Soda Health
Series B in 2024
Founded in 2021, Soda Health is a Chicago-based healthcare technology company committed to reducing health disparities by addressing social determinants of health. It operates a platform that delivers personalized benefits, providing real-time access to essential services such as healthy food, over-the-counter medications, and transportation.
Artie is a mobile gaming platform that delivers high-quality multiplayer games directly to players inside popular social media and video apps, eliminating the need to download a separate game app. The platform enables instant, app-free gameplay and allows games to be shared and played within social applications, with features such as voice, texting, and camera input. Incorporated in 2018 and based in Los Angeles, Artie seeks to distribute its games through social platforms and video apps, bypassing traditional app stores to reach players where they already spend time.
Modyfi is an image editing platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enable real-time, multi-user collaboration on photo editing. It provides AI-native design tools, supports commenting and markups, includes integrated video chat, and centralizes projects and resources to streamline feedback and progress sharing within teams.
222 is a social platform that enables users to connect with new people, discover local activities, and deepen relationships through in-person experiences. The platform focuses on quality social interactions and uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to match individuals with similar tastes and preferences based on a survey about social events, helping users form meaningful connections and expand their networks.
Ghost Message
Seed Round in 2023
Ghost Message enables users to send an anonymous message to pals in a group chat to flirt, make jokes, or pose queries.
Modyfi
Venture Round in 2022
Modyfi is an image editing platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enable real-time, multi-user collaboration on photo editing. It provides AI-native design tools, supports commenting and markups, includes integrated video chat, and centralizes projects and resources to streamline feedback and progress sharing within teams.
222
Pre Seed Round in 2022
222 is a social platform that enables users to connect with new people, discover local activities, and deepen relationships through in-person experiences. The platform focuses on quality social interactions and uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to match individuals with similar tastes and preferences based on a survey about social events, helping users form meaningful connections and expand their networks.
Zestworld
Series A in 2022
Zestworld is an online platform dedicated to empowering comic book artists and writers by facilitating the self-distribution of their work. The company provides creators with tools to publish their comics and stories while retaining ownership of their fan contact information. This enables artists and writers to engage with their audience in innovative ways and maintain control over their intellectual property rights. By offering a space where creators can monetize their work effectively, Zestworld aims to revolutionize the comic book community and enhance the connection between creators and fans.
Press Sports App
Seed Round in 2021
Press Sports App, Inc. is a mobile application designed for athletes, coaches, and sports enthusiasts to discover and share sports highlights while fostering engagement within local sports communities. Founded in 2018 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, the platform serves as a social media hub that offers sports news and content, facilitating connections among users who are passionate about various sports. The application enables users to easily find and showcase their sports achievements, enhancing community interaction and support.
Modyfi
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Modyfi is an image editing platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enable real-time, multi-user collaboration on photo editing. It provides AI-native design tools, supports commenting and markups, includes integrated video chat, and centralizes projects and resources to streamline feedback and progress sharing within teams.
Saturn Technologies
Seed Round in 2020
Saturn is a social network that operates on a temporal basis. Saturn organizes chaotic high school schedules and connects students with the people and information that are most important to them.
FastForward.ai
Seed Round in 2020
FastForward.ai is a company that develops a social media engagement and commerce platform designed to help enterprises connect with their customers within social media and messaging applications. Founded in Mountain View, California, in 2016, FastForward.ai offers a software-as-a-service platform that modernizes user experiences through digital marketing, commerce, and mobile payment solutions. Its patented technology facilitates one-click digital commerce, allowing customers to easily access personalized offers, make purchases, and review their transaction history. By leveraging popular messaging applications, the platform enhances customer engagement and enables businesses to drive brand awareness effectively in environments where consumers spend significant time online.
ClassDojo
Series C in 2019
ClassDojo, Inc. is an online school communication platform founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform connects teachers, students, and families, fostering close-knit communities that enhance the educational experience. It allows educators to share classroom activities, including photos and videos, and facilitates communication through features like Class Story and private messaging with parents. ClassDojo aims to engage students and their families by providing a space where learning can be shared and celebrated, ultimately enriching the educational environment and promoting collaboration both in and out of the classroom. The company, previously known as Class Twist, Inc., rebranded to ClassDojo, Inc. in December 2017.
Capture Technologies
Seed Round in 2018
Capture Technologies is a California-based technology company with an additional office in Moscow. It develops Capture, a social app that focuses on real-time interactions using smartphone cameras and AI technologies.
Snackpass
Seed Round in 2018
Snackpass is a social food app founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides a platform that enhances the convenience and affordability of ordering food from local restaurants through mobile order pickup. Users can access a contactless digital menu, utilize self-service kiosks, and benefit from loyalty rewards that encourage repeat business. The app also fosters social interaction by allowing users to unlock discounts with friends, send gifts, and collect points, thereby enhancing the overall dining experience. Snackpass aims to bridge the gap between offline and digital interaction for food purchasers while helping businesses reduce labor costs.
Disco is an HR recognition tool that offers products to recognize, reward, promote, socialize, and analyze a company culture.
The tool helps the team recognize one another's contributions, big and small, and quantifies that feedback to keep culture on track. Through recognition, employees adapt company values while strengthening peer relationships, measure the pulse of the company with culture surveys in Slack, reward employees that go above-and-beyond, and publicize company values to every employee through fun and habit-forming social experiences.
ClassDojo
Series B in 2016
ClassDojo, Inc. is an online school communication platform founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform connects teachers, students, and families, fostering close-knit communities that enhance the educational experience. It allows educators to share classroom activities, including photos and videos, and facilitates communication through features like Class Story and private messaging with parents. ClassDojo aims to engage students and their families by providing a space where learning can be shared and celebrated, ultimately enriching the educational environment and promoting collaboration both in and out of the classroom. The company, previously known as Class Twist, Inc., rebranded to ClassDojo, Inc. in December 2017.
Ourglass
Seed Round in 2015
Ourglass ensures privacy by only sharing a users’ posts with their approved inner-circle. By limiting users to 12 trusted friends, the app provides a uniquely intimate space that quells patterns of social land-grab prevalent on other social platforms. The app also saves stories so users can go back in time and relive memories. “Ephemeral content is great if you want to send funny pictures that you want to disappear, but there are a lot of memories that we want to save and relive with friends,” explains Krueger.
Shareaholic
Series A in 2014
Founded in 2008, Shareaholic provides a content amplification platform that helps marketers, publishers, and site owners increase engagement by personalizing how relevant content is discovered, consumed, shared, and promoted. Its platform serves over 300,000 websites worldwide.
Dubsmash
Seed Round in 2014
Dubsmash, Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a mobile application designed for creating and sharing lip-synced videos. Launched in 2017, the application allows users to record themselves while lip-syncing to a variety of audio clips, including excerpts from movies, songs, and popular speeches. Users can also upload their own audio and enhance their videos with color, although they do not have access to filters or text animations. Dubsmash's platform emphasizes user-generated content, enabling creators to easily produce micro-video entertainment and share it with friends and followers.
L2, Inc., founded in 2010, is a business intelligence service based in New York that specializes in benchmarking the digital competence of consumer brands. The company provides subscription-based research services, including the Digital IQ Index, which evaluates brands' digital strengths and weaknesses across various dimensions such as website performance, e-commerce, digital marketing, social media, and mobile platforms. L2's research covers multiple industry verticals globally, assisting executives in developing strategic plans for their brands. The company operates as a subsidiary of Gartner, Inc., and tracks over 5,000 global brands, working with some of the largest and most iconic enterprises across prestige and consumer sectors.
Snap Inc. is a United States technology and social media company best known for Snapchat, a multimedia messaging app that enables users to send ephemeral photos and videos, share Stories, and access augmented reality features. The company also offers Camera, Chat, Memories, Discover, and Snap Map to enhance communication and content discovery, and has produced Spectacles, a line of wearable camera hardware. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Snap Inc. was founded in 2010 and focuses on camera-based experiences that blend messaging, AR effects, and interactive media for a global audience.
ClassDojo
Series A in 2013
ClassDojo, Inc. is an online school communication platform founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform connects teachers, students, and families, fostering close-knit communities that enhance the educational experience. It allows educators to share classroom activities, including photos and videos, and facilitates communication through features like Class Story and private messaging with parents. ClassDojo aims to engage students and their families by providing a space where learning can be shared and celebrated, ultimately enriching the educational environment and promoting collaboration both in and out of the classroom. The company, previously known as Class Twist, Inc., rebranded to ClassDojo, Inc. in December 2017.
Toro, founded in March 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, is a company that specializes in providing marketing services for app developers. Established by former developers and product managers from popular social games, Toro focuses on equipping app companies with essential tools for mobile marketing. The company's mission is to democratize access to effective marketing strategies, thereby enabling developers to optimize their campaign setups. Toro's marketing plans are primarily executed through the Facebook advertising platform, ensuring that clients can leverage one of the largest social media networks to reach their target audience effectively.
BeatDeck
Seed Round in 2013
BeatDeck is a big data music analytics platform founded in January 2013 by Josh Mangel and Avi Zolty at Y Combinator in Mountain View, California. The platform enables musicians to evaluate key performance metrics, analyze social signals, and track how their music is being shared and received by audiences. BeatDeck provides a comprehensive dashboard that allows users to connect and analyze audio content, helping artists understand their overall influence in the music industry. By offering these insights for free, BeatDeck aims to empower musicians to make informed decisions about their work and enhance their engagement with fans.
Shareaholic
Series A in 2012
Founded in 2008, Shareaholic provides a content amplification platform that helps marketers, publishers, and site owners increase engagement by personalizing how relevant content is discovered, consumed, shared, and promoted. Its platform serves over 300,000 websites worldwide.
SumAll
Venture Round in 2012
SumAll Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2011 that specializes in data analytics solutions for businesses. It operates a platform that consolidates information from over 40 data sources, including social media, web traffic, and email marketing, to automate operations for independent businesses. Boasting over 350,000 users, SumAll enables clients to effectively manage their data and optimize their social media marketing strategies. The platform not only generates and posts the most effective content for engaging customers but also offers tools for automating inventory purchasing and staff scheduling for physical establishments, such as cafes. By utilizing historical sales data and other proprietary inputs, SumAll provides accurate sales forecasts, helping business owners streamline their operations and invest their time and resources back into growth initiatives.
Brit + Co is a media company serving a large online audience of women with a creative spirit. It operates a digital platform and related experiences that combine editorial content, tutorials, and shopping, connecting users with makers, designers, chefs, and inventors to foster creativity. The company offers do-it-yourself project kits and a curated line of products, with content distributed via its app, website, and social channels to inspire, educate, and entertain a digitally connected community.
Plyfe, Inc. is a marketing technology company based in New York City, founded in 2011. The company specializes in providing an automated marketing platform that transforms content into interactive experiences through the use of engaging mechanics such as games and rewards. Plyfe's platform enables brands, agencies, and publishers to create personalized campaigns that engage audiences across various digital touchpoints, including mobile web, social media, and email. Users can participate in campaigns by selecting interactive cards from Plyfe's catalog, uploading multimedia content, and accessing audience data to enhance their marketing efforts. By allowing consumers to engage in activities such as answering trivia questions or watching videos for the chance to win prizes, Plyfe aims to make online and mobile interactions more social and rewarding. In 2018, Plyfe was acquired by Tatango, Inc.
Kanvas Labs
Venture Round in 2011
Kanvas Labs, Inc. is a mobile social networking company based in New York, New York, that specializes in enabling users to create and share engaging visual content centered around real-world experiences. The company offers a platform that allows users to craft social photo stories by combining photos, videos, GIFs, and custom stop motion clips with text, stickers, and music. This content can be shared within the app and across various social media platforms. Originally known as Tracks Media, Inc., Kanvas Labs was incorporated in 2010 and operates as a subsidiary of AOL Inc. The platform emphasizes the creation of micro-social networks, facilitating interactive and collaborative storytelling among friends and followers.
Shareaholic
Seed Round in 2011
Founded in 2008, Shareaholic provides a content amplification platform that helps marketers, publishers, and site owners increase engagement by personalizing how relevant content is discovered, consumed, shared, and promoted. Its platform serves over 300,000 websites worldwide.
Thumb is a platform designed to facilitate self-expression and foster connections among users. Through its mobile application available on iOS and Android, as well as its website, Thumb allows individuals to share their opinions and preferences by 'thumbing' various topics. This feature encourages engagement and generates instant feedback from friends, family, and a broader community, enabling users to discover like-minded individuals and build meaningful relationships based on shared interests. Thumb's focus on creating a purpose-driven community makes it a unique tool for personal expression and social interaction.
One Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops a mobile application called One, designed to facilitate social networking by connecting users with shared interests. The app utilizes information from users' Facebook profiles and their geographical location to identify and notify them of nearby individuals who have similar interests and have also downloaded the application. This innovative approach aims to enhance user interaction and foster community engagement among individuals with common hobbies and preferences.
Sosh is a members-only platform designed to assist individuals in discovering local activities and events while incorporating a social networking element. Developed by Offline Labs, a startup founded by former employees of Google and Slide, Sosh offers personalized concierge services and tailored recommendations for offline experiences. By analyzing various local listings and user data—including behavior, interests, social connections, neighborhood, and demographics—Sosh curates suggestions that enhance users' engagement with their surroundings.
Thumb is a platform designed to facilitate self-expression and foster connections among users. Through its mobile application available on iOS and Android, as well as its website, Thumb allows individuals to share their opinions and preferences by 'thumbing' various topics. This feature encourages engagement and generates instant feedback from friends, family, and a broader community, enabling users to discover like-minded individuals and build meaningful relationships based on shared interests. Thumb's focus on creating a purpose-driven community makes it a unique tool for personal expression and social interaction.
Collaborate.com
Seed Round in 2011
Collaborate.com is a cloud-based team collaboration platform designed to enhance communication and productivity for mobile workforces. Founded in 2011 by entrepreneurs Matt Cutler and David Greenstein, the platform integrates messaging, document sharing, and task management within a single mobile application compatible with iPhone, Android, and the Web. It offers seamless integration with popular cloud services, allowing teams to easily share and manage documents. Users can quickly get started with Collaborate.com by accessing its website or downloading the app from app stores. The company is based in Boston and operates under Kibits Corp.
Vitrue is a provider of social media marketing solutions designed for marketers, agencies, and publishers. The company offers a comprehensive cloud-based platform that enables brands to effectively manage their social marketing efforts across various networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube. Vitrue's award-winning Social Relationship Management (SRM) platform supports over one billion social connections globally, managing more than 4,500 social accounts in over 100 countries. Its services include promotional programs, branded community development, and syndicated brand applications, along with centralized data and member management, strategic consultation, and event marketing integration. Vitrue aims to maximize the marketing potential of social media for its clients while ensuring security and scalability in its operations.
GroupMe Inc. is a New York-based company that develops and operates a group messaging application designed to facilitate communication among users, including those without smartphones. Launched in 2010, the platform allows users to easily connect with friends, family, and coworkers through push notifications or SMS. GroupMe's services include group messaging, conference calling, and location and photo sharing, enabling seamless interaction within social networks. Since its inception, the company has experienced significant growth, processing billions of messages and expanding its team to 25 employees. Acquired by Skype Global, GroupMe operates with a degree of autonomy, maintaining an entrepreneurial culture while aiming to become a primary communications provider for a large user base.
Hot Potato
Series A in 2009
Hot Potato is a technology company that specializes in enhancing the experience of live events through real-time social collaboration. It provides a platform where friends and fans can connect, share their perspectives, and enjoy each other's contributions during events. The company focuses on creating tools that make participating in events more engaging and fun by facilitating interactions among groups who share an interest in the same experiences as they unfold.
Vitrue is a provider of social media marketing solutions designed for marketers, agencies, and publishers. The company offers a comprehensive cloud-based platform that enables brands to effectively manage their social marketing efforts across various networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube. Vitrue's award-winning Social Relationship Management (SRM) platform supports over one billion social connections globally, managing more than 4,500 social accounts in over 100 countries. Its services include promotional programs, branded community development, and syndicated brand applications, along with centralized data and member management, strategic consultation, and event marketing integration. Vitrue aims to maximize the marketing potential of social media for its clients while ensuring security and scalability in its operations.
Vitrue is a provider of social media marketing solutions designed for marketers, agencies, and publishers. The company offers a comprehensive cloud-based platform that enables brands to effectively manage their social marketing efforts across various networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube. Vitrue's award-winning Social Relationship Management (SRM) platform supports over one billion social connections globally, managing more than 4,500 social accounts in over 100 countries. Its services include promotional programs, branded community development, and syndicated brand applications, along with centralized data and member management, strategic consultation, and event marketing integration. Vitrue aims to maximize the marketing potential of social media for its clients while ensuring security and scalability in its operations.
Vitrue is a provider of social media marketing solutions designed for marketers, agencies, and publishers. The company offers a comprehensive cloud-based platform that enables brands to effectively manage their social marketing efforts across various networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube. Vitrue's award-winning Social Relationship Management (SRM) platform supports over one billion social connections globally, managing more than 4,500 social accounts in over 100 countries. Its services include promotional programs, branded community development, and syndicated brand applications, along with centralized data and member management, strategic consultation, and event marketing integration. Vitrue aims to maximize the marketing potential of social media for its clients while ensuring security and scalability in its operations.
BzzAgent, Inc. is a social marketing services company that specializes in influencer marketing, leveraging a network of consumers to participate in word-of-mouth campaigns for various products and services. Founded in 2001 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, BzzAgent connects brands with consumers who share their authentic experiences and opinions through social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The company operates primarily in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and it focuses on creating measurable marketing programs that build trust and influence purchasing decisions. BzzAgent is recognized as one of the pioneering companies in the influencer marketing sector, with over 15 years of experience collaborating with some of the world's largest brands. The company also encourages consumers to rate and review a wide range of products and services, contributing to its clients' business growth. BzzAgent has been operating as a subsidiary of PowerReviews, Inc. since July 2018.
OutStart
Venture Round in 2002
OutStart specializes in social business software and learning systems designed to enhance organizational efficiency and agility. The company offers a range of products, including Evolution LCMS, a learning content management system that facilitates the development and management of learning content. Another key product is ForceTen LCMS, which helps organizations comply with regulations while boosting employee performance and productivity. Additionally, OutStart provides Participate, an enterprise social software platform that harnesses both formal and informal knowledge within organizations. The Desktop Development Suite, which includes OutStart Trainer, allows for the rapid creation of eLearning materials. Through these offerings, OutStart aims to connect individuals with the necessary knowledge and resources to optimize their work processes.
OutStart
Seed Round in 2001
OutStart specializes in social business software and learning systems designed to enhance organizational efficiency and agility. The company offers a range of products, including Evolution LCMS, a learning content management system that facilitates the development and management of learning content. Another key product is ForceTen LCMS, which helps organizations comply with regulations while boosting employee performance and productivity. Additionally, OutStart provides Participate, an enterprise social software platform that harnesses both formal and informal knowledge within organizations. The Desktop Development Suite, which includes OutStart Trainer, allows for the rapid creation of eLearning materials. Through these offerings, OutStart aims to connect individuals with the necessary knowledge and resources to optimize their work processes.