Top Social Startups in California

6 employeesYC W24Early stage

Applied AI & ML Sales & marketing Social & community Media & entertainment

Native

What they do:

Artificial Intuition for marketing

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6 employeesYC F26Early stage

Social & community Travel & hospitality

Wanderlog

What they do:

Travel planner for researching, organizing, and mapping your trip

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5 employeesYC W19Early stage

Plura (formerly Bloom Community)

What they do:

The social app for edge-of-culture communities

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HQ: San Diego, CA, United States

5 employeesYC W20Early stage

Sales & marketing Social & community Media & entertainment

Rethoric

What they do:

LinkedIn content consultancy and scheduling platform for busy founders

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HQ: San Diego, CA, United States

4 employeesYC W21Early stageRemote

Sales & marketing Applied AI & ML Social & community

Beluga

What they do:

Creator marketing that scales like paid ads

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3 employeesYC X25Early stage

Cloud & infrastructure Manufacturing & chips Social & community

KubeSail

What they do:

The Self-Hosting Company

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2 employeesYC S19Early stageRemote

E-commerce & retail Social & community

The Third Place

What they do:

Subscriptions for neighborhood businesses

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2 employeesYC W21Early stage

Media & entertainment Applied AI & ML Social & community

HeartByte

What they do:

GenAI Interactive story. Creator write fictions 10x faster.

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2 employeesYC W24Early stage

Media & entertainment Applied AI & ML Developer tools Social & community

Magic Hour

What they do:

AI media creation platform for creators and developers

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2 employeesYC W24Early stage

Applied AI & ML Sales & marketing Social & community Media & entertainment

Typa

What they do:

The content engine that wins attention and drives growth.

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2 employeesYC S24Early stage

A1Zap by A1Base

What they do:

The social network layer for AI apps

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2 employeesYC W25Early stage

Sales & marketing Media & entertainment Social & community

Bluma

What they do:

Canva for short-form video ads

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2 employeesYC F25Early stage

Applied AI & ML Productivity & automation Social & community

Bubble Lab

What they do:

Turn gatherings into lasting relationships.

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2 employeesYC W26Early stage

Cloud & infrastructure Sales & marketing HR & recruiting Social & community

Dreach

What they do:

staffing firms with dreach grow revenue faster.

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2 employeesYC X26Early stage

Applied AI & ML Social & community Media & entertainment

Grocalo

What they do:

AI brain for creators that runs their social content

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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States

2 employeesYC S26Early stage

Leaders In Tech

What they do:

Become the leader your company needs.

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1 employeesYC S15Early stage

Media & entertainment Applied AI & ML Social & community

Eggnog

What they do:

Fun with AI video

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1 employeesYC W24Early stage

Applied AI & ML Wellness & mental health Social & community

Quippy

What they do:

Helps build social skills through daily practice

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1 employeesYC F26Early stage

Social & community Media & entertainment

Remix

What they do:

Social media content auto-generated with your existing data

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YC W26Early stage

Social & community Media & entertainment

Acquired

What they do:

The frontpage of the internet.

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2,000 employeesYC S05Early stage

Social & community Media & entertainment Gaming

Twitch

Acquired

What they do:

A global community creating the future of live entertainment.

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2,000 employeesYC W07Growth stage

Social & community Applied AI & ML Media & entertainment

neoncoral

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1 employeesYC X25Early stage

Productivity & automation Social & community

SendHub

Acquired

What they do:

Simple Business SMS. SMBs to Large Enterprise.

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51 employeesYC W12Growth stage

Applied AI & ML Developer tools Cloud & infrastructure Social & community

Replicate

Acquired

What they do:

Run machine learning models in the cloud

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36 employeesYC W20Growth stage

Sales & marketing Social & community

Zyper

Acquired

What they do:

Recreating social networks for brands.

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35 employeesYC W18Growth stage

Developer tools Social & community

Courier

Acquired

What they do:

The fastest way for developers to build notifications for their app.

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35 employeesYC S19Early stage

Bump

Acquired

What they do:

Bump, Flock, Photoroll (unreleased) => Google Photos

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30 employeesYC S09Early stage

Gaming Productivity & automation Social & community

Guilded

Acquired

What they do:

Chat for gaming communities

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30 employeesYC S17Growth stageRemote

Social & community Media & entertainment

Product Hunt

Acquired

What they do:

The best new products in tech

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18 employeesYC S14Growth stage

Beeper

Acquired

What they do:

One chat app to rule them all

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16 employeesYC S21Growth stageRemote

Sales & marketing Productivity & automation Social & community Media & entertainment

Chute

Acquired

What they do:

Discover the photos and videos people are taking of your brand or…

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11 employeesYC W12Growth stage

Data & analytics Social & community

Pagelever

Acquired

What they do:

Facebook analytics. Acquired by Unified in January 2013.

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11 employeesYC S11Early stage

GlassMap

Acquired

What they do:

Location sharing. Acquired by Groupon in 2013.

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11 employeesYC S11Early stage

Posterous

Acquired

What they do:

Dead simple blogs by email

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11 employeesYC S08Early stage

Disqus

Acquired

What they do:

Add comments to your website.

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11 employeesYC S07Growth stage