Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership that invests in the moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds of companies that leverage social and mobile technologies to drive generational changes in consumer and business behavior. We call this The Social Construct and believe it represents an innovation and disruption opportunity on par with the Industrial Revolution.
We invest in 4 primary areas: work platforms, Internet of Things software, content and commerce. Across these areas we focus on analytics, data security and health care technology.
Our team has developed dominant media, research and tech companies in the 3 modern tech revolutions – PC, Internet and Social. Our portfolio companies benefit from the resulting rich perspective and world-class connections, a mutually supportive community of more than 170 fellow startups, and support from our LPs, who include leading figures in software development, marketing and media from 3 continents.
They’re all amazing partners but if I had to choose one from the very beginning, it would be Bill Lohse from Social Starts. Bill is best known from his days as the president of Ziff Davis Publishing and founder and CEO of SOFTBANK Forums. He took a leap of faith on Greenhouse by writing us our first check for $25,000. He saw the vision, even though we didn’t have the data, the team and the product we have today. It’s never easy to raise funding, but the first dollar is always way way harder – Bill invested in us before we had any others on board.
Daniel Chait
CEO, Greenhouse
Unlike most venture capital firms, Social Starts maintains two separate sets of funds – moment-of-inception funds and Series A funds – because these two points are where investors derive the greatest value creation.
William Lohse is an industry pioneer, having begun his career in the days of pre-Apple hobbyist computers. After founding and selling the TimeLine software company to Symantec, he became the turn-around publisher of PC Magazine and president of Ziff Davis Publishing. Lohse founded Ziff/SOFTBANK Forums. In 1990, he began Software Venture Partners, an angel fund, which among other unicorns invested in the first round of Pinterest, and then Lohse started the Social Starts VC fund in 2010.
Mike Edelhart is a pioneering media and Internet start-up executive. Mike became widely known in tech circles as the original Executive Editor of PC Magazine and founding editor of other Ziff-Davis computer magazines, as well as the Ziff testing lab, testing software, and other operations.Mike rose to be the Executive Vice President of Ziff-Davis. In addition to his Social Starts role, Mike leads The Tomorrow Project, LLC, our companion operating company, which produces The Pivot Conference focused on big brands coping with the Social Construct. Mike was Managing Director and founder of First30 Services, a launch accelerator for early stage companies. He has held CEO and executive management positions at a range of start-ups and tech companies, including Olive Software, Inman News, Zinio, and Third Age Media. Mike was a partner at Redleaf, a VC firm. Earlier in this career, at SoftBank, Mike directed content for the Seybold, Interop and Comdex conferences and launched new businesses. He has also worked as an Internet strategies consultant to Bloomberg, Reuters, AARP and other major media and Internet companies. The author of more than 25 books, Mike earned a Bsc in journalism from the University of Northern Colorado.
Kevin Dasch has 20 years of experience in technology and spent the last decade working in social media and gaming. He was most recently Chief Operating Officer of Spredfast, Inc. where he was responsible for integrating Mass Relevance and Spredfast after their merger. Kevin became CFO of Mass Relevance in early 2012, leading finance, operations, legal, HR and corporate development, helping the company scale from 20 to 160 employees in two years. Prior, he spent five years at IMVU first as VP, Finance and Business Development, then as Chief Revenue Officer, which he helped grow revenue 10x during his tenure. Kevin also spent seven years at Dell, the last two of which were leading the company’s Corporate Strategy Group, reporting to the Office of the CEO. Kevin also led marketing for Dell’s $4 billion Consumer and Small Business private label financing portfolio and was a consultant in Dell’s Corporate Development Group. Before Dell, Kevin was a management consultant with I/S/O Health Care Group, now a division of Monitor. Kevin earned a B.A. in History from Princeton University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Kevin is an avid reader of American history, a fan of the Texas Longhorns, and a very amateur golfer.
After graduating from the University of Virginia, Tony began his career as a financial analyst for the University of Virginia Investment Management Company. In 2013, Tony moved to New York City to focus on building Pyne, a platform for individuals to ask questions; sparking unforeseen connections and conversations. Bringing the balanced perspective of both an entrepreneur and an investor to his role at Social Starts, Tony now focuses on sourcing new investments as well as helping existing portfolio companies succeed.
Charles Smith has been an active NY angel investor since the mid-2000s who has invested in more than a dozen companies, and has worked for and sat on the boards of ten more. He founded Extension Entertainment, a social music discovery platform. He is the owner of The Ineo Group LLC. Charles spent three years as the Vice President of Etsy Inc., was Vice President of Sales at Tacoda and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Planning at RealMedia.
Maria Zhang is the VP of Engineering at Tinder. Prior to this, she was a VP of Engineering at Yahoo!, where she led the Personalization, Mobile and Content teams for the Publisher Platform organization. Maria founded Alike, a mobile local recommendation app which was acquired by Yahoo in February 2013. Before starting Alike, Maria was a Principal Software Development Manager at Microsoft, a Product Team Lead at Zillow.com, and a Senior Software Engineer at NetIQ Corp.
Jim Louderback is currently advising startups, working with larger organizations on their media and technology strategies and curating the Industry track of Vidcon 2015 as editorial director. In 2007 Jim became CEO of Revision3, and led the startup to a 20-fold increase in viewers, a 12x increase in revenue, 39 new distribution partners and 9 prestigious company and show awards. In 2012 he sold the company to Discovery Communications and led the integration of the company into Discovery. During his two and a half years at Discovery he launched and acquired 6 new networks, and transformed the group into Discovery Digital Networks, which he ran as General Manager. Prior to that, Jim spent 16 years in increasingly senior media and technology management roles – leading startups, growth businesses and turnarounds. He most recently served as senior vice president and chief content officer for Ziff Davis Media’s Consumer group, along with being Editor in Chief of PC Magazine. Jim was also a senior member of the launch team at cable network ZDTV, and guided its transformation into TechTV. He also ran editorial operations at special-interest newspapers and magazines.
Jon Gosier is Co-founder and CEO of video ad-targeting company, AuDigent. He has nearly a decade of experience in data science and international business. In that time he's lead an array of data projects as a consultant to EMC, Google, FEMA, InQTel, The World Bank, U.S. Department of State, Wounded Warriors and as a sub-contractor to the Department of Defense and Lockheed Martin. His work has been recognized with awards from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Harvard Initiative for Global Health, and the Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF). Jon is a long-time member of the TED's Senior Fellowship program. His 2014 TED talk on "Techonomics" discussed the dual-nature of technology's affect on capitalism and society. Jon has worked extensively throughout the African continent where he founded Appfrica, a tech advisory company, that stimulated over $80M in new economic activity and job creation. Various initiatives he's been apart of in Africa since 2008 continue to play a role in attracting over $400 million in new venture capital deal flow to the African continent. An alum of Savannah College of Art and Design, Jon is a recovering music producer and filmmaker.
Jun Li is a Senior Vice President of Beyondsoft and managing partner of Beyondsoft's US Startup investment. She has over 16 years industry experience in enterprise software and Services. Previously, Jun led Beyondsoft's US Strategic Account Business Group, growing revenue from $3 million to $65 million, building and leading a high performance team of over 2000 people. Her Microsoft Practice team received the 2014 Global Preferred Supplier Excellence Award. Jun often consults Fortune 500 companies and startups on their China go-to-market strategy. Before joining Beyondsoft, she worked at Microsoft and CompareNet. Jun is also a long-time member of the Tsinghua Entrepreneur and Executive Club (TEEC), mentoring and contributing to the startup communities in both US and China.
Bob is currently the CEO and co-founder of Teleport, one of the first companies built on Uber's API. Bob was previously at Ziff Brothers Investments for 7+ years investing in multiple asset classes and managing a $1 billion+ portfolio. He has held non-profit board positions with Amigos de las Americas - NY Chapter as well as Council of Urban Professionals (CUP). In his free time he teaches financial literacy to high school students through Junior Achievement (JA). He holds a BA in International Relations (Global Business) from the University of Southern California and is a 2nd degree black belt in kendo.
Nicole Staudinger has more than seven years of experience helping companies refine, streamline, and optimize their communications systems. Most recently, she consulted with the Journalism Accelerator, where she pioneered the organization's social media program, curated online forums, and facilitated community networking to encourage sustainability practices for journalists. Nicole strives to implement positive change through innovative media strategy by contributing her time and expertise to a variety of nonprofit organizations, including the Oregon Environmental Council, the Nonprofit Technology Network, and the World Pulse Digital Action Campaign. She holds a BA in Spanish from the University of Vermont.
Andrew Nealon has been managing technology development in New York City for over a decade. Before joining Social Starts, he was the principal of operations for the New York development firm Insert Culture, which he founded to serve band's growing API and data development needs. With Social Starts, he oversees special projects, data analysis and works with portfolio companies on their technology needs. He and his wife split time between Brooklyn and a 120-year-old farm in the Hudson Valley. He holds an MS in Media Management and Theory from the New School, and a BA in Speech and Rhetoric from Oregon State University.
A Plus is a digital media company co-founded by Ashton Kutcher that features stories that make a difference and create positive change.
Adaptly is changing the way brands increase engagement on social networks by helping them harness the unique value of each social network. It offers one consolidated platform to complete a social media ad buy across multiple social networks including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, StumbleUpon and more.
Adelphic enables the buying and selling of targeted mobile media at scale through its powerful and intelligent Predictive Data Platform.
Affinio’s social-affinity engine analyzes billions of network connections to uncover audience insights no one else can see.
Provides brands, retailers, and resorts with an end-to-end platform for mobile consumer engagement
AlphaPoint is a financial technology company that powers digital asset networks and provides institutions blockchain-enabled solutions to store, track, and trade digital assets. AlphaPoint is led by a seasoned team with 125+ years in financial technology and has offices in New York City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.
Ambassador is the best way to reward your customers for promoting your products online. Ambassador provides an end-to-end solution: you can create, track and manage all your custom referral programs from a single dashboard.
Anvato is object recognition video identification for copyright management and contextual ad placement. Member of New York Angel Investors.
Apptopia provides services in app analytics, data mining and business intelligence for the mobile industry.
Retail stores and restaurants use AreaMetrics to gain powerful insight into customer demographics and shopping patterns. AreaMetrics recognizes customer behavior by leveraging BLE technologies and a large community of mobile partners. Retailers and restaurants leverage AreaMetrics insights to A/B test marketing, generate traffic and increase sales.
Bark helps protect children online from cyberbullying and online predators.
Battlefy is a turn-key platform for game publishers, players, and brands to create and manage eSports competition and content.
Beacon Reader allows readers a way to support and get access to high quality journalismthrough a unique and powerful form of crowdfunding.
BestVendor is an online resource helping professionals find the best software, apps, and services based on recommendations.
Beyond Games is focused on developing extremely high fidelity, AAA games catered to the core market on smartphone & tablet devices. The founding team consists of veterans across console and mobile gaming including NaturalMotion & Lucas Arts.
Big Frame is a media company that provides marketing and production resources for YouTube Infleuncers, and creates video advertising campaigns that reach the right audience next to premium content.
BitGym is a digital home gym for tablets and smartphones. Find your workout of the day, compete with others and watch 3D trail runs - all using your existing cardio machine! There is no extra hardware to buy or configure, BitGym uses the front facing camera and accelerometer on smart devices to detect exercise motion.
A social network on top of the Blockchain where users can actually own what they publish and can monetize as they wish across the Internet and mobile.
Boxed is the fastest and easiest way to shop for bulk-sized groceries, household products and everyday essentials at low prices, with delivery straight to your home or office and no membership fees. Shop at Boxed.com or using the free Boxed app.
Canvs® is the only qualitative social TV platform to provide nuanced insights into audience behavior at scale. Accessing Twitter TV data from Nielsen, Canvs is becoming an industry standard, informing social media strategy for television marketing, research, production, and ad sales. Built using social media listening research from MSI Young Market.
Captiv8 is the only data-driven Influencer Marketplace. Brands leverage Captiv8’s artificial intelligence platform to discover and match with talent based on real-time audience data across social platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, Vine, YouTube, and Facebook. Its SaaS platform, Insights, makes it simple for brands to understand their audience, optimize content, benchmark against competitors, and grow their fan base across social platforms.
Cassia makes the first Bluetooth router in the world and works with partners to develop the related solutions that will revolutionize the way people consume music and interact with various smart things and wearable devices at home.
Chronicled is a Silicon Valley tech company offering a platform for 100% authentic products to be tagged, registered, verified, and traded from a mobile app. The Chronicled platform comprises Smart Tags, an open registry, and mobile apps for tracking product authenticity, ownership, and provenance.
Circle Medical is the doctor's office that comes to you, paid for by your insurance.
The world has moved beyond text. Our platform makes searching AV files simple for developers to integrate into their applications
The fastest-growing cleaning service marketplace connecting homes and offices to professional cleaning services. Cleanify offers consumers instant booking by providing real-time pricing and availability of cleaning services. Local service providers access powerful marketing & operations tools to grow and manage their entire business.
Cloe is an on demand SMS concierge service that provides users with curated recommendations
Clover on-demand dating is the fastest way to meet new people. Simply tell us where and when and we’ll find you a great date.
CoachMePlus provides athlete management systems for professional sports teams, collegiate sports teams, and personal trainers and gyms.
CodeFights.com is where developers learn while they have fun. It’s a real-time social game that challenges your programming skills.
comiXology delivers a cloud-based digital comics platform that was one of iTunes top 10 grossing iPad apps in both 2011 and 2012. If offers the broadest library of comic book content from the top 75 publishers.
Contastic is the simple CRM system that knows who you need to follow up with and generates emails with personalized content for you to send to remain relevant.
CrowdAlbum is building a visual history of the world's events and uses data from the content to help the people behind these events identify, understand and connect to the audience and influencers that made them happen.
Dexter makes it easy for anyone to build and deploy conversational interfaces across multiple messaging platforms like SMS, Facebook Messenger, and Slack.
DigitalPersona is a global provider of strong authentication and access management solutions.
Boost engagement, retention, and revenue up to 30% by giving users the burst of Dopamine they need. Just paste a few lines of code and our API will tell your app – in real time – when and how to reinforce each unique user to keep them hooked and keep you growing.
Earbits is a performance based advertising platform where artists and record labels bid on a pay-per-stream basis for radio airtime, and use the exposure to acquire new fans and market their music and live events.
For businesses, Eden provides on-demand and scheduled office cleaning, supply stocking, IT support, handyman services, and tasks.
Ekho is a digital advertising development platform designed to simplify, extend and enhance native advertising opportunities for brands.
Elite Daily is an online destination that offers peer-to-peer interactions of world news, finance, sports, culture and all things luxury.
Technology to interpret the emotions of online shoppers and through that make the most effective possible offers to them
Enhatch is the highest caliber mobile platform for field sales teams traversing the complex sale in the Industrial Sector.
Entrypoint is an enterprise software platform for creating streamable, interactive 360 videos that users can engage with over the web.
Epic! is the only place to access thousands of high quality, curated children's books without the need to purchase or download them one by one.
Everyday Health is a leading provider of online health information. We’re here to help you manage your own and your family’s conditions and overall well-being through personalized advice, tools, and communities.
Empowers health care providers and everyday people to increase health through a rewards system.
We are fashion editors. Let us create the ultimate wardrobe for you using your own clothes.
Exposure was created for photographers who want a more meaningful and effortless way to publish their work.
Fade (formerly VaporChat) is a free smartphone messaging app that gives you total control and protection over how you chat! Erase any sent text, photo or entire chats and instantly remove them from your phone AND the other person’s phone at any time! Control what can be copied or saved. Screenshot protection. Nothing stored!
Fama is a software platform that analyzes a job candidates digital footprint to help employers better understand the character and trustworthiness of a potential hire. Fama is a returns productivity, offers standardization, and enhances compliance in a world where it's difficult to get a sense of a candidate's character and trustworthiness.
Fitocracy is a social network that empowers and motivates you to reach your fitness goals through gamification, community, and personal guidance. Whether you've never exercised a day in your life or you're an advanced athlete, Fitocracy can help you take you to your next level of fitness.
Hapyrus raises the value of query-able Big Data, anywhere from the cloud.
FOCUS is the parent company of TRAINR, the first fitness software that can auto-quantify your training workouts by utilizing wrist sensors. FOCUS is building the next generation of quantified-self fitness devices to track, evaluate, and guide resistance and sport specific training. FOCUS also provides a virtual trainer environment, permitting users to receive ongoing personal and professional feedback to reach their fitness goals.
With more than 2,500 blogs and 50 filters (location, category and social media engagement), Fohr Card allows you to find the right blog for your next campaign, show or event.
Fresco combines the incredible powers of their mobile devices with the content needs of global news outlets. Their mission is to allow everyone to be a reporter, and really share what matters through the channels previously unavailable to the average person.
FunnelBeam provides users with a platform to maximize sales leads with analytic programs and innovative organization tools.
Granify employs big data and machine learning technologies to enable online retailers to enhance their sales via a SaaS-based solution
Greenhouse gives leaders the power to change their organization and deliver outstanding results through better hiring.Our software goes above and beyond applicant tracking, providing a comprehensive recruiting performance improvement system.
Grovo is the quickest, simplest training platform for digital and professional skills
Hakka Labs helps companies reach the most challenging passive engineering candidates by enabling them to build long-term relationships with engineers over the life of their careers.
Healthguru is the leading provider of health video on the web. We leverage the tremendous power of video to communicate complex medical information effectively to create value for our users and an effective communication channel for our advertisers.
HeartThis is creating the world's largest social shopping site where you can discover products and people that match your individual style.
The founder of dominant Social marketing platform Lithium, and the founder of move review platform Rotten Tomatoes, have joined to start a next generation mobile games platform. We invested alongside a who’s who of gaming and Silicon Valley royalty.
Hookit is the most comprehensive platform to track, measure and value digital and social media for sports & entertainment.
Hyr's mobile platform uses A.I. to hyper-efficiently connect traditional companies like restaurants, hotels and retailers with independent labor to fill hourly paid shift work, on demand.
Ideal Me is a social marketplace designer. It helps users sort through the abundance of information and products online in the self-improvement category.
idealab is a business incubator providing capital, resources and advice for tech startup.
Interviewed lets hiring managers identify their best job candidates quickly and accurately using day-in-the-life job simulations so they can see candidates in action.
Inverse is a technology-driven media company covering the future of how we live, work, and enjoy ourselves for a millennial male audience. Through original reporting, news coverage, opinion, and analysis, Inverse provides its audience with a forward-looking view on everything from space travel, to the future of work and relationships, to what show they should binge watch next.
IRIS.TV delivers relevant content in a television-like experience, personalized to each viewer's interests.
We’ve pioneered a new mobile gaming category offering real world rewards, everyday to smartphone
Tracks Media, Inc. now Kanvas Labs is building a network of mobile-first social networks.
Knowledge Adventure is an early children’s educational software company.
LeadIQ provides prospecting automation platform to increase sales productivity. Sales teams are using LeadIQ to build prospect list easily, find contact info, enrich data, and sync to Salesforce.
Helps local sports organizations better manage and grow their sports programs while bringing teams and participants closer to their passion for sports.
Limitless is a platform that makes building VR content easy for everyone, focused around interactive characters.
A better phone number. Listen is changing the way people interact through text and voice with an innovative app that gives users control of and insight into their communications.
Little Bird analyzes social data to deliver insights for smarter enterprise marketing.
Littlstar is a global network dedicated to immersive 360° video and photos. Discover, watch, and share the best content on Virtual Reality devices, our native iOS and Android apps, and the web.
Loop captures customer reactions “in the moment” with the latest in mobile and cloud technology.
The leading enterprise communication solution. Mobile messaging that's built for business: instant, secure and keeps everyone accountable
Lucky Sort is building a Big Data visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch for exploring emergent patterns in live text streams. TopicWatch equips analysts to explore and dissect the Big Picture by visualizing news, comments, and social media. It transforms the burden of text overload into an opportunity for insightful and actionable information.
Lunar Labs is a Techstars Mobility company that makes smartphone ownership affordable for the 64 million Americans and 5 billion people worldwide who have yet to experience constant mobile connectivity. We are a next generation telecom putting entertainment, media, education, community, and finance tools in new hands.
Mashable is the leading media company for the Connected Generation and the voice of digital culture. Reporting on the importance of digital innovation, Mashable empowers and inspires its readers around the globe.
Mass Relevance develops and offers cloud-based software for media and entertainment sectors
MeowChat is a fun way to chat and meet new friends via mobile devices. Users get matched instantly with new people nearby or around the world and can jump instantly into a random 1-on-1 or group chat. Based in England, MeowChat has exploded to become the Number 1 app in the UK ITunes store, and is now headed into the US market.
MinoMonsters is an mobile gaming studio that develops brands. Its first product is MinoMonsters, a hit monster collecting and battling game for iPhone.
Mixcord is an exciting new discovery platform designed to help top content creators discover apps through amazing content created and shared with apps!
mNectar is the leader and pioneer in mobile application virtualization and cloud delivery. We are simplifying, automating, and transforming how consumers discover and engage with mobile applications. mNectar's Playable allows consumers to instantly play, use, and sample mobile apps
Modern lets you initiate and respond to comments and messages on Instagram and Facebook in real-time.
Award-winning original web series. Comedy. Music. Smart and funny videos from the best comedians, actors and musicians.
Nestio offers landlords, brokers, and renters the ability to manage and communicate information in real-time, all in one place.
NewsWhip keeps newsrooms and brands ahead of the curve by instantly identifying the content being shared by 2 billion people, worldwide
At NimbleDroid, we’re inventing cutting-edge technology and tools to redefine how developers and their teams craft awesome apps.
Optimal helps brands and advertisers manage social advertising campaigns in real-time with its media acquisition and optimization platform and proprietary analytics tool
Original Stitch is an online fashion clothier based in San Francisco that allows its customers to build their perfect dress shirt from premium quality fabrics, with endless variations of patterns and details and all made in Japan.
Mobile technology platform with proprietary, cookie-less tracking system that enables targeting, retargeting and attribution on mobile.
An intelligent optimization and logistics solution for Grocery's last mile.
Percolata deploys inexpensive sensors in retail environments to capture physical-world big data.
Pinterest can organize and display what you love. Growing as fast as Facebook did in its day.
Plyfe is an automated marketing and rich media platform that uses fun mechanics to acquire, engage and influence audiences.
PocketGM aims to revolutionize the fantasy sports industry by creating a seamlessly integrated platform that bridges the traditional season-long experience with an innovative daily option. PGM will enable the 39 million current fantasy players to compete head to head with new or existing teams while capitalizing on the social & competitive nature of sports.
Povio is an iPhone and Android communication app that enables users to upload and ping “Point-Of-View” photos upon the request of friends.
ProSky is disrupting the HR industry by being the one-stop hub for everything training, recruiting, and hiring. We train candidates in high-demand job skills while giving companies a comprehensive platform to test-drive candidates before hiring them.
The Natural Language Personality Analytics API. Developed through 20+ years of academic and applied research by the world's preeminent experts in language and social psychology, Receptiviti's IP is used by organizations such as the NSF, NIH, US Army, IBM, Intel and Facebook.
Mobile centric CRM solutions for the restaurant industry.
RentHop simplifies real estate decisions through technology and quantitative analysis. In large cities apartment search is painful because there are far too many choices and very few great finds. We've created the HopScore, a proprietary algorithm to sift through available inventory and sort by quality; saving time for both renters, landlords, and real estate brokers.
Renzell is a new restaurant rating system with a modern data-driven methodology, focusing on high-end restaurants in New York City. Renzell selects restaurants to rate through an exhaustive research process and then rates these restaurants using a hand-selected panel, a comprehensive survey, and a proprietary algorithm.
Rheo is your source for news, information, laughter and inspiration. The more you watch, the smarter Rheo gets at giving you just the great videos you want, nothing more. Our goal is to make your world a little smarter, more positive, and more fun… one video at a time.
Scout helps travelers do incredible things, with no planning. We hire local assistants to give you advice, book your activities and make your life easy.
On mobile, screenshots are becoming the go-to visual bookmark. We built a simple tool to make these screenshots actionable. When brands use ShopRoll to publish on Instagram and Snapchat, users can screenshot the posts, then open our mobile app where they can buy with one tap
Shots is a mobile application that allows its users to stay connected with their friends in a safe and powerful global community.
Sidelines replaces ads with delightful, engaging content created by smart people.
SimpleReach aggregates and analyzes real-time data across social media to identify what content is driving traffic and where paid distribution dollars are best spent. The company offers big data solutions for web content providers.
Slash is a free keyboard for iPhone & iPad that makes it easy to share anything, without switching apps. Just tap "/" to unlock Foursquare, Giphy, Spotify, Stickers, YouTube, and more.
SmartNews, based in Tokyo, is an award-winning Internet news aggregation/ curation app which enables users to read trending news articles in a customized and convenient manner through its instinctive interface.
Snaps is the first complete solution for brand marketing in messaging apps
SocialFlow helps brands, publishers and retailers identify and capture value from Twitter and Facebook.
SocialRank helps brands find out more information about the people that follow them on social networks, starting with Twitter.
A cyber security company with innovative, patented isolation technology to prevent browser-borne malware attacks
The world’s most powerful, open social software platform. We connect every business in the world to the people they care about.
https://www.spredfast.com/
Stratifyd provides a data-driven visual analytics platform to augment human's ability to mine actionable insights from heterogenous textual data.
Stream is a new kind of data store designed for building, scaling and personalizing feeds.
Streamup is a live video community. Watch thousands of awesome channels and chat with other viewers or create your own channel and start broadcasting today.
Stride is an automated code review product that is helping developers create better software, faster.
strongDM monitors real-time data errors and anomalies to add confidence to your data-driven decisions
Tastemates allows users to share what you love and discover together! They believe that our taste defines us. All the movies, TV shows, music, books, games we love make us who we are. They thought it was the right time to build a community based on what you're into instead of who you know. Tastemates helps you find and connect with people who share your taste then let's you discover, discuss and share everything you love!
The Tap Lab is a location-based gaming studio that publishes mobile games with a real-world twist.
Thinglink is an image engagement tool that lets users add clickable tags to web images and share the tagged images on social networks.
Thunder is a creative management platform for global brands to ensure fast, consistent, and targeted messaging across regions, channels, and audiences. Brands rely on Thunder's software-as-a-service for scaling creative versioning in the digital world.
Build the world's largest online Anime & Cosplay community.Curate the best Anime content!
Treeline is a platform that allows anyone to build a custom backend for their app without writing code.
TripleLift is an advertising solution that identifies and amplifies images for the visual web.
TXN is a consumer spending analytics and surveying platform for businesses. Combining purchase data from a proprietary consumer data panel and qualitative feedback from targeted surveys, TXN allows merchants of all kinds to uncover insight about themselves, their customers, their competitors, and their partners. A spinoff from TrialPay, a SocialStarts 1 investment recently acquired by Visa.
UnaliWear’s Kanega watch provides voice-controlled, 24×7, go-anywhere support for falls, medication reminders, and a guard against wandering with guide-me-home assistance.
Turn phones into service instances for creating massive scale distributed infrastructure.
The Upside platform puts brands in control of a fast moving market and increasingly price sensitive consumer. Our Dynamic Consumer Exchange converts affinity-based consumer expressions into actions through personalized mobile promotions delivered in-the-moment. Your brand. Their way.
Vango is a marketplace that connects buyers with top independent artists.
Vantage is the premiere analytics service for sports players, teams and media
Vid.iq is an audience development suite helping brands gain viewers and subscribers organically with video.
VinePair is the leading content platform about wine, beer and spirits. We speak to the next generation of consumers, creating a brand they can relate to and trust.
Vingle, a social networking site with a pinboard-style interface, allows users to create collections and follow the collections of others
Vizbee is in deployment with early customers. Be the first to know when it's widely available.
Waldo is a window into your best friends’ lives via smarphones – making sure you’re always in the loop with the people you care most about
Wellthy is a healthcare concierge service. We use dedicated care coordinators and our seamless technology platform to project manage healthcare for families with sick and aging loved ones. We take the pain out of healthcare scheduling appointments, finding the right specialists, researching treatment options, managing insurance, and much more.
Werk is the go-to destination for flexible work opportunities for ambitious women. We are a job board on a mission: keeping women in the leadership pipeline.
YouEarnedIt is a SaaS HR technology platform that redefines the way companies engage their employees. By providing tools to connect, reward, reveal and report in real-time, YouEarnedIt is able to consolidate employee engagement initiatives into one, easy to use mobile platform for teams of all sizes.
End-to-end marketplace for player crowdfunding, fan engagement, and tournament event registration for sports and skilled games. Invest in your favorite player and share the winnings.
Zemanta is an online service for automatic enhancement of textual content.
Join one of the innovative companies in the Social Starts portfolio