor

Social Preneurlab teaches social entrepreneurship and financial literacy to K-12 students and marginalized communities through curriculum and educational programs. The organization aims to develop youth into leaders and agents of social change.

1 investor

SocialRx connects members with community-based activities like art, culture, nature, and movement to address mental health and loneliness. The company provides a social prescribing solution that bridges gaps in traditional mental health services, particularly for underserved populations.

1 investor

Sol is a mobile app for self-care, personal growth, and community, offering practices such as breathwork, journaling, meditation, prayer, and yoga along with personalized multi-week growth plans. It connects users with others who share similar goals and interests to support their inner-life development.

1 investor

Soleil Space is a tech-media company operating a film streaming platform focused on indie and award-winning films from Global South diasporas — creators and cultures of Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. It offers social streaming features such as watch parties, community groups, and peer-to-peer film recommendations.

1 investor

Soloist is a mobile app that turns a phone into a loop station for recording and layering music, adding effects, and remixing loops. It lets musicians collaborate remotely by contributing parts to each other's projects.

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Songtree is a music collaboration platform where musicians upload and store audio tracks in the cloud, discover songs from other users, and add their own parts such as vocals or instruments. It serves singers, songwriters, and instrumentalists creating and collaborating on music.

1 investor

Sonix is a platform for the gaming community that combines ultra-low-latency voice, competitive tournaments, and 3D identity features. It serves serious gamers and aims to be the leading gaming community platform.

1 investor

SoSha offers a platform for HR and marketing teams to run employee advocacy and referral campaigns, letting staff share pre-approved job ads and branding content through their own LinkedIn and social media accounts. The platform includes AI-assisted post drafting and an analytics dashboard that tracks clicks, shares, and conversions for each campaign.

1 investor

Souffle Club is building a professional networking platform positioned as an alternative to LinkedIn, where user profiles are built from peer recommendations and trust-based endorsements rather than resumes, schools, or job histories. It aims to map a "trust graph" of who trusts whom and in what professional context.

1 investor

SoundStorming is a platform that gives fans exclusive access to raw, unfinished music content and the creative process behind it. The platform recognizes and compensates engaged fans while allowing artists to monetize existing creative moments rather than producing additional polished content.

1 investor

A messenger application that emphasizes privacy controls and enables users to share location, communicate with automatic message translation, customize chat appearance, and track personal health metrics via wearable integration.

1 investor

Sphinx is an end-to-end encrypted chat application built on the Bitcoin Lightning Network, operating without a central server. It also supports decentralized social media and payments, letting users pay content creators and make purchases in bitcoin.

1 investor

Splashup (formerly fauxto) is an online image editing tool that supports layer-based effects along with other editing features. The product is in beta and does not yet offer its full set of editing capabilities.

1 investor