Social Startups

Fedi is a mobile wallet application that integrates messaging, financial transactions, and mini-apps within a community-controlled network powered by Bitcoin. It enables hyperlocal communities to manage money and communications through a decentralized architecture.

5 investors

Genius operates an online music encyclopedia where a community, an in-house creative team, and artists annotate and explain song lyrics and the stories behind music. The service reaches over 100 million people monthly through Genius.com and other platforms where music fans gather.

5 investors

GroundGame.Health operates a technology platform and hyperlocal operating model that connects health plans, providers, employers, and community-based organizations to address barriers to care and social determinants of health. It coordinates personalized, culturally tailored outreach and leverages a national network of community-based organizations to support individuals in accessing healthcare.

5 investors

Gym Class is a social gaming platform offering sports games including basketball, baseball, boxing, football, paintball, and soccer across virtual reality and mobile. It serves players looking to compete, socialize, and share gaming experiences within a community environment.

5 investors

HITRECORD is an online platform where people create art collaboratively, contributing to shared projects and creative "Class Projects" alongside a community. It began as founder Joe's personal creative outlet and grew into a collaborative production community.

5 investors

Linden Lab operates Second Life, a virtual world where users can create, socialize, and conduct economic activity, and Tilia, a licensed money services business that facilitates virtual economy transactions.

5 investors

Linq is a communication company focused on getting large numbers of users to adopt its own applications, developing consumer communication apps that may be used worldwide. It emphasizes building and iterating on its own products rather than critiquing others.

5 investors

Mask Network provides a browser extension that integrates Web3 features like decentralized messaging, payments, and file storage into mainstream social media platforms, allowing users to access blockchain-based services without leaving traditional social networks.

5 investors

Openland is a messenger app for building and growing online chat communities, focused on making friends, self-expression, and learning from others. Anyone can start a community on the platform for free.

5 investors

Pacemaker is a DJ app for iPhone and iPad that lets users mix and mash tracks from a library of millions of songs, with an AI DJ feature that suggests matching tracks and transitions. It originated as the world's first portable DJ device in 2007 before evolving into a mobile app.

5 investors

Palmstreet is a live shopping platform that enables collectors to buy and sell items through live streams or traditional marketplace listings. The platform targets collectors and sellers with flexible selling methods and competitive fees.

5 investors

Product Hunt is an online community where people discover and share new tech products, including mobile apps, websites, and hardware projects. Members can submit, browse, vote, and comment on daily product submissions and interact directly with creators, investors, and journalists.

5 investors

Ready Education builds custom mobile apps for colleges and universities that unify campus resources like LMS, athletics, clubs, and events into a single branded app. The platform helps higher education administrators track student engagement, collect feedback, and send targeted content to support student success.

5 investors

RoomClip is a Japanese interior and home decor platform where users share and browse over 6 million real photos of rooms, DIY projects, and products to find home ideas and shoppable items. It offers a mobile app and an online shopping feature, organizing content by room, style, brand, and floor plan.

5 investors

Slidebean is a presentation software platform for creating pitch decks and business slides. The page shown is only a sign-in/sign-up screen and provides limited detail about the product.

5 investors

SnackClub is a gaming community, primarily run through Discord, that hosts esports tournaments (Valorant, Free Fire), community events, and rewards players with cash prizes for participating and competing. It also covers Web3/blockchain games and encourages members to invest in them, positioning itself around gaming, esports, and crypto for a Portuguese-speaking (Brazilian) audience.

5 investors

Those Beyond builds immersive, social games and experiences for entertainment fandoms, deployed directly inside platforms like Reddit, Discord, Twitch, and Snapchat. Powered by its proprietary ARISE Engine, the company creates community activations that let fans connect and play within the franchises they follow.

5 investors

Win-Win is a platform that hosts prediction tournaments hosted by influencers and celebrities where participants predict outcomes of matchups, make charitable donations, and compete for prizes while supporting nonprofit causes.

5 investors

Yope is a mobile app for sharing photos privately within small, real-life friend groups, delivering snaps directly to friends' lock screens without a feed, likes, or algorithm. It positions itself as an AI-native social app for micro-communities.

5 investors

Zencoder is a cloud-based video and audio encoding suite that converts live and on-demand video for customers without requiring them to manage their own encoding hardware or software. It is a product from Brightcove, a provider of cloud content services.

5 investors

Unbereal develops and operates topia, a virtual music live streaming app that creates communities where users can express themselves freely and connect with others in a virtual third space.

5 investors

Mirrativ operates a live game streaming platform where users can broadcast and watch gameplay, alongside advertising services and live gaming events.

5 investors

Amanda is a real-time moderation AI for live streaming and interactive media platforms that automatically detects and blocks harmful content, coordinated harassment, and repeat offenders in chat at scale. It handles routine moderation tasks while surfacing complex cases to human teams and maintains compliance logs for regulatory requirements.

4 investors

BackType was a social media analytics company (YC S08) that was later acquired by Twitter.

4 investors