At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Social companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Social Companies & Startups (California, United States)
Aspiration
Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
Founder(s): Andrei Cherny, Joseph N. Sanberg
Location: Marina Del Rey, California, United States
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Social Impact
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ViaSat
ViaSat produces satellite and other digital communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location.
Founder(s): Mark Dankberg
Location: Carlsbad, California, United States
Industries: Broadcasting, Communications Infrastructure, Mobile, Optical Communication, Social Media, Telecommunications
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Emerge
Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Founder(s): Isaac Castro, Mauricio Teran, Sly Lee
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Augmented Reality, Consumer Electronics, Media and Entertainment, Social, Virtual Reality
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Quora
Quora is a Q&A platform with a mission to share and grow the world’s knowledge.
Founder(s): Adam D’Angelo, Charlie Cheever
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Information Services, Internet, Product Design, Q&A, Social Media
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Conviva
Conviva is the continuous measurement and engagement platform for streaming media.
Founder(s): Hui Zhang, Ion Stoica
Location: Foster City, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Analytics, Marketing, Social Media, Software, Video, Video Streaming
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IRL
Groups, Chats, Events
Founder(s): Abraham Shafi, Henry Khachatryan, Krutal Desai, Scott Banister
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Mobile Apps, Social, Social Media, Social Network
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Flipboard is a developer of a mobile social magazine platform used to collect and share news articles from various news sources.
Founder(s): Evan Doll, Mike McCue
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Apps, iOS, Media and Entertainment, Mobile, News, Social
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FameBit
Fame Bit is a YouTube marketing platform where brands collaborate with YouTube influencers and create videos.
Founder(s): Agnes Kozera, David Kierzkowski
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Marketing, Social Network
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Imgur
Imgur is an internet company that specializes in providing online entertainment for its users.
Founder(s): Alan Schaaf, Sarah Schaaf
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Digital Entertainment, Internet, Social Media
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Aira
Aira provides tech-enabled services for the 300 million visually impaired people around the globe.
Founder(s): Larry Bock, Sujeeth Kanuganti, Suman Kanuganti, Watson Yim, Yuja Chang
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Assistive Technology, Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, Internet, Internet of Things, Social Impact, Software
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Edmodo
Edmodo is a global education network that connects all learners with the people and resources they need to reach their full potential.
Founder(s): Charles Rosendahl, Jeff O’Hara, Nicolas Borg
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Blogging Platforms, EdTech, Education, Social Media
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Tagger Media
Tagger Media is an influencer marketing management platform helping brands through the planning, activation, and reporting phases.
Founder(s): Peter Kennedy
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Analytics, Marketing, SaaS, Social CRM, Social Media
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Octane AI
Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Founder(s): Ben Parr, Leif K-Brooks, Matt Schlicht
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing Automation, Messaging, SaaS, SMS, Social Media Advertising
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Kiva
Kiva is an international non-profit organization that enables families to make small loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Founder(s): Jessica Jackley, Matt Flannery
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Micro Lending, Non Profit, Social Entrepreneurship
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Traackr
Traackr is an influencer marketing platform providing discovery, campaign management and performance measurement.
Founder(s): David Chancogne, Pierre-Loïc Assayag
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Market Research, Search Engine, Social Media
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Clash
Clash is a creator platform empowering short form videos creators to monetize and engage meaningfully with their passionate communities and fans.
Founder(s): Brendon McNerney, Jean-Baptiste Dominguez, P.J. Leimgruber
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Content Creators, Social, Social Media
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StudyFree
StudyFree is the Subscription-based platform that connects students with international opportunities worldwide
Founder(s): Dasha Kroshkina
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, SaaS, Social Impact
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Racket.com
Let’s make a racket.
Founder(s): Austin Smith, Stu Smith
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Internet Radio, Podcast, Social Media
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Captiv8
Captiv8 is an internet platform that allows influencers to own, promote and monetize their audience.
Founder(s): Krishna Subramanian, Sunil Verma, Taz Patel, Vishal Gurbuxani
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Social Media, Software
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Red Robot Labs
Red Robot Labs is a mobile gaming studio that provides users with a location-based mobile gaming platform.
Founder(s): John Harris, Mike Ouye, Peter Hawley
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Location Based Services, Mobile, Social Media
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MomCo App
MomCo App is a FREE app that allows moms to locate and connect with potential mom friends that live close to them.
Founder(s): Beth Bryan, Jillian Rose Darlington
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Mobile, Mobile Advertising, Social Media
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Hachi
Hachi helps the user get successful introduction with anyone you want – for business, social and personal reasons.
Founder(s): Rachna Singh
Location: San Ramon, California, United States
Industries: Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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ZOTT
ZOTT is a distribution platform to provides robust, unique, and personalized content to ease the pain and suffering of sick children.
Founder(s): Jim Carol
Location: Dana Point, California, United States
Industries: Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment, Private Social Networking
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Echo
Echo provides the industry’s first and largest provider of Real-time Engagement Products
Founder(s): Chris Saad, Khris Loux
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Blogging Platforms, Developer Tools, Internet, Market Research, Publishing, Real Time, Social Media, Software
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IntroMe
IntroMe is a mobile app that helps you discover and connect with like-minded people nearby.
Founder(s): Chris Fikkert, Haydar Haba, Sam Raman
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Classifieds, Internet, Lifestyle, Social Media, Social Media Management
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Zest, the Reality Media App
Zest provides an app that provides users interaction with the real world using augmented reality.
Founder(s): Pavel Dyakov
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Communities, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Social Media, Social Network, Software
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Proformative
Proformative is the leading EdTech platform for the office of the CFO.
Founder(s): Greg Stout
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: B2B, EdTech, Social Media
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WalkOVR
WalkOVR is world’s first adaptive, high frictional flat locomotion platform to literally use their body to move naturally & freely in VR.
Founder(s): Tugra Sahiner
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Computer, Internet of Things, Social Media, Software
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Hangtime
Hangtime develops a mobile app that allows users to keep track of their friends’ social plans.
Founder(s): Allan Carroll, Karl Jacob
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer, iOS, Mobile Apps, Social Media
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MyAnimeList
MyAnimeList a social network that allows anime and manga fans to organize, discuss and discover videos.
Founder(s): Garrett Gyssler
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Animation, Content, Media and Entertainment, Social Network, Video
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Chisos Capital
Chisos Capital writes checks of $15K-50K to invest in idea-and early stage-startup businesses.
Founder(s): William Stringer
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, FinTech, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Impact, Venture Capital
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Pace
Pace is a fitness and social wellness platform that redefines mental health through groups that are effective, fun, social, and challenging.
Founder(s): Alex Shye, Bettina Elling, Cat Lee, Jack Chou
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, mHealth, Social, Wellness
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TTYL
TTYL is an audio social network built to help friends and family keep in touch with each other when they are physically apart.
Founder(s): Alex Ma, Austen Ma
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, iOS, Mobile Apps, Social Media
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Aella
Aella helps africans get credit, invest, get health insurance, and make payments.
Founder(s): Akin Jones, Wale Akanbi
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: FinTech, Information Technology, Innovation Management, Social Impact
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Snipfeed
Where creators build empires.
Founder(s): Anas Bouassami, Pierre-Habté Nouvellon, Redouane Ramdani
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Content Creators, E-Commerce, Social Media
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Broadly
Broadly is a mobile-first communications platform that ensures that your business looks great online.
Founder(s): Assaf Arkin, Josh Melick
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Consumer Reviews, Messaging, Mobile Apps, Reputation, SEO, Small and Medium Businesses, Social Media
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Koji
Koji is the world’s most powerful link in bio platform, building the app store for the Creator Economy.
Founder(s): Dmitry Shapiro, Jonathan Miller, Sean Thielen
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: App Discovery, Content Creators, Developer Platform, Developer Tools, Social Media
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Angaza
Angaza provides a technology that enables businesses to provide affordable life-changing products to people in emerging markets.
Founder(s): Bryan Duggan, Bryan Silverthorn, Lesley Marincola, Victoria Arch
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Solar
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Countable
Countable is a community engagement platform that powers virtual communities for large and small organizations.
Founder(s): Bart Myers, Peter Arzhintar
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Internet, Social Network, Social News, Software
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3Q Digital
3Q Digital is a digital marketing agency catering to online advertising and mobile marketing.
Founder(s): David Rodnitzky, Will Lin
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Analytics, Semantic Search, Social Media, Social Media Advertising
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Popl
Popl allows users to share their social media and contact info with a tap.
Founder(s): Jason Alvarez Cohen, Nick Eischens
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Social Entrepreneurship, Software
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Magisto
Magisto is a platform that provides smart A.I. assistance for video editing, publishing, and marketing.
Founder(s): Alex Rav Acha, Oren Boiman
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Apps, B2B, Content Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Video, Video Editing
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Academia.edu
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.
Founder(s): Richard Price
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Higher Education, Information Technology, Internet, Social Media
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zSpace
zSpace offers a system that enables its users to integrate their normal lives with a desktop-based virtual reality system.
Founder(s): Paul Kellenberger
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Education, Innovation Management, Social Impact, Software, STEM Education, Virtual Reality
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ATTN:
ATTN: is a content network that helps young people understand and impact the world around them.
Founder(s): Jarrett Moreno, Matthew Segal
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Digital Media, News, Social Media, Video
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UrbanSitter
UrbanSitter is an online hub connecting families with babysitters through social networks.
Founder(s): Andrea Barrett, Daisy Downs, Lynn Perkins
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Child Care, Online Portals, Social Network
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Callin
Callin operates as a social podcasting app.
Founder(s): Axel Ericsson, David Sacks
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Social Media, Social Network
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DeviantArt
DeviantArt is an online art gallery and community creating the cultural context for how art is created, discovered, and shared.
Founder(s): Angelo Sotira, John Edgar, Matthew Stephens, Scott Jarkoff
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
Industries: Art, Communities, E-Commerce, Internet, Music, News, Photography, Social Media
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Musely
Musely develops an online platform intended to provide medical skincare treatments through technology.
Founder(s): Carrie Jiao, Ethan Gui, Jack Jia, Rob Bradshaw
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Content, Content Creators, E-Commerce, Social Media
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Ladder
Ladder is a next-gen professional community platform.
Founder(s): Akshaya Dinesh, Andrew Tan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advice, Communities, Consumer Software, Internet, Professional Networking, Social Network
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Marin Software
Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE:MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform used by advertisers and agencies.
Founder(s): Christopher Lien, Joseph Chang, Wister Walcott
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Internet, Social Media Marketing, Software
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Mobilize
Mobilize provides a private label professional networking solution for organizations to maintain engagement with customers.
Founder(s): Arthur Vainer, Sharon Savariego
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Social Media
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The Mighty
The Mighty is a digital health community created to empower and connect people facing health challenges and disabilities.
Founder(s): Mike Porath
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Health Care, mHealth, Psychology, Social Network, Wellness
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Rallyware
Performance Enablement Platform
Founder(s): Eugene Feldman, George Elfond, Mykhaylo Kostandov
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Corporate Training, Enterprise Software, Gamification, Human Resources, Project Management, SaaS, Social Media
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Writesonic
Writesonic’s AI writing assistant is used by 200,000 businesses to automate their writing and save 80% of their time and energy.
Founder(s): Samanyou Garg
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Content Marketing, Information Technology, Internet, Marketing, Marketing Automation, Social Media, Software
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Plato
Plato offers the perfect messenger+games experience in a single app.
Founder(s): Stanley Adrianus
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Mobile, Social Network
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Grokker
Netflix for wellbeing with community at its core
Founder(s): Lorna Borenstein
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Fitness, Health Care, Internet, Social Media, Video
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UNUM
UNUM is a developer of a customizable platform aimed at powering the connection between content and creators.
Founder(s): Dillon Morgan, Jarrett Chen, Kaley Morgan
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Mobile, Social Media, Social Media Marketing
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MomentFeed
MomentFeed is a platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands.
Founder(s): Rob Reed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Analytics, Digital Media, Local, Local Business, Mobile Advertising, SaaS, Social Media Marketing
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Elude
Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to.
Founder(s): Alex Simon, Frank Scerbo, Ivan Smirnov
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Adventure Travel, Leisure, Search Engine, Social Network, Travel
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Dandy
Dandy is a live dating app that’s built to solve the problem of immense time and effort required by existing online dating experiences.
Founder(s): Daniel Newman, Leor Massachi
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Dating, Social
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Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Founder(s): Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Đệ Phan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Blogging Platforms, Messaging, SMS, Social Media
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Pixlee
Pixlee is a user-generated content marketing platform that helps brands to market and sell by using real customer photos and videos.
Founder(s): Awad Sayeed, Jeff Chen, Kyle Wong, Miraj Mohsin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Brand Marketing, Digital Media, E-Commerce, Mobile, Social Media
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Torre
The global matching network for work
Founder(s): Alexander Torrenegra, Andrés Cajiao
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Freelance, Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Network
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Pillar
All-in-one business suite for creators
Founder(s): Faisal Younus, Michael Ivkov
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Content Creators, E-Commerce, Peer to Peer, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Social Shopping, Software
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MobiSocial
MobiSocial is a mobile software company that provides group communication.
Founder(s): Ben Dodson, Ian Vo, Monica Lam, TJ Purtell
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Mobile Apps, Social Media, Social Network, Software
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Onclusive
Onclusive empowers communications teams with media monitoring and PR analytics software and services.
Founder(s): Rajagopal Sathyamurthi, Rebekah Iliff, Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Content Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media, Software
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Heymarket
The professional way to text message and manage customer relationships from anywhere.
Founder(s): Amit Kulkarni, Manav Monga
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, CRM, Field Support, Messaging, SMS, Social Media
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The Nudge
The Nudge is a text-based planning service used to help people explore their city.
Founder(s): John Peterson, Sarah Peterson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Content Creators, Lifestyle, Social Media, Subscription Service
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Hornet
Hornet is the world’s gay social network with 30 million members worldwide
Founder(s): Christof Wittig, Mitchell Geere, Sean Howell
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: LGBT, Mobile Apps, Social Media
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Topia
Create social experiences in the metaverse for real-time connection & play.
Founder(s): Daniel Liebeskind, Dylan Jones
Location: Indio, California, United States
Industries: Social Media, Software, Video Conferencing
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Lovewick
Lovewick is an app that helps couples stay in love once they’ve found it.
Founder(s): Ali Maggioncalda
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Consumer, Social Media
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Greenfly
Greenfly enables organizations to transform their advocates into brand builders by harnessing the power of digital media.
Founder(s): Daniel Kirschner, Shawn Green
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Digital Media, File Sharing, Photo Sharing, Social Media Marketing, Video
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Evergreen
Evergreen is a beer, spirit, cocktail, and wine management and marketing platform for bars, restaurants, brands, and consumers.
Founder(s): Jeff Gordon, Melani Gordon
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Food and Beverage, Hospitality, Mobile, Restaurants, SaaS, Social Media, Software, Wine And Spirits
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Influ2
Influ2 is a first person-based marketing platform for B2B marketers to target decision-makers, capture their intent, and track engagement.
Founder(s): Dmitri Lisitski, Vladimir Mikhalko
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, B2B, Brand Marketing, Digital Marketing, Enterprise Software, Lead Generation, Marketing, Marketing Automation, SaaS, Social Media Advertising
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NetBase Solutions
NetBase provides social intelligence solutions that enable brands to publish, monitor, analyze and engage with customers in real time.
Founder(s): Jonathan Spier, Michael Osofsky
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Search Engine, Semantic Search, Social Media, Software
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Shopkick
Shopkick, a Trax company, is the leading shopping rewards app, bringing moments of joy to everyday shopping – both on- and off-line.
Founder(s): Aaron Emigh, Cyriac Roeding, Jeff Sellinger
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Apps, Brand Marketing, E-Commerce, Marketing, Mobile, Retail, Social Media
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Songclip (Audiobyte)
Songclip is the first Social Music API, offering a SaaS technology platform for integrating licensed music on social and digital platforms.
Founder(s): Andy Blacker, John vanSuchtelen
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Content Delivery Network, Developer Tools, Messaging, Mobile, Music, Photo Sharing, SaaS, Social
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The League
The league is a dating applications that matches users based on similarities.
Founder(s): Amanda Bradford
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Dating, Social Media
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Linqia
Linqia is the only influencer marketing company that delivers guaranteed influencer ROI for the enterprise.
Founder(s): Maria Sipka, Nader Alizadeh
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Content Creators, Content Delivery Network, Social Media Advertising
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Good&Co
Good&Co is a platform that connects people, companies, and workplaces. We help job seekers, employers, and employees to find a great fit.
Founder(s): Ashesh Shah, Kerry Schofield, Palle Pedersen, Samar Birwadker, Subbu Balakrishnan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Human Resources, Internet, Psychology, Recruiting, Social Media
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LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Founder(s): Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Konstantin Guericke, Reid Hoffman
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Professional Networking, Recruiting, Social Media, Social Recruiting
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Lifo
Lifo builds commerce platform to empower social media creators
Founder(s): Alex Niu, Arthur Meng, Shuo Shan
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Social Shopping, Software
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Giggl
Watch and browse together with your friends and teams. Your new portal into the internet.
Founder(s): Oliver Reason, Phineas Walton, Rob Morrissey, Tony Zog
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
Industries: Media and Entertainment, Social Media, Software, Video Streaming
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Adwisely
Adwisely develops a solution that automates advertising campaigns.
Founder(s): Pavlo Matviienko, Volodymyr Vorobei
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Big Data, Facebook, Google, Marketing, Marketing Automation, Social Media, Software
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Cocoon
Cocoon is a dedicated space for the most important people in your life.
Founder(s): Alex Cornell, Sachin Monga
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Internet, Messaging, Social Media
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Teamable
Teamable is an employee referral and diversity hiring platform that transforms social networks into high-performance talent pools.
Founder(s): Hovhannes Nurijanyan, Laura Bilazarian, Meruzhan Danielyan, Vazgen Hakobjanyan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Employment, Recruiting, Social Media
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Piazza
The predominant social learning platform connecting students, instructors and employers.
Founder(s): Pooja Sankar
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Education, Recruiting, Social, Technical Support
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TapInfluence
TapInfluence unites content creators, influencers, and brands to build authentic relationships through meaningful content.
Founder(s): Holly Hamann, Promise Phelon, Rustin Banks
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Blogging Platforms, Brand Marketing, SaaS, Social Media, Software
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Tenor Inc
Tenor’s GIF search engine helps you find the perfect GIFs to express your thoughts and feelings in mobile messaging conversations.
Founder(s): David McIntosh, Erick Hachenburg, Frank Nawabi
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Messaging, Social Media, Video
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Happs
Happs is a live streaming news platform that covers top stories from around the world.
Founder(s): David Neuman, Drew Shepard, Mark Goldman
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: News, Social Media, Social News
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GameOn Technology
Our technology powers intelligent chat applications across multiple platforms for some of the world’s largest brands.
Founder(s): Alex Beckman, Kalin Stanojev, Nate Simmons
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Digital Media, Messaging, Social Media, Sports
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Brigade
Brigade wants to make civic engagement easy, effective, and enjoyable — and in so doing, restore political power back to the people.
Founder(s): James Windon, Jason Putorti, John Thrall, Matt Mahan, Miche Capone, Sean Parker
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Internet, Politics, Social Media
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WeLink
WeLink is an advanced enterprise social media security platform.
Founder(s): Cyrille de Nervaux, Nathan Chandra
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Cyber Security, Security, Social Media
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Blue
Blue is an app that allows you to connect with and get to know the people around you using Bluetooth.
Founder(s): Christen Montero, Jose H. Montero Sr., Jose Montero
Location: Riverside, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Professional Networking, Social Network
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Sparkcentral
Sparkcentral is a customer engagement tool that enables one-on-one messaging via social channels.
Founder(s): Davy Kestens, Matthew Finneran
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Customer Service, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Social Media
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CreatorIQ
The most trusted software to unify and power advanced influencer marketing for the world’s most innovative enterprises
Founder(s): Igor Vaks
Location: Culver City, California, United States
Industries: Advertising Platforms, Brand Marketing, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Social Media Marketing
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Blind
Blind is an anonymous workplace network where verified professionals connect to discuss what matters most.
Founder(s): Kyum Kim, Sunguk Moon
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Messaging, Private Social Networking
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Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Founder(s): Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp, Paul Sciarra
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Internet, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Social Network, Software
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VRChat
VRChat is a virtual reality social platform that allows users to easily build social virtual reality content.
Founder(s): Graham Gaylor, Jesse Joudrey
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Messaging, Social, Virtual Reality
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Rumble
Rumble creates and publishes games across a variety of web browsers, mobile devices and social networks.
Founder(s): Greg Richardson, Mark Spenner
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Gaming, Social Media, Video Games
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