Media Startup Ideas

5 years ago

Social media that caters to Indian users with an emphasis on comedians and other entertainers.

1,668

2 years ago

A company that helps small businesses create social media content and allows brands to promote their business on their social media pages

969

3 years ago

A way to find out what people are saying online about you, with a tool that automatically scours Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms to pull out potential customers.

690

4 years ago

A startup that lets employers access their employees’ social media profiles to see what they’re doing at work.

630

4 years ago

A startup that helps nonprofits build a social media strategy for their causes

555

2 years ago

A platform for small businesses to manage their social media accounts from one dashboard. The company’s goal is to make the management of social media easier for small businesses.

491

2 years ago

A tool to help political campaigns build and use digital media.

483

5 years ago

A small business marketing strategy and planning tool that lets small businesses measure their marketing performance across all channels. It started by focusing on social media and has expanded to include web traffic and content marketing, email marketing, and paid search.

470

4 years ago

A digital media production company that creates video for brands, agencies, and large video production companies.

465

5 years ago

An AI that can determine what a customer wants, based on their social media likes and shares.

457

2 years ago

A startup in New York City that helps people create video content for social media.

430

4 years ago

Pitchbook, a media company that covers the venture industry, has released a list of the top Y Combinator companies to watch. It includes several companies from the summer batch, including the following:

378

2 years ago

A startup that helps users with their collections of videos, books, audiobooks, and other digital media by providing recommendations.

356

3 years ago

A company that makes it easier for small businesses to sell online by providing them a way to promote themselves online and on social media through a suite of marketing tools.

353

5 years ago

A startup that helps brands develop an online presence in the Indian market by connecting them with the right media partners to place ads, run sponsored posts, and more.

329

3 years ago

This startup wants to build a tool that allows users to direct all of their social media traffic to a single platform, cutting down on the time it takes to manage multiple accounts.

319

2 years ago

A platform that helps brands create social media accounts for their business. It lets brands create social media accounts and gives them analytics on how campaigns are performing.

311

5 years ago

A “social network for influencers”, a platform for those who have large social media followings to connect with brands and offer free content.

310

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help schools, libraries, and museums share their books and other media with the wider world via the web.

308

2 years ago

A tool for restaurant owners to help them track customer social media posts, which the startup says can help them improve their service.

296

4 years ago

A platform that helps brands track social media conversation and measure the effects of social media campaigns. The company is working with brands like Macy’s, Next, and Starbucks.

292

3 years ago

A marketing platform for small businesses looking to leverage social media and e-mail marketing to build their brand and drive ROI.

286

3 years ago

A startup working to help the Chinese government monitor citizens’ social media activity. The startup provides the government with a “centralized feed of public activities”.

285

3 years ago

Combining data science and machine learning with social media sentiment analysis to predict the likelihood that a new product will be a hit.

283

2 years ago

A tool that makes it easier for people to create and share their own videos. The company wants to make it easier for people to create their own videos, whether they’re for social media or traditional media.

278

4 years ago

An AI-powered tool for investors to make more informed decisions about what stocks to invest in. The AI scans the news, stock market data, and social media to provide investors with trends and insights.

275

5 years ago

Collaborative legal system that connects lawyers and clients to serve as a mediation tool.

274

2 years ago

Social media monitoring startup focused on helping brands and agencies track sentiment on social media. The startup is focused on helping brands track competitors’ message and content sharing across social media.

271

5 years ago

A startup that wants to help companies get a head start on building a social media presence before they launch.

258

4 years ago

A Swiss startup that wants to help people find the best doctors online by rating them on social media and text messaging.

258

2 years ago

A startup that uses social media to help governments solve various problems. It’s a crowdsourced problem-solving platform that allows citizens to solve problems with data, pictures, videos and text.

256

2 years ago

A tool that lets you take a picture and get directions to the picture, and then share it on social media.

252

5 years ago

A product that helps small businesses create newsletters and marketing campaigns on their own and then find customers and investors. The company wants to allow businesses to reach customers and investors with email marketing, social media, and other digital media without having to hire a consultant or send out a large budget.

250

4 years ago

A digital media distribution platform for emerging musicians

250

4 years ago

A startup that helps people stay motivated to stay off social media (like Facebook) for healthier lives. The startup has worked with over 1,000 customers, with over 1,500 employees using their product.

248

2 years ago

A tool to help businesses manage their social media accounts and run campaigns across all of their channels. It helps businesses manage their social media accounts and run campaigns across all of their channels.

243

2 years ago

A startup that uses social engagement to measure how much time different topics and keywords are getting on social media.

242

4 years ago

A platform for small businesses to create campaigns and get free marketing from influencers and media companies

236

4 years ago

A startup that ranks articles written by users based on what they read, how they write, and what they post on social media.

232

2 years ago

A tool that helps marketers better understand the conversation happening on social media, helping them to get more out of their paid efforts.

231

4 years ago

A platform that converts digital media into physical objects, like posters or t-shirts, to increase sales.

227

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make social media more fun, enabling people to share their stories in a more immersive way.

226

2 years ago

A “platform for understanding and managing the impact of content on all social media channels,” with a focus on building tools for brands and their agencies.

225

4 years ago

A personal assistant focused on helping you keep up with your email, social media, and your calendar.

223

2 years ago

An online media platform for creators to share, curate, and improve their work.

223

4 years ago

A marketing tool that lets you track your social media interactions, and see which customers are most engaged, most likely to buy, or engaged at all. The company has raised $2 million in funding.

221

4 years ago

Pembleton is a startup that offers a “digestible” social media management service to small businesses.

221

3 years ago

A platform for social media managers to track and measure influencer engagement, traffic and sales.

216

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make banking more like social media. The startup is building a “challenging” banking experience that integrates notifications, product recommendations and social aspects. A new way to bank that would be more like checking your Facebook stream for information and then making a purchase.

215

4 years ago

A startup that helps users create and host video and video podcasts on their website and social media platforms, including YouTube and Facebook.

214

5 years ago

Social media monitoring, analytics, and management tools for businesses.

213

4 years ago

An online platform that allows its users to “recover” digital media, including photos, music, and videos. The company aims to build a digital library that it will eventually license to other companies to allow them to use the recovered content.

213

4 years ago

A program that helps businesses and nonprofits engage their volunteers through social media, newsletters, and email.

210

4 years ago

The startup’s goal is to use machine learning to help advertisers reach more people on social media

209

4 years ago

A startup that lets you turn your Instagram profile into a directory for all your social media accounts.

206

4 years ago

A company that is working with local governments to help them use the power of social media to bring transparency to city hall.

203

4 years ago

A social media management tool that helps companies optimize their Facebook page.

203

2 years ago

This startup wants to help small businesses excel on social media and build a reputation online.

202

4 years ago

A visual analytics tool that measures the impact of the content you’re sharing on social media.

200

4 years ago

A virtual assistant that helps with customer service, social media, and email. The startup wants to make it easier for small businesses to use AI-powered assistants.

199

4 years ago

A cloud platform for companies handling high-volume data including financial services, utilities, manufacturing and media.

197

4 years ago

A tool that allows employees to set up a flexible work schedule. This is currently in an early stage of development and has no immediate plans for the growth of the business.

197

4 years ago

This startup is looking to use AI to find trends in the social media posts of brands, to help them better understand their consumers.

197

5 years ago

A SaaS platform for companies to manage their social media accounts across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.

195

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build a platform that allows companies to create online courses in minutes and distribute them to email lists or social media. They currently have one client with a course on web design that had over 1,000 people sign up for it.

195

2 years ago

A platform for those who want to manage and sell their social media and content in a more centralized way.

193

5 years ago

An online-only, subscription-based service that allows people to buy and sell payments immediately from their bank accounts.

192

4 years ago

A company that is building software to help banks and other lenders connect to new sources of data like social media, livestreams and more, to get a better understanding of their clients and make better decisions.

192

4 years ago

A way to protect your privacy by using data from social media to “unmask the real, anonymous person behind a fake account”.

191

4 years ago

A platform for mediation of disputes like contract disputes, breach of fiduciary duties, or employment disputes. The platform is built on blockchain technology.

191

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for people to learn how to mediate in divorce cases

190

4 years ago

Experts are expensive and hard to find, but this startup is trying to make them more accessible to small businesses with a platform that offers social media marketing advice.

190

5 years ago

A tool for managing and scaling social media campaigns. The startup is based in the UK and has raised $4 million in funding.

188

4 years ago

A startup that is building marketing software for small businesses that take on the role of a marketer’s assistant. The software helps businesses manage social media, email, and website interactions.

188

4 years ago

A tool that helps brands and agencies create social media content that’s “faster, better, and more interesting”.

187

2 years ago

A tool for managing and coordinating your social media and influencer marketing efforts.

186

5 years ago

ShareWorks is a cloud-based tool for sharing media such as photos, music, and video. The startup also offers a paid-for mobile app as well as a desktop companion for editing and sharing.

185

4 years ago

A “social platform for people who hate social media”. The startup is looking to build a platform for people who don’t want to be on “social media” or don’t want their social media interactions on-the-record.

185

5 years ago

A startup that acts as an intermediary to help people travel abroad to work with companies

184

5 years ago

A tool that lets people manage their social media accounts on one platform.

184

4 years ago

This is a service for the social media influencer market. It lets influencers promote brands without the need for retailers to ship products to them or pay for advertising. It’s similar to Influential, though it appears to have fewer influencers on its platform.

184

4 years ago

A “Social Media for Real Estate Agents”

183

3 years ago

A tool that allows users to quickly take a picture of a document and have it immediately digitized and stored in the cloud.

182

4 years ago

The mobile app for keeping track of your daily finances, a feature of which is a social media-like feed where you can share your transactions with others.

180

5 years ago

A “social media productivity tool” that helps you get everything done by prioritizing tasks and scheduling them out.

179

3 years ago

A portfolio of companies that helps brands craft messages and create content for social media. The company is based in San Francisco and is recruiting for a sales team.

177

5 years ago

A new company to help people make connections in a city, using a “social media platform for the community”

176

4 years ago

A company that provides fact-checking and verification services to publishers and media companies

176

3 years ago

A company that helps restaurants manage their social media presence with their own digital presence.

176

5 years ago

A toolkit for marketers to create and manage social media campaigns.

175

4 years ago

A business that helps freelancers make a living on the side by providing them with access to a portfolio of projects, like a site or portfolio manager, social media management, and a customer service platform.

175

5 years ago

This search engine is trying to build the next generation of search results, with a focus on both social media and deep links.

174

4 years ago

A startup that sells an app that lets you take a photo, track it, and then immediately see where that item was sold. The company is based in the Bay Area.

174

4 years ago

China’s internet giants are increasingly dominating the global digital advertising market. A recent report from Digiday says: “Chinese social media and news platforms have commanded the lion’s share of ad revenue as global digital ad spend in the country has grown at a staggering compound annual growth rate of around 40% over the last five years.” How are these companies making money They’re using the vast audience of consumers on social media for traditional advertising.

173

3 years ago

An AI-powered platform that lets media teams shorten the time they spend on content creation by identifying which pieces of content will be most popular, as well as predicting the best time to post it.

173

3 years ago

A platform that helps people manage media content and make money on it. The company, which was founded in March, is a marketplace of videos, images, and other digital media that are monetized by users.

173

5 years ago

A social media platform that brings brand power to the local community. It works by giving brands a platform on which they can interact with consumers and promote their products.

172

4 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses figure out the best way to manage their social media marketing efforts.

172

3 years ago

Seeking to bring alternative dispute resolution to the legal industry, the startup helps companies to hire arbitrators and mediators in a way that they say is faster, cheaper, and more transparent than traditional law firms.

172

5 years ago

A platform that provides news content on social media sites

171

3 years ago

A platform that lets restaurants post photos and video of their food to social media, allowing customers to see what the restaurant looks like, and even eat the food.

171

5 years ago

Measuring the legal and ethical impact of social media.

170

5 years ago

A platform to help you track the media you consume by linking it to your social media accounts.

170

5 years ago

A company that makes it easy for brands to build and launch their own social media accounts, for free. They charge brands for the pages they create rather than charging a fixed subscription fee.

170

4 years ago

A company that helps brands create and distribute in-store marketing content across traditional and social media, allowing for a more efficient way to reach customers.

170

4 years ago

A startup that detects and manages flu outbreaks online. It’s a tool that is part of the bigger trend of diagnosing a disease via social media posts.

170

3 years ago

Social media for farmers, connecting them with others who want to buy their produce.

170

3 years ago

A startup that helps businesses and brands look at news and social media content, filter out the noise and deliver relevant content to their customers.

170

5 years ago

A social media community for artists and art lovers.

169

5 years ago

A product that helps e-commerce companies send out quick press releases to media outlets.

169

5 years ago

The company uses AI to detect and block spam images and comments. Its service is free for social media users.

168

5 years ago

A "social media for food" that brings restaurants and chefs together to create new menus and recipes.

168

5 years ago

A social media site for bloggers, with the goal of helping people find the most interesting content and share it with their friends.

168

3 years ago

A media sharing platform that helps people find and share content in a wide variety of formats.

168

5 years ago

a tool to help people measure and reduce the impact of their social media use on their personal and professional lives. It’s been downloaded over 1 million times.

166

4 years ago

A marketing tool that helps doctors and other healthcare workers efficiently schedule social media posts and ads, including on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

166

3 years ago

A company that helps event organizers and media companies do video interviews on site. VidCon has a large social media following and is known for its early dibs on new media trends.

166

3 years ago

A startup that aims to allow users to add content and offers to their Facebook posts and other social media platforms.

166

3 years ago

A startup that provides custom workflows for users to create and share content across social media.

166

3 years ago

A platform for managing your online connections, including social media, email, and other online contacts.

166

5 years ago

Idea: A workflow management tool for the development of media-rich e-learning courses

165

5 years ago

An AI-powered bot that helps people find and stay in touch with their friends. The bot, which launched in beta in May, has over 100,000 users and is being tested with some of the biggest social media companies.

165

3 years ago

A project from the MIT Media Lab that combines solar power, a blockchain, and a smart contract to generate renewable energy.

165

5 years ago

Software for small businesses to set up social media marketing campaigns

164

5 years ago

A social media marketing tool that lets you create posts, and then suggests the best time to post them.

164

4 years ago

A startup that offers a platform for entrepreneurs to grow their online presence with social media, email, and live chats.

164

5 years ago

A startup that is building a platform to help musicians increase their social media following

163

5 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to help brands identify the best time to post to their social media channels.

163

4 years ago

A startup focusing on building video chat applications for social media and messaging apps.

163

3 years ago

A startup that lets people earn extra money by taking photos of products in a store and posting them to social media.

163

3 years ago

This startup has a platform that empowers people to create their own social media profiles, with a focus on privacy and security.

163

3 years ago

A tool for managing your social media accounts, allowing users to see their entire social media feed on one dashboard.

163

3 years ago

A platform that takes a person’s social media data and combines it with their location data to identify how people regularly move around. The startup is selling to brands and agencies who want to track and understand how people use their products.

162

3 years ago

A startup that helps companies use AI to find new customers through social media. The startup uses Facebook and Twitter to see what people want, then finds companies that fit that profile.

162

5 years ago

A set of tools for publishing and managing digital media like video and audio.

161

5 years ago

A company that helps brands market to their customers using social media.

161

4 years ago

A product that helps people visualize how their social media presence is being used by brands. It’s built for small businesses, and is pitched as a way to help them manage their online reputation.

161

5 years ago

A system that allows people to request items from businesses by scanning a QR code and sharing the results on social media

160

5 years ago

A subscription-based social media platform that integrates with Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to share posts and access content.

160

4 years ago

Philadelphia is home to many notable media companies, including:

160

4 years ago

A SaaS platform that allows anyone to create, publish and promote content in a simple and effective manner. Users can publish their content, then share it across social media, email and messaging services.

160

3 years ago

This startup is building a “social streaming” feed that allows users to track how others are watching videos or articles on their social media profiles. The founders say this is a way for brands to see how their content is being consumed without having to ask for permission.

160

5 years ago

Another company looking to build a social media platform for dating, focusing on the Latinx market in the US.

159

5 years ago

A startup that’s building a business platform for people who want to monetize their own social media content and make money instead of just getting paid to post it.

159

5 years ago

This startup wants to make it easy for small-business owners to sell their products and services through their social media channels.

159

3 years ago

A platform that allows you to share and view what you’ve purchased on social media. The startup wants to be the new way to share what you’re purchasing, though it’s still in the early stages of development.

158

5 years ago

A platform for people to create, manage, and sell their own media.

157

5 years ago

A startup that provides a way to identify fake news by tracking the amount of engagement it gets on social media.

157

5 years ago

A company that lets you connect your company’s email and social media accounts, allowing employees to switch between email and social media accounts.

157

4 years ago

A startup for HR managers to create 'recruiter profiles' for key employees. The startup repurposes existing social media profiles for the purpose.

157

5 years ago

A startup that lets you do to your social media presence what you do to your personal email: use AI to curate your feed, and personalize it.

156

5 years ago

Media startups are often built on the back of a single product, such as Skype or YouTube. The company’s founders say its technology can help companies figure out whether a new product is worth the investment.

156

5 years ago

A tool that helps deep dive into the conversations happening on social media. The startup helps companies to gain insight into their customer communication.

156

5 years ago

A marketing and PR automation platform that helps businesses streamline their media relations and social media efforts.

155

5 years ago

A social media platform that focuses on live video, rather than posting to a timeline after the fact. Users can watch and interact with other users live.

155

5 years ago

A platform that helps big agencies and brands to get the best media deals at scale. The company is now only looking to work with publishers, content creators and agencies. It would give publishers more visibility into advertising deals in order to improve their sales and marketing strategies.

154

4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps companies manage their social media accounts and track their campaigns. For B2B companies, the startup is looking to build a tool to help manage marketing campaigns.

154

4 years ago

The company is building on the model of other online platforms that let you create a “Bitmoji,” an avatar that responds to text and social media messages; it’s a platform for people to create their own avatars for use on social media.

154

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can hire someone to help them with their social media presence (ie post on facebook, tweet, etc)

153

5 years ago

A startup that helps brands manage their social media accounts, including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

153

5 years ago

A company that integrates traditional and social media advertising, for smaller brands looking to do more with less.

153

4 years ago

Social networking for the LGBT+ community, with a focus on design and social media. It’s for people in the LGBTQ+ community and their allies.

153

3 years ago

This is a startup for organizations and individuals who want to start their own social media accounts that engage their communities, get more involved, and start conversations which can lead to more sales, more volunteer hours, and more donations.

153

5 years ago

A startup that provides a platform to help businesses manage their social media accounts

152

5 years ago

The startup’s mobile app is meant to help photographers plan their shoots, then let them share photos directly to social media.

152

5 years ago

A tool for tracking and sharing the status of social media pages.

152

5 years ago

An enterprise-grade analytics solution for social networks that makes it easy for people to see what posts their friends are sharing on social media sites.

152

4 years ago

An “agentless” marketplace for professional services. Clients can use the service to connect directly with these providers without the need for a human intermediary.

152

5 years ago

A digital agency that helps companies manage their social media, PR, and digital marketing. The startup is aiming to tackle the gap between everyday businesses and the marketing departments that need to manage them.

151

5 years ago

In the past year, the startup has grown to have over 500 media outlets and over 1,000 reporters and editors, covering everything from sports to politics, and local to international. They’re aiming to grow that to 10,000 members and double the number of journalists that cover the news.

151

5 years ago

A tool for helping retail brands track their brand’s data, including how their products are selling on social media.

151

5 years ago

Cone.io is a SaaS platform that allows companies to build their own social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram.

151

5 years ago

A platform for people to connect on a more personal level than on social media. A more serious side hustle to try to make rent.

151

5 years ago

A solution for the unstable relationship between digital ad buying and the media buying process.

151

3 years ago

A startup to help social media pages keep their followers up to date. The startup wants to build a more robust tool that works with a company’s social media accounts, allowing them to create a more active and engaged audience.

151

5 years ago

A tool that enables users to automatically draft and share social media posts

150

5 years ago

An API for the creation of short videos to be distributed across social media platforms.

150

5 years ago

An SDK for automatically creating, updating, and publishing content to social media.

150

5 years ago

A startup that lets users receive notifications when someone they follow on social media posts pictures of themselves.

149

5 years ago

A web-based service that helps small businesses grow their sales by managing their social media, SEO, and marketing campaigns. The company currently has 1,000 clients and are now hiring in the Philadelphia area.

149

5 years ago

A venture-backed accelerator that prepares social-media influencers to launch their own online ventures, helping them manage their social-media buzz and their brand and how they interact with the public.

149

5 years ago

A company that makes it easier to share your daily life on social media.

148

5 years ago

Their goal is to build a platform that allows people to earn money off the things they love to do, with the idea that there are countless opportunities to earn money from social media.

148

5 years ago

A platform that connects brands with influencers for advertising, sponsored content, and social media campaigns.

148

5 years ago

A software product that helps publishers track social media traffic.

148

5 years ago

AsteriskIP, AsyncOS, Asterisk, Catapult, ChorusOS, Comedia, Comunicore, ComX

148

5 years ago

A VC firm that invests in early-stage podcasts and other media.

148

4 years ago

A platform for social media content curation, with a focus on the financial sector. The company has been pitching the idea of creating “content factories” which can create content and deliver it in real-time to markets.

148

3 years ago

A way to help small businesses grow their presence on social media via a 'shopify for small businesses' platform.

148

3 years ago

A platform that helps users take pictures and videos in VR, allowing them to share them on social media.

148

5 years ago

A tool for getting a lot of attention on social media, especially Twitter. It's basically a social media management app that helps you build a plan for driving lots of followers, likes, retweets, etc.

147

5 years ago

Sunlight is an app that allows media companies to schedule video to go out live on their website with a single click. Sunlight’s CEO says that the app has already helped his company grow by up to 30%.

147

5 years ago

A platform that helps retailers figure out how to attract more customers through social media. It uses a combination of data and algorithms to predict who will sign up for their credit card, and who will visit their physical store.

147

5 years ago

A startup that helps people make social media accounts that do not violate Instagram’s policies with a tool to create a fake IG profile.

147

3 years ago

A design agency that helps small business owners build their brands with branding and social media. The company also offers a new kind of consultancy, called Brand Branding, that helps clients build their presence on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.

147

3 years ago

This app is meant to help you meet people and find dates, but it’s also a platform for B2B companies to do things like research consumers by querying their social media profiles.

147

5 years ago

A startup that helps brands create their own social media. The company is building a tool for brands to create a social media presence on other social media networks and manage their presence on them.

146

5 years ago

“A new type of data marketplace, we are creating a marketplace where you can buy and sell your data. Everything from your browsing history to your location data, and from your health data to your social media data. We are building a data marketplace that enables you to monetize your data.”

146

5 years ago

A company building a social media service that brings the power of a highly engaged Facebook group to a brand’s Facebook page.

146

3 years ago

A social network that helps people with disabilities share photos, videos and events with those without. It’s a self-contained platform that helps those with disabilities get social media posts and content out to the world.

146

5 years ago

This company wants to make it easier to sell people's old cars for them. The startup uses a site to sync with a person's social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and then finds their car on VIN-based sites like CarGurus and AutoTrader.com. Then, they'll take a significant cut of the sale price to buy back a car.

145

5 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup working to make it easier for people to share their photos, videos, and other media while on the go. The startup has an iOS app and plans to launch an Android app soon.

145

5 years ago

A digital platform for managing a team’s social media presence.

145

5 years ago

A social media app for content creators.

145

4 years ago

A leaderboard that uses push notifications and social media to let consumers know when their favorite brands are engaging with them.

145

4 years ago

A data product that coordinates the spread of data across government, health care, and media-saturated organizations. The startup wants to make it easier for people to share their personal data, and more easily with companies they don’t trust.

145

3 years ago

A social media platform that’s basically like Facebook, but focused on developing a community of artists who work together to create art and share it with their friends.

145

2 years ago

A startup for users to share and streamline shared media with their coworkers, and even with family members.

145

5 years ago

SolveMedia works with brands on digital advertising, and also helps them build out their own digital marketing systems.

144

5 years ago

This startup is building a three-dimensional, animated animation tool for clients in media and entertainment.

144

5 years ago

The startup is building a tool to help startups get more visibility into their customers. The startup wants to use data to build a “scalable dashboard” that allows small and medium sized businesses to see all their social media data in one place.

144

5 years ago

A startup that makes social media accounts for businesses/brands and posts unique content

143

5 years ago

A company that will help people market their business on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

143

5 years ago

A web-based platform to make it easy for businesses to grow their social media presence, through tools like a social media management dashboard, a social media scheduling tool, and a social media optimization tool.

143

5 years ago

This startup is building software that allows you to make your own personalized and short videos for social media.

143

5 years ago

Polldaddy is an app that allows users to make polls, collect data, and share the results. It works with most social media and blogging platforms.

143

5 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for brands to manage their PR, social media, and content distribution in one place. The startup is building a ‘media dashboard’ that allows brands to manage all their social media and PR channels, and track their performance.

143

3 years ago

This company is building a platform for sharing and publishing photos to social media networks. Users can pick from a range of examples and edit them until they’re just right. It’s an effective way to share photos, with some of the backgrounds and imagery being quite striking.

143

5 years ago

A startup that lets you create a site for a sports team in four minutes and then charges them a monthly fee based on their social media following

142

5 years ago

A content management system built on a social media platform, designed for agencies, PR professionals and creative entrepreneurs

142

5 years ago

A new way to buy and sell media. The company wants to provide a new lens on marketing and advertising and help brands use data to reach consumers more effectively.

142

5 years ago

An online tool to create social media ad campaigns, giving clients a way to manage multiple accounts from one place.

142

5 years ago

A digital marketing platform that lets companies target users based on their social media activity.

142

5 years ago

A media company that provides videos for doctors on evidence-based medicine, and for patients on everything from how to take their diabetes medication to how to use a wheelchair.

142

5 years ago

A new platform that creates targeted ads using the data from your social media. It’s not clear how exactly this would work, but the startup is hoping to “dramatically change the way brands target customers”.

141

5 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses understand how to use social media to help them reach new customers

140

5 years ago

This startup uses data from social media, online reviews, and offline interactions to help B2B companies make better hiring decisions.

140

5 years ago

A realtime database that crunches social media and digital marketing analytics from realtime sources. The startup is focusing on the UK market.

140

3 years ago

Want to get your employees to pay attention to their company’s social media presence but don’t want to manage the content yourself

140

3 years ago

Building a tool to help parents better manage their children’s media usage.

140

5 years ago

This startup is building a platform for turning the data generated from social media posts into leads, and then pushing that data out to sales teams.

139

5 years ago

A startup that’s building a tool to help companies manage their social media presence from a single dashboard. It currently has $12,000 in monthly recurring revenue, and charges a flat $5 monthly fee.

139

4 years ago

An AI-powered marketing platform for marketers working on social media.

139

5 years ago

A platform that allows groups to set up private social media accounts and run them as a group. The teams you’re a part of can choose their own rules and restrictions, so it’s a sort of Slack with a self-controlled community.

138

5 years ago

A software tool that helps companies track and analyze their social media marketing campaigns.

138

3 years ago

The startup is building software to help organizations grow their social media presence, providing a more automated process for adding a Twitter handle, Facebook page, and Instagram account.

138

3 years ago

A “personal assistant” for artistry, helping painters create and manage their portfolios, schedule appointments and manage their social media.

138

5 years ago

The company’s first product is a way to manage your social media posts across multiple platforms like Facebook Twitter and LinkedIn.

137

5 years ago

A tool for creating quick and easy surveys on your phone. The startup is designed for survey creators, but anyone can use it. It offers a mobile-first platform that lets users create surveys and send them immediately to users, and then open the survey link in another app on their phone.

137

5 years ago

This startup is building a tool that allows companies to build a shareable video about their business. Users can clip the video and share it on social media, and companies can see how many views it generates.

137

5 years ago

A startup that helps with digital media planning.

137

5 years ago

A tool for artists to build custom videos for their social media profiles.

136

5 years ago

A platform that lets you manage your video and social media presence from one place, allowing you to have a single profile across a variety of social networks.

136

5 years ago

A digital platform that allows users to build and share images and designs with other users. The company is working with a number of brands, including Walmart and Target, to boost their presence on social media.

136

5 years ago

A company that makes credit scores that are based on a person’s social media activity, rather than their credit history.

136

3 years ago

A company that helps small businesses and social media marketers find and communicate with their ideal customers using a mobile app.

136

5 years ago

A SaaS service that helps businesses manage their social media accounts, and make money from them. The startup charges a fee for the service, but it’s unclear how much.

135

5 years ago

A tool for managing and coordinating your social media accounts, with a social media management dashboard, analytics, and a way to schedule posts.

134

5 years ago

A social-media platform for contractors, designed for organizations with a small project or need.

134

5 years ago

A startup that plans to provide a way for people to quickly see when new content has been added to a social media platform.

134

5 years ago

A company that uses social media to measure sales. The company claims to be the first to use programmatic buying to measure sales.

134

5 years ago

A way to track the progress of a storm through social media and other channels.

134

4 years ago

A company that wants to create a GIF-like function for GIFs. The app allows people to make their own GIFs, and then share them through social media or email.

134

2 years ago

Fathom is a company that is making it easier to connect people with people who can help their ideas come to life. The company offers an alternative to the traditional approach of cold-calling people, instead offering a “media service” in the form of a “virtual assistant” that handles the follow-up.

134

5 years ago

A platform for managing and tracking social media conversations. The company’s first product is a chatbot that lets people manage their social media conversations.

133

5 years ago

A platform that aims to make managing your social media conversations more efficient.

133

5 years ago

They’re building a credit scoring platform that looks at your credit history, social media presence, and other things to predict your creditworthiness.

133

5 years ago

A media company that aims to help keep written content up to date by automatically updating articles with the latest information.

132

5 years ago

In the US, 90% of people’s social media profiles use photos, but only 50% of those photos are actually being used for social purposes. A company that wants to solve the problem, BuildFace is a tool that uses facial recognition to curate a digital photo-portfolio, using contextual photos to augment a person’s personal brand.

132

5 years ago

Causes that want to communicate with people on Facebook and other social media platforms can now do so through a Facebook-style private messaging platform that will allow users to send and receive messages through a growing list of apps and services. The company says the community is growing rapidly and has over 200,000 members.

132

5 years ago

A tool that helps you schedule and manage your social media presence.

132

5 years ago

A startup that’s building a system that lets users find out more about the background of the influencers they follow on social media.

132

4 years ago

A startup that turns your blog post or story into a video and helps you publish it to social media.

132

5 years ago

A “Social Commerce Platform” that allows brands to tie social media to their sales. The startup wants to help brands take advantage of social media to interact with their customers and drive sales. It’s working with a number of brands including Lululemon, Gatorade, and, most recently, Kia.

131

5 years ago

A system that helps people connect the dots between their physical and digital lives, that helps them understand the world around them. People can use the app to find out if someone has talked about them on social media, see if they’ve visited a particular location, and snap a photo of an item they want to buy and see if they can find it elsewhere.

131

5 years ago

A tool to help event producers manage their social media posts, customer service, and other communications. It’s an ad-free, content-focused social media management tool with 15,000 paying customers.

131

5 years ago

A startup that helps people manage their social media presence, making sure they aren’t posting the same content too often.

131

3 years ago

GraphQL is a way for developers to query a database in a more structured, and easy to understand way. The company says it already has over 50 customers in the finance, social media, e-commerce and music industries.

131

5 years ago

A company that helps you create real-time social media campaigns, with an app and an email builder.

130

5 years ago

People use the app to share their taste in music, movies, and other media. This is done in the form of collaborative playlists, which allow users to contribute music or art to a playlist, either anonymously or by providing a title and a description.

130

4 years ago

A startup that plans to decentralize the media industry, making it more democratic and giving users more control. The company wants to allow creators to be paid by their fans.

130

5 years ago

A startup that is developing a platform that helps creative agencies, brands and agencies capture and broadcast videos with social media. The idea is to help brands showcase their work and have the material distributed through a variety of channels.

129

5 years ago

A startup that provides a way to connect donors with nonprofits through the power of social media.

129

5 years ago

A karaoke app, with the company pitching a feature that lets users record a video of their karaoke performance and share it on social media.

129

3 years ago

A data analytics company that wants to crack the code on how to use data science to identify influencers in social media.

129

3 years ago

A spinoff from the now-defunct cloud-based gaming service Chuggaaconroy. This startup-turned-company is now building a platform for social media influencers to sell advertising on their Instagram and YouTube channels.

129

5 years ago

This startup’s “intelligent” bot helps branded social media users come up with content ideas. It then recommends a topic for followers to post on the social media platform.

128

5 years ago

A SaaS platform that aims to provide real-time updates for companies on their brand's social media activity.

128

5 years ago

A startup that wants to help organizations build better customer service experiences. The startup builds artificial intelligence to help organizations capture customer insights with its software. It claims to be able to predict customer service issues by scanning a customer’s social media activity.

128

5 years ago

A software startup that wants to create a way to automatically package and publish videos on social media in a way that doesn’t require extensive video editing.

128

5 years ago

An artificial intelligence platform that allows companies to analyze the sentiment of images and videos on social media, helping them make better marketing decisions.

128

5 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses create a social media presence, with a focus on Facebook and Twitter

128

3 years ago

A platform that aggregates various data sources like social media, web traffic, and others to help content creators create a more holistic view of their audience.

128

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can pay to have someone manage their social media accounts

127

5 years ago

WAM is building a mobile application that allows brands to better manage their social media accounts.

127

5 years ago

A tool that uses AI to make video playlists. The startup wants to make it easier for users to find new music and combine it with other types of media.

127

5 years ago

A company that helps media companies develop brand identities and distribution strategies.

127

5 years ago

A customer support platform for small business, allowing them to connect with customers via chat, email, social media, and phone calls.

127

4 years ago

A tool for marketers to promote products on site and social media. The startup is based in Brazil.

127

3 years ago

A tool that helps businesses get a better understanding of social media mentions and understanding the potential for customer service issues.

127

5 years ago

A startup that helps companies manage their “digital customer relationships”, including email and social media. It’s already live with companies like Nasty Gal.

126

5 years ago

A platform that helps people design and manage their own websites and apps, including social media apps, online stores, and email.

126

5 years ago

A “personal assistant” for media companies: It helps content creators find the people who can do certain kinds of things for their videos, and connects them. It also provides analytics and other tools for content creators.

126

5 years ago

A platform for the entertainment industry to showcase talent, with a focus on both live events and social media stars. The company is looking to build out a 20,000-person network for talent.

126

5 years ago

A platform that allows users to post content, sell products, and manage their social media directly from their website.

126

5 years ago

A digital marketing platform for companies that want to track their keywords, social media accounts, and email marketing campaigns.

126

5 years ago

The startup wants to work with small businesses to help them market themselves on social media.

126

5 years ago

A video platform that works across social media and mobile devices

126

5 years ago

A startup that allows for the “immediate and transparent” transfer of assets from a seller to a buyer, without the need for an escrow.

125

5 years ago

A software company built to help streamline the process of creating marketing messages and tracking the results. Its software can make it easier for companies to share their messages on social media, help them track how effective their marketing messages are and allow them to better understand what customers are saying about them.

125

4 years ago

A SaaS-based startup that helps retailers and brands connect with influencers and bloggers to create content that drives social media engagement and sales.

125

5 years ago

A platform that helps brands get social media engagement from their customers. The company is developing a micro-blogging platform for brands, with a focus on its “Brand Advocates”, who are Instagrammers who are paid to share and promote the brands with their followers. The company is nearing $2 million in funding after raising $800,000 in seed capital.

124

5 years ago

A software company that will allow you to optimize your photos for sharing on social media and other platforms. It’s not an editing app, but a service that analyzes the photo to find the best settings for the company’s platform.

124

5 years ago

A platform for tracking which email and social media inboxes people check, and which ones they just don’t. Their Co-founder says they’re already working with more than 1,000 customers, and their first product in the works is a “personas” platform for businesses, which helps brands better understand who their customers are.

124

2 years ago

A platform for people to build social media-like communities around their friends.

124

5 years ago

A web app that brings a person’s social media accounts together into a single interface, for use with Slack or email.

123

5 years ago

An “open-source ‘on-demand’ service for the generation, distribution, and consumption of media”.

123

4 years ago

A digital media studio that helps brands create top-quality videos by combining story-telling and media technology. The startup is looking to create a platform that is easy for people to use, allowing for professional-level video production at a minimal cost.

123

2 years ago

A platform for online store owners to generate sales from social media and search.

123

5 years ago

The company helps companies automate their social media marketing efforts by providing analysis of their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest accounts. A company can then run these analytics across all their accounts and get a report which shows which content is performing best and which posts are most engaging.

122

5 years ago

This company is building a chat-based social network for enthusiasts that aims to allow users to share their experiences and advice with each other, like Reddit or Quora. It’s a spin on the social media platform idea: instead of frequent posts from celebrities, the goal is to get your friends to post about their experiences and thoughts.

122

5 years ago

A simple blogging platform for creating media in the style of Tumblr or WordPress.

122

5 years ago

A social media app that claims to help people “organically grow their social networks”.

122

5 years ago

This startup provides a platform for people to to create a ‘personal AI’ to help them track and manage their personal data. They use data from your emails, social media, and web browsing to help you monitor your data, and create a personalized AI to help you manage your personal data, with the data you give them being anonymized.

122

5 years ago

A social media tool that allows users to upload selfies and then tag them with certain details. The startup wants to make it easier for people to tag a photo with information, whether it be the date or a description.

122

5 years ago

This startup helps small businesses build websites from scratch using HTML5, CSS, and Google Fonts. The startup takes care of things like a logo, social media, fancy blog posts, and of course, the website itself. The startup is based in New York.

121

5 years ago

A startup that tells you how good a product is based on Alexa ratings, reviews, and social media activity.

121

4 years ago

A tool that helps university students use social media to share and learn.

121

5 years ago

This startup is building a toolkit that allows users to take screenshots of videos and images and then add annotations to them, allowing the annotated media to drive sales.

120

5 years ago

An analytics tool for companies that want to measure and visualise their social media marketing.

120

5 years ago

A company that helps create a single app for managing all of your social media accounts.

120

5 years ago

A new way to store and manage your digital media. The team at Briefly is building a platform that enables users to “train” their computer to automatically organize and discover their files, and then creates a “smart folder” that’s a digital representation of the physical one.

120

5 years ago

A platform that allows users to share photos, videos, and other multimedia in a single place, and search for content by topic.

120

5 years ago

A startup that aims to help brands create a "more human" social media presence.

120

4 years ago

A platform for users to search, share, and rate content made by media companies (think Youtube, Vimeo, etc.).

120

5 years ago

A startup that helps people create more effective ways to market themselves on social media.

119

5 years ago

A company that says it’s “the Uber of community management” for social media teams.

119

5 years ago

A digital-only media company that publishes content and films for the YouTube generation. The company says its mission is to “empower creators” and “make life better for the next generation of influencers”.

119

5 years ago

The founders of this startup are former execs from major media companies including Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. They’ve built a tool to help brands and agencies keep up with the news, and have launched in over 2,000 companies.

119

5 years ago

A software platform for publishers to create, share, and monetize digital magazines. The company is a digital media company and content platform service provider.

118

5 years ago

America’s digital magazine is a digital magazine that is central to its mission is to cover the changing landscape of the media industry, and how technology is affecting it. Since February 2014, it has published a new issue every other Thursday and has a print-on-demand model, so subscribers receive their copy directly.

118

5 years ago

SMI (Social Media Intelligence) is a startup at the intersection of social media and data, which helps businesses get insights from social media. It’s helped “more than 15,000 customers” including GE, Ford, and the U.S. Bank.

118

3 years ago

A platform that allows kiosk users to pay for parking remotely with their credit card, and be refunded the money in their account immediately.

118

2 years ago

A tool for building, managing, and tracking a company’s social media profiles.

118

2 years ago

A tool that lets users create content and send it out via social media.

118

5 years ago

A mobile app that helps people manage their social media profiles. The startup is currently focused on identifying influencers and helping brands manage their social media presence.

117

5 years ago

A startup that wants to help you manage your social media accounts with the goal of making it easy to run the same account across multiple devices.

117

5 years ago

A tool to help create, share, and sync media with friends.

116

5 years ago

A startup that helps grow Instagram influencers by giving them access to a community of other social media influencers and brands.

116

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help companies automate their marketing campaigns across social media.

116

5 years ago

VaynerMedia is an advertising agency that has pivoted its business into a platform for influencer marketing, with the goal of creating “a financial engine” for influencers, allowing them to monetize their content.

115

5 years ago

A tool to help people organize and manage their media and the digital products they produce, with a focus on helping filmmakers produce and sell their work.

115

5 years ago

Transact is a platform that connects brands with fans via social media, allowing brands to target fans and offer rewards.

115

5 years ago

A company that helps companies create content marketing campaigns across all of their marketing channels — from email marketing to social media marketing to paid media.

115

5 years ago

A startup in MIT's Media Lab is building a system that can help detect and put a price on the different types of waste materials in a community.

115

5 years ago

Jumbler is a mobile-first media company that helps brands share content in rapid-fire video format, like Vine.

115

3 years ago

An API for gathering and analyzing social media data.

115

5 years ago

This startup is building a tool that can help you create a parkour map using a smartphone’s camera, then share that map on social media.

114

5 years ago

A startup that “provides an AI-powered, ad-free content-based search experience for social media that allows users to see engagement, content, and activity across multiple social media channels and news outlets.”

114

5 years ago

A tool to help people manage their social media presence, through reporting, curating, and scheduling.

114

3 years ago

This startup, being spun out of the MIT Media Lab, is building a way to tell if a video is real by looking at the physical world around images. It uses a combination of color and motion to detect if you’re watching a real video or a fake, and is currently in early alpha.

114

5 years ago

A platform that helps businesses manage their social media accounts. The company sells social media management for businesses at $10 a month, and has plans to launch a consumer version.

113

4 years ago

A startup that helps brands track influencers’ social media activity and potentially tweak marketing campaigns.

113

4 years ago

A startup seeking to raise $150,000 to begin developing a platform that tracks how a business uses their social media and how it affects sales.

113

2 years ago

Portion is a tool for creating and sharing recipes to help people cook more healthfully. It integrates with other apps like Instagram and Buffer to get a recipe posted to social media automatically. Portion is on the App Store.

113

5 years ago

It’s a data analysis tool for social media. It’s meant to help brands measure and optimize their social media campaigns.

112

5 years ago

A tool meant to help companies automate the onboarding process for new employees by using machine learning to read and evaluate new workers’ social media bios.

112

5 years ago

A social media platform for artists, who can use it to share their work and connect with other artists.

112

5 years ago

A platform that brings the power of social media to event promotion. The startup helps event organizers manage their social accounts, invite people to the event, and encourage them to talk about their experience on social platforms.

112

3 years ago

The company is building a startup in Ghana, where the startup says it’s found a lack of transparency and accountability in the local media.

112

5 years ago

A startup that helps marketers create social media content on a micro-benchmark basis

111

5 years ago

A “social discovery and recommendation” app that enables people to discover new products and services from their other social media accounts, without them having to leave a platform.

111

5 years ago

A social media calendar app, aimed at people who want to take control of their social media schedule.

111

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a tool that helps recruiters find applicants in real-time by using AI and social media

111

5 years ago

A library of video games and other media that you can stream online

110

5 years ago

A team of digital marketing and design professionals to help companies create video content for social media, website, email, and any other product-related content.

110

4 years ago

Using AI and machine learning to help social media influencers learn to improve their social media presence.

110

3 years ago

A workplace application that automatically analyzes emails to determine which emails are the most important and should be answered immediately. It’s trying to replace the traditional “email triage” process with a more targeted process that says, for instance, “take care of these 10 emails first, then this one”.

110

3 years ago

A media company focusing on the needs of the Indian market.

110

5 years ago

A platform that makes it easier for companies to measure employee engagement. It analyzes text messages, chatroom messages, and social media posts to provide employers with insights into what employees prefer, what their priorities are, and what they’re working on.

109

4 years ago

A way for companies to manage their brand’s social media accounts. The company wants to partner with big brands and tell them how to use the platform, then get a cut when they do so.

109

3 years ago

A cloud-based platform for media companies to make their content more discoverable and more accessible to their fans.

109

5 years ago

A platform for managing and selling social media accounts. The company plans to make a browser extension that will place your social media feed in a dashboard for you to see, and then allow you to manage all of your social media accounts from one place. It’s expected to raise $20 million in a Series A.

108

5 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses with tasks like marketing, accounting, and social media.

108

3 years ago

A $20 monthly subscription service that brings together all your social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc) into one interface. It’s the first product from the company, started in the fall of 2018.

108

2 years ago

A content management system that helps with content creation, distribution and sharing across social media.

108

5 years ago

A startup that helps brands publicize and monitor social media marketing campaigns. The startup provides analytics tools that track responses to social media posts, and offers an “automated plan” that gives brands a list of potential customers who would respond to a Facebook post. They’re currently working with a few companies.

107

4 years ago

A tool to track and visualize a person’s social media activity. It’s a hit with marketers who want to see the impact of their social media campaigns.

106

4 years ago

A startup that allows employers to find candidates to do side hustle tasks, like writing blogs or social media posts, for a small fee.

106

4 years ago

A tool for turning large images into small GIFs that can be shared on social media.

105

4 years ago

A SaaS platform for social commerce that helps e-commerce companies set up and manage social media pages.

105

4 years ago

A platform that helps brands get better responses through social media and chatbots.

105

4 years ago

A social media app that uses the phone’s geolocation to help users plan their day.

105

4 years ago

A software company that helps retailers and brands discover and interact with audiences on social media.

105

2 years ago

A platform to help businesses broadcast their message via social media in a more reliable and effective way. Currently focused on events, but is looking to expand to other areas.

105

5 years ago

A solution for businesses to track all their employees with a single dashboard, including social media data like likes and comments that can be filtered to show only in-house activity. The startup is aiming to make it easier to manage social media in-house.

104

5 years ago

A startup that helps businesses find tactics to help them engage with their customers through social media. The company has built a database of over 200,000 customers that it uses to get a sense of emerging trends and social media strategy.

104

4 years ago

A company that helps people learn different languages by tracking their daily interactions with social media.

104

5 years ago

A startup that’s developing a software platform that lets retailers design and sell customized products, like clothes and accessories, and then sell them via social media marketing.

103

5 years ago

A startup that collects data from social media networks and aggregates them into daily reports that can be used to measure the human conversation that happens on the internet.

103

5 years ago

A tool for creating and sharing custom image files for social media. The startup is looking to make it easier than ever for brands to create and share the right promotional images.

103

4 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for restaurant managers to automate their workflow, letting them have immediate access to an employee’s schedule and other information.

103

3 years ago

A social media scheduling platform, again aimed at small businesses, that helps them manage everything from social events, to meetings, to marketing, to sales.

103

5 years ago

A company that helps restaurants, cafes and other foodservice entities track social media and driver reviews, and use those to increase sales.

102

4 years ago

A platform that allows companies to connect with customers through their social media networks and websites. The startup is working with over 1000 companies.

102

4 years ago

A startup looking to create an AI that helps companies manage their social media accounts.

102

3 years ago

This is a company that wants to use machine learning to help people review and rank social media content.

102

4 years ago

A platform to create and share custom images for social media

101

4 years ago

A company that hires a team of journalists, photographers, videographers and social media managers to create content for companies to share on social media.

101

4 years ago

This is an online video platform for people who want to produce content without needing to learn how to edit video. The app helps users create video with professional-level effects and edits, and allows users to share their videos on social media.

100

4 years ago

A social media platform focused on art. The startup wants to create a community around artistic endeavors and sales. The company’s current campaign has a goal of $100,000, but is still running with a month left.

100

5 years ago

A social media platform that aims to be a a more transparent version of Instagram. It’s a service that allows users to tag each other in posts, and then share posts that they’ve tagged.

99

3 years ago

A startup that helps companies get better leverage out of their brands, especially on social media.

99

5 years ago

A SaaS company that helps companies sell more easily online. The company’s main product, Bizboss, helps companies build marketing campaigns across social media, email, search, and direct mail.

98

4 years ago

A platform for media creators to make money off their own content, without having to share their work with other sites.

98

4 years ago

A platform that aims to help small business owners connect with customers through social media, in the hopes of improving customer loyalty.

98

5 years ago

A software company that makes it easier for you to spend your money. The startup helps you find the best product for your needs, combining data from social media, news, and reviews to understand what you like and dislike.

97

5 years ago

A tool that helps businesses track their social media posts to see how they’re doing.

97

4 years ago

A new way to hire talent in the media industry that connects companies with freelancers and connects companies with talent agencies.

97

4 years ago

Activell is a browser-based service that helps companies track and report their social media efforts. The startup says it can manage Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram campaigns across the globe.

97

4 years ago

Made for use by beauty brands, ByNu is a $10 per month subscription service that breaks down your email marketing and social media data into a visual dashboard that shows you which of your social media posts perform the best.

97

5 years ago

This is a tool for managing your social media presence. It’s a bit like social media management firm Social.com, but for social media.

96

5 years ago

A tool that helps businesses identify the best-performing social media posts and shares across various media platforms.

96

5 years ago

A tool for marketers to create and track social media campaigns. The startup’s platform is integrated with Facebook Ads Manager and Facebook Analytics.

96

5 years ago

This company is building a social system for social media influencers to pitch products to their followers.

96

4 years ago

VentureBeat is an American technology news and media company based in New York City. It was founded in 2009 as a print publication, and has since expanded to include a website and mobile apps, and became a venture-backed startup.

96

4 years ago

A company that uses social media to track the performance of restaurants and other eateries. It’s created a system that automatically posts photos of food and service to Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

96

4 years ago

This startup makes it easy for people to organize their data. They’re hiring a COO immediately.

96

3 years ago

A tool that allows a user to visualize the most popular and trending stories across social media in real time.

96

5 years ago

A US-based startup that wants to help businesses and nonprofits track and report on their social media activity.

95

4 years ago

A company that helps people create high-quality videos for their websites and social media channels.

95

4 years ago

A simple-to-use tool that helps restaurants with online marketing automate the process of setting up social media accounts and managing them.

95

4 years ago

A startup that helps companies quickly and easily find and hire interns and low-cost labor for tasks like data entry, social media work, and other office tasks.

95

4 years ago

A new digital platform that helps businesses manage their own digital presence on social media, allowing them to have a single URL, a single account, and a single look on all their social media.

95

5 years ago

A platform that helps you track down the best C-suite candidates among your employees. It’s a recruiting platform that uses a combination of algorithms and social media for finding top candidates for specific roles. It’s currently being used by YC and other startups including FundingPost and Foodspotting.

94

5 years ago

An online campaign management platform that helps companies monitor and steer the conversation around their products, products that might otherwise get drowned out in the noise of social media.

94

4 years ago

A company that helps brands communicate with their customers in a more personal way. The startup wants to make a “human social media network” that works in a more organic way, where you can reach people with specific interests without the need for any kind of targeting.

94

3 years ago

A tool for companies to track their users’ social media interactions, including how much time they spend on a given platform.

94

5 years ago

A virtual assistant that helps people make sense of their social media profiles and other profiles. It’s meant to help people better understand their network and meet new people, and it’s already being used by some of the most successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

93

4 years ago

A startup that helps businesses monitor and manage their social media profiles, which they say is a $2B market today.

93

4 years ago

A company that’s building a new type of social media experience

93

4 years ago

A platform for workers to get paid residual income for their work, with investment options that pay out nearly immediately.

93

4 years ago

A company that gives home owners the ability to make a social media post about a bed bug issue in their home

93

4 years ago

A startup that “builds large scale social media campaigns for brands and agencies”, but focuses mostly on the beauty and retail industry.

93

3 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for brands to share their logo, designs, messages, and videos across social media and digital platforms.

93

4 years ago

This startup is building a bot for managing your restaurant’s social media accounts.

92

4 years ago

A tool that allows people to create a video of their daily activities, like going to work or getting groceries, and post it to a social media channel.

92

4 years ago

A web-based platform that makes it easier for content creators to manage their social media streams, with the goal of helping them better manage their brand.

92

3 years ago

The company combines social media, email and SMS to provide a personal assistant service.

92

5 years ago

A digital platform that offers storage, sharing, and analysis of all of its client’s social media content. The company has raised $21 million in funding to build out its public beta product, which went live in May.

91

4 years ago

A tool to make sense of all of your social media data. The startup is looking to build a tool for managing all of your social media data.

91

4 years ago

A startup that is building a service that highlights the best of the media industry, rather than the best of YouTube.

90

4 years ago

A digital platform for companies to develop and manage their social media accounts. The company has more than 1,000 clients, earning a revenue of $1 million in the first year of launch.

90

4 years ago

A startup that makes it easy to visualize and track what’s happening with social media engagement, as well as what’s happening within the organization.

90

4 years ago

A tool for creators of videos, photographers, musicians, etc. to upload their work to various platforms, like YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, etc. and sell it directly without having to deal with intermediaries like Facebook or Google.

90

3 years ago

A platform to help manage social media engagement. The startup uses artificial intelligence to help brands track and engage with their customers.

90

3 years ago

A startup that wants to use digital media to help those who work in the public sector communicate more effectively.

90

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make a way for brands to quickly and cheaply build an Instagram-like social media account directly on Facebook. Great for influencers who don’t want to deal with complicated Instagram accounts.

89

4 years ago

A platform that allows restaurants to send out real-time texts, emails, and social media messages to their menu items.

89

4 years ago

An artificial intelligence that can understand your mood, amplify your happiness, and then re-share it with the world. The AI is used to make positive social media posts, rather than negative ones.

89

2 years ago

An end-to-end platform for brands to track the impact of their social media campaigns.

89

4 years ago

Instead of having to manually create and manage your own social media pages, this startup is building a single platform for all your different social media accounts.

88

4 years ago

Andina is creating a platform for businesses to better manage their social media presence, with real-time social intelligence for key influencers.

88

4 years ago

An automated social media management tool, which helps companies grow by helping employees find and hire people better.

88

3 years ago

A startup that makes a wearable device that can detect the slightest inkling of a heart attack and call 911 immediately.

88

5 years ago

A health app that tracks patients’ movements and health levels, using the app’s own sensor suite, and sends alerts when a patient’s condition requires immediate attention.

87

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a way to make it easier for people to waste time on social media. The startup wants to make social media less addictive and more impactful.

87

4 years ago

Blogging software that helps coaches and other industry pros manage their blogs, tracking social media growth and other metrics.

87

4 years ago

A tool that allows users to create and share thoughts and photos without posting to social media. It’s a tool for maintaining privacy and control over one’s life and day-to-day activities.

87

4 years ago

A digital storage locker for media and files, available for download on the iOS or Android apps.

87

4 years ago

A B2C company that sells a system that allows parents to monitor their kids’ social media activity from their phone.

87

5 years ago

Idea: This is a social media app that helps users monetize their personal stories and connect with brands interested in learning more about their experiences

86

4 years ago

A platform that allows users to host their own events online, using a mix of location-based technology to lure attendees and social media to attract attendees.

86

4 years ago

An AI-powered marketing tool for content publishers. The startup says it helps publishers manage their social media marketing efforts and track marketing ROI.

86

4 years ago

A tool for people who want to manage their social media presence. The startup has a global team with offices in the US, UK, and China. It has raised $35M from investors including Sequoia Capital.

86

4 years ago

A company that provides a service for businesses to be able to book private gigs with musicians, comedians, and artists.

86

3 years ago

A process that allows music creators and labels to connect with fans on social media, using an old-fashioned phone call or email to get straight to the heart of the matter and figure out how they can make music together.

86

4 years ago

A software-as-a-service platform that helps B2B companies build mobile apps, customizing the experience for different market segments. It offers a variety of features from telemetry to payment processing to social media support.

85

4 years ago

A tool for marketers to collect customer feedback across multiple channels (web, email, phone, social media, etc.) and turn it into actionable data. The tool is meant to be used by marketers to help them improve their marketing strategies.

85

4 years ago

an online showcase of emerging artists, curated by a curatorial team. The site showcases a rotating selection of the best of a given category of art, and promotes the artists on social media and in the press.

85

4 years ago

A mobile app that uses the phone’s accelerometer to detect whether a user is walking and provide immediate feedback on how to improve eating and exercise habits.

85

4 years ago

A productivity tool for artists, allowing them to manage their portfolio, manage their commissions, manage their social media, manage their online stores, and more.

85

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform that enables companies to manage, track, and give feedback on their employees’ social media posts.

85

4 years ago

A "social media platform for people who already have social media accounts", with the goal of helping people create better profiles on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. In 2015, the startup raised a seed round from YC.

84

4 years ago

Employers can access a single dashboard to track their employee’s performance. Performance is measured across different channels, including time spent at work, friend requests, and the effectiveness of their social media presence.

84

4 years ago

A mobile app designed to allow teachers to pair student collaboration tools with social media.

84

4 years ago

A platform for advertisers to manage pay-per-click campaigns for digital media, including banner ads, video ads, and native ads. Its founder, Michael Poulsen, says he’s brought in $10,000 in revenue since its inception in May.

84

4 years ago

This startup is building a tool that designates specific parts of an app as “core”, “intermediate”, or “non-core”, which helps developers prioritize work and makes it easier to switch to a different language.

84

4 years ago

A tool for sharing and distributing files, with a focus on content creators and social media users.

84

4 years ago

A tool that helps companies grow their sales and brand through social media.

84

4 years ago

A new startup that helps startups manage their content marketing efforts, with an emphasis on social media.

84

3 years ago

A company that helps local governments and other organizations plan and manage their campaigns on social media.

84

3 years ago

A startup for media, enabling users to create, discover, and consume content.

84

2 years ago

A startup that incorporates social media and voice recognition for customer service

84

2 years ago

A tool for creating and tracking sales content, which they say has helped Fortune 500 companies increase their social media ROI by 33%.

84

4 years ago

This startup is building an AI-powered service that allows brands to send messages to their customers through their social media feeds.

83

4 years ago

A digital media studio that helps brands develop their own digital content, then distribute it through various digital channels.

83

4 years ago

A free social media app that lets you send and receive cash through the app

83

4 years ago

A tool to help businesses manage their health and wellness. The startup wants to “make health care as easy as managing your daily email, calendar and social media habits.”

83

4 years ago

A digital marketing agency built to help businesses compete on social media. The company wants to help businesses build lists, track engagement and build loyalty.

83

4 years ago

A company that helps you organize your books, documents, and other media into an easy, searchable library.

83

4 years ago

A startup that makes it easy to publish content and photos and other media to a variety of social networks.

82

4 years ago

A company that’s building a new type of social media experience. People can send videos to their friends and have friends vote on which ones they like or dislike, for AI to curate more interesting content.

82

4 years ago

A startup that wants to provide a platform for retailers to sell their products on their own websites and market them via their own social media channels.

82

4 years ago

The startup is building a platform for users to share their “likes” and “favorites” across all social media channels. Nuzzel supports Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and offers a way to see what is trending across all three services on one page.

82

4 years ago

A startup that helps businesses give their customers the ability to order products directly through the company’s website, rather than having to go through an intermediary.

82

4 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI to identify and flag “fake news” on social media

82

4 years ago

A platform that lets people create free, ad-supported media.

82

4 years ago

The startup is building a way to make it easier for the average person to sell their used goods on the internet. They’re currently crowdfunding a product that helps you list your used goods and get paid immediately via PayPal.

82

4 years ago

A SaaS offering that helps you cut down on the number of times you dig out your phone to make sure you’ve logged out of your social media accounts. The system is meant to make the account management process faster, more reliable, and less work.

82

3 years ago

A social network for artists. The startup aims to be “an alternative to other social media platforms,” by offering a platform where artists can connect with fans and fellow artists, while also selling artwork.

82

3 years ago

A startup that helps the small and midsize media companies that are often left out of the “big media” conversation. Medium is a platform for content creation, and connects with its audience to help those creators get their content to the next level.

82

4 years ago

This startup wants to be the “Google of Social Media”, helping brands manage their social media presence with a suite of tools.

81

4 years ago

A healthcare company that vets doctors via video and social media and generates reports on their abilities to practice medicine. The company already has a network of about 23,000 doctors on its platform.

81

4 years ago

A tool for shifting content from one social media to another. The platform connects to the various social networks that a business has, allowing them to monitor and shift their content between them.

81

4 years ago

A way for parents to manage their children’s social media accounts so that they are age-appropriate.

81

3 years ago

A company that helps media brands find and promote content creators on social media, as well as offering a suite of services to content creators. Currently has 1,000 users.

81

3 years ago

A startup that helps people get to know each other on the internet, in a social media-like way.

81

3 years ago

A startup that is building an intuitive platform for the creation of visual content that can be shared and traded on social media.

81

3 years ago

This social media platform is creating a space for people to post and discuss the things they’re interested in, which could include a new project, a new restaurant, or even a new way to get to work.

81

3 years ago

A company that helps companies find lower-cost providers for social media and search marketing.

81

2 years ago

A startup that helps users schedule social media posts and tweets, then sends the content to their followers.

81

2 years ago

A startup to help people and companies see each other’s social media presence.

81

4 years ago

This is a startup that wants to make it easier to keep track of all your social media accounts.

80

4 years ago

Little Bean is a digital marketing agency that works with companies to sell their products on social media. The startup, which was founded in April, has built a platform that allows customers to create custom campaigns on social media to advertise their products or services, which are then tracked by Little Bean, who will help the client optimize the campaign to improve ROI.

80

3 years ago

A startup that allows consumers to merchandise their own photos and videos to sell on social media.

80

3 years ago

They want to build a platform that gives people a fair market valuation for their digital properties, in order to ensure that when they die their websites are still valuable and their social media connections are not lost.

80

4 years ago

This startup helps you create a custom, personalized social media account. Their first customers are people looking to save money on their LinkedIn and Facebook accounts.

79

4 years ago

A digital currency for artists and creators, focused on content and media related transactions. HODL is focused on the US and UK markets.

79

4 years ago

A startup that has built an AI-powered platform to manage the growth of your startup’s social media engagement, allowing the company to monitor customer sentiment, measure engagement, and optimize their content.

79

4 years ago

A digital platform that helps brands manage their branding, social media, and messaging across all channels.

79

4 years ago

A tool for businesses to manage their social media presence and communicate with customers via social media.

79

4 years ago

This startup allows businesses to track their online/social media marketing, and also offers a way to get promoted for sharing interesting content.

79

4 years ago

This is an online service that aims to help people monetize their social media content.

79

3 years ago

A tool for users to organize their social media activity, sort it, and then see what audiences are interested in.

79

2 years ago

Helping people with their social media presence, the company gives people an avatar they can customize with different avatars that represent their different roles.

79

4 years ago

A tool that “brings your ideas to life” using an AI that learns from your social media posts to create animations, logos, ads, and more that you can then sell.

78

4 years ago

A company that helps small businesses get started on social networks. The startup funds small businesses to build their social media presence in exchange for a cut of their sales.

78

4 years ago

A startup that helps brands track their online social media conversations.

78

4 years ago

A platform for employers to hire people easily, without all the overhead of an intermediary.

78

3 years ago

A company that wants to make it easier for people to navigate their social networks, providing a platform for discovering content and communicating with others. The startup also wants to better understand how people see and use social networks. They’re working on a platform that’ll combine all your social media, messaging, and location data.

78

3 years ago

Finding a way to build a sensible online news portal outside of the established media networks.

78

2 years ago

A social media platform that helps advertisers with their social media strategy, via tools that help track programmatic marketing targets and which can manage multiple social accounts.

78

2 years ago

A tool for managing your social media accounts, posts, and pages, all from one place.

78

4 years ago

A startup that uses AI to promote its customers on social media. The startup is also working on a social media marketing platform that allows companies to attract more customers and grow their social media following.

77

4 years ago

A platform that automates the process of doing social media advertising. It uses AI to match ads to consumers based on their interests on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

77

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make money by helping companies to track their employees’ social media posts for each other so they can work more effectively. The company is currently in beta and is looking for partners to help it grow.

77

4 years ago

An “Uber for writers”. This startup is “building the Uber of writing jobs”. It’s an app that allows writers to get paid for their work directly, without having to deal with a third party intermediary. They’re already working with about 20 clients.

77

3 years ago

A company that wants to be the go-to agency for companies that want to grow their brand on social media.

77

3 years ago

A company that helps businesses create and monitor social media campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

77

2 years ago

A web app that lets users create their own recipes using ingredients from a curated list of ingredients, and then share them on social media or email.

77

4 years ago

A platform that helps brands manage their social media accounts. The idea is to make it easy for brands to create and manage multiple accounts in one place.

76

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help retailers and brands use their social media channels to get their products in front of people buying them.

76

4 years ago

A tool to help you manage multiple social media profiles, with a section for managing your Instagram account.

76

4 years ago

A company that mines the data from social media to determine the “most important” opinions of customers and markets, then uses this to help companies optimize their marketing.

76

4 years ago

Mobile-first media for small businesses. The startup is also looking to work with food delivery services and restaurants in order to help them integrate their services into their app.

76

3 years ago

A company that provides an AI-driven solution to automate the process of distributing content to various social media networks, as well as a tool for managing the relationships between the various networks.

76

2 years ago

A digital agency that helps businesses and brands step up their content marketing and social media.

76

4 years ago

A digital library for videos, books, and other media that are available to students at any time.

75

4 years ago

A company that helps you better understand your social media habits, so you can better market yourself and your business.

75

4 years ago

A company that builds software for social-media companies to manage their users' content, helping them manage the flood of content they’re putting out.

75

4 years ago

A tool that allows businesses to create a professional presence on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. The company is building a way for business owners to more easily manage their social media presence.

75

4 years ago

A startup that helps restaurants and bars use social media to gain more traction and improve their image.

75

4 years ago

A startup for users to share their photos, with the goal of creating social media content that can be a source of revenue for them.

75

3 years ago

A digital tool for measuring a customer’s media consumption and purchasing behavior.

75

3 years ago

A company that wants to provide the capital that is missing from the lending industry — a more traditional intermediary. The startup takes a better interest rate on deposits, with individual investments capped at $50,000.

75

3 years ago

A digital sales channel for small businesses. The idea is to offer businesses a way to make their sales more efficient by combining the reach of digital media with the efficiency of a sales CRM.

75

4 years ago

A startup-like platform for building social media profiles, curating other people’s content, and connecting with influencers.

74

4 years ago

A software suite that allows customers to watch their “spam” folders in real-time, allowing them to see which social media accounts are actually sending unsolicited messages.

74

3 years ago

A consumer-facing SaaS company that has built a platform to help brands, agencies, and retailers manage their social media presence.

74

3 years ago

A content marketing platform for small businesses that allows companies to create videos, then syndicate them to social media platforms.

74

4 years ago

A startup that is building a way for users to create and share animated GIFs within their social media networks. The company offers a free plan with premium features.

73

4 years ago

A platform that enables users to buy and sell tickets for events. The startup wants to make it easy to sell tickets for acts like musicians, DJs, comedians, etc.

73

4 years ago

An influencer marketing platform for advertisers, designed to help them work with social media stars to influence the purchase decisions of millions of consumers

73

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easy for social media marketers to target the real-life people closest to their customers.

73

3 years ago

A B2B mobile app for branded influencers with the ability to create and manage campaigns, with a focus on social media management.

73

3 years ago

A software company that helps with better management of digital marketing for B2B companies in China. The startup helps companies with data management, social media management, and use of AI.

73

3 years ago

A startup to help parents monitor their kids’ social media activity and limit their time on Facebook and Instagram.

73

3 years ago

A startup that helps users make better decisions by blending data from the internet, social media, and behavior.

73

3 years ago

The company's platform will allow any employer to hire and manage an army of freelance workers, and run jobs like marketing, PR, social media, and translation.

73

4 years ago

A startup that lets users pay for their own ads on websites and social media. The startup is also announcing its first acquisition, a company called ad optimization engine Storefront that has developed a technology to show ads to people based on their demographic profile.

72

4 years ago

A “pay as you go” media model, allowing content creators to provide a service they provide a portion of the revenue from, allowing them to build a sustainable business

72

4 years ago

The startup is building a chat app aimed at social media influencers, driving better engagement on their social media channels.

72

4 years ago

Software that lets companies share marketing and media assets via social media

72

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a tool that helps brands identify influencers on social media and use them to promote their products. The company has $1.6mm in funding and has partnered with brands like Adidas to boost sales with the help of influencers.

72

4 years ago

This startup wants to help small businesses manage their social media accounts. The startup, which launched in May, has customers in the UK and US, with plans to expand to Europe.

72

3 years ago

A startup for small businesses to create a professional brand by creating videos for their social media sites and website. The startup is co-founded by former Wistia and Sprout Social employees.

72

3 years ago

A "customer engagement platform", which is a bit like Klout, but using social media and real-time data to help companies design better customer experiences.

72

3 years ago

A company that helps brands find the best influencers who will help them set up their product on social media.

72

2 years ago

A startup that helps users create and manage their accounts on multiple social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Youtube.

72

4 years ago

A messaging app that aggregates all your texts, calls and social media interactions into one place, combining the messages into a single stream for you to keep track of.

71

4 years ago

A startup that allows users to connect their email with their social media accounts. The company wants to provide email notifications to users based on social media events.

71

4 years ago

A video platform that aims to bring the immediacy of Twitter to video. Users can receive notifications whenever someone tweets about them, and can share their own videos back to Twitter.

71

4 years ago

A startup that helps users share photos, video, and text to social media, all in real time. The beta was released in July 2019, and the company wants to scale to tens of millions of users.

71

4 years ago

A content management platform for the media industry, with a focus on social media.

71

4 years ago

A software product that automatically sends out marketing reminders for things like follow ups, social media posts, and store store openings. The startup’s founder claims that most startups have missed out on the marketing effort because they have forgotten to do marketing.

71

4 years ago

A startup that provides a software platform for companies to help them manage their social media accounts. The app provides a single interface for managing all the communications of a company.

71

4 years ago

A Facebook-style media sharing app for the enterprise, which it says is more efficient than the likes of Slack.

71

4 years ago

A platform that helps companies track performance by incorporating social media and customer interaction data into a single platform.

71

4 years ago

A social media platform for artists, letting them sell their talents and skills.

71

4 years ago

A “private social network” with a “pay-what-you-can membership” that’s meant to be a more private and fiscally sustainable alternative to social media sites like Facebook. The company is growing quickly and currently has 30,000 members.

71

4 years ago

A platform that helps companies build their own social media pages for their brands and their products.

71

4 years ago

A custom-designed social media application for fashion brands.

71

3 years ago

A personal assistant that can handle all of your social media accounts, and be a helpful tool for your personal brand.

71

3 years ago

A social media platform for barbershop owners, who can create a profile, sell products and collect revenue from customers.

71

3 years ago

A digital media business aimed at helping companies build their brand and promote to their customers. They’ve finished a 3-month pilot with a company and are looking for other businesses to join.

71

3 years ago

A startup that uses crowdsourcing to crowdsource grassroots marketing campaigns, driving social media engagement and word of mouth to drive sales.

71

3 years ago

A startup looking to build the most comprehensive website for pro-wrestling fans, available on all major social media platforms.

71

3 years ago

an app that helps people connect with the people who sign their social media posts with the hashtag “#BOOM.” It’s for people who want to bring attention to the topics they care about and make a name for themselves in the process.

71

2 years ago

The startup is creating a way for users to use their personal media content in presentations and meetings.

71

4 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses get more out of their social media advertising. Currently has a working prototype and aims to close a seed round and launch in early 2020.

70

4 years ago

Plaid is a startup that wants to help companies get a better understanding of their customers through social media like Twitter and Facebook. The company wants to build a product that helps companies understand who their customers are, what they like, and if they should be spending money on ads.

70

4 years ago

A “social media and content software platform” that helps users create, manage and distribute content.

70

4 years ago

A tool designed to help people in industries that have a lot of social media engagement (like travel) track and measure their social media statistics.

70

4 years ago

A social media platform with a paid plus subscription model

70

4 years ago

A tool for building media apps that uses the power of machine learning to find the best stock photos and audio clips. It’s a spinoff of the startup that develops the core infrastructure for sites like Pinterest, SoundCloud and Twitter.

70

3 years ago

A video production tool that helps you turn your video clips into music videos, gifs, and multi-media content.

70

3 years ago

Evernote says it is building “a new type of tool” that lets you automate tasks like tracking donations, managing media, and keeping track of important people.

70

3 years ago

Helping small businesses manage their social media. The startup is working with over 200,000 small businesses and growing as they integrate their service into their existing operations.

70

3 years ago

A social media platform that allows people to create and share short videos, meant to be used on a variety of social media platforms. The app attempts to make the experience of sharing a video feel more like “posting a photo” on your social media networks.

70

3 years ago

A platform that lets people send and receive money through social media

70

3 years ago

This startup is building a way to give consumers a simple way to create a virtual shopping cart via their mobile device. Users can scan products from a catalog and immediately order them. The app is currently available on iOS and Android.

70

2 years ago

A company that uses real-time facial recognition to tag and track influencers on social media.

70

2 years ago

A way to manage a company’s content across the different channels they use, including social media, SEO, and more.

70

4 years ago

A startup that wants to create a “social media marketing dashboard” for brands.

69

4 years ago

A startup that provides investors with information about companies they’re interested in, including their financials, their social media activity, and their networks.

69

4 years ago

A company that helps people find a new job using social media. The startup feeds candidates to recruiters who then give feedback on the applications.

69

4 years ago

A new software company that gives forensic analysts and law enforcement tools to find hidden illicit content on social media platforms.

69

4 years ago

A tool that helps make storytelling on social networks more structured by bringing the benefits of a bullet journal to social media.

69

3 years ago

A web-based collaboration and communication tool that allows users to create a “personalized news feed” for each of their contacts and instantly share with them via email, text, or social media.

69

3 years ago

A platform that allows people to control their own digital media by allowing them to create, edit, and compose their own digital media and get paid for it.

69

3 years ago

A virtual assistant that helps users connect their social media accounts to various accounts, like Gmail, LinkedIn, and other apps.

69

3 years ago

Open source platform to help people manage their online identities. The startup is building a system that allows users to see all their different social media profiles, grab profiles in an instant, and add data to them in one click. It’s a digital tool for people who want to manage all their social tools from one place.

69

3 years ago

Video sharing platform that lets you create a “mini-show” and share it on social media.

69

3 years ago

A startup that builds tools for creators of content to manage their social media profiles, as well as manage their fans, followers and followers-to-be.

69

2 years ago

A startup that helps employers and recruiters find the best candidates for their companies. It uses job boards, social media, and other traditional sources to identify the best talent for the companies’ needs.

69

2 years ago

A consumer engagement platform for retailers that lets them leverage social media and push interesting content to customers.

69

4 years ago

A digital advertising platform that serves as an intermediary between publishers and advertisers. The startup takes a 30% commission from ads sold.

68

4 years ago

A tool for scheduling social media posts, with a marketplace for influencers to buy the posts.

68

4 years ago

A social media application that’s like a “Facebook for people who want to get married,” with a focus on the bride's family.

68

4 years ago

The company is building a predictive service to help companies target social media ads.

68

4 years ago

First-of-its-kind product that tracks your kids’ social media, with an app that allows you to see what they’re watching.

68

3 years ago

A social media startup that allows its users to get away from their screens and get physical.

68

3 years ago

A tool that helps e-commerce businesses connect to their social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter, to allow customers to communicate with them via posting comments on their Facebook and Twitter pages.

68

3 years ago

A social media news aggregator for local news.

68

3 years ago

A tool that helps streamline the process of creating news stories, with a focus on the media industry.

68

4 years ago

A video and media startup in the Philippines that’s building a system that allows people to create and upload videos in real-time, and then share them with their networks in a live manner.

67

4 years ago

A workplace culture survey system. The startup is building a platform that helps recruiters recruit better by pulling together data from a variety of sources, including surveys, transparent reviews from past employers, and social media.

67

4 years ago

This company started as an internal tool to help small businesses manage their social media accounts, but has now launched its own social media app that helps small businesses manage their social media accounts. The startup says they have $250,000 in monthly active users.

67

4 years ago

An online platform that helps photographers create content for their clients. The startup offers clients a white label platform that allows for content curation, social media management and other services and helps photographers and their clients work together.

67

4 years ago

A desktop application that allows you to easily create custom, clickable images for social media platforms, which you can share out to the web or your email or SMS.

67

4 years ago

A company that allows people to create digitally-signed messages that can be shared across different channels, like email, text and social media.

67

4 years ago

A platform that lets users control their own social media behavior, alerting them when they’ve been “spammed”.

67

4 years ago

A startup that helps connect the dots between a person’s social media profiles with the businesses they frequent, enabling them to see the whole chain of connections.

67

3 years ago

A startup that monitors and alerts users of potentially harmful content on social media and the Internet.

67

3 years ago

A tool that helps users digitally store and organize their books, CDs, or other media.

67

2 years ago

An artificial intelligence tool that makes it easier for HR to screen job applicants, based on the applicants’ history on social media.

67

4 years ago

This startup wants to use the power of social media to help health care professionals treat depression. It’s a new kind of “social medicine”, using social media and technology to treat depression in a way that is more human and empathetic.

66

4 years ago

An ad platform that can be embedded into any website, allowing advertisers to track their ads across all major social media platforms.

66

4 years ago

A startup that helps companies with their social media presence. The company says it helps companies post content that resonates with their followers, and that they’ve delivered more than 1,000 social media posts for clients.

66

4 years ago

Allows influencers to link to their blog content on various social media sites. Users can also follow influencers and “favorite” their posts, which are then pushed to their feeds.

66

4 years ago

This startup, which is focused on local Chinese media, aims to build a platform to help media companies target ads to specific consumers.

66

4 years ago

A company that allows users to easily create and share photos that can be shared and downloaded across social media networks.

66

3 years ago

A platform for calls-to-action on social media, allowing users to quickly share a button on their Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat profile that drives traffic to a website or app. The site has more than 5 million active users.

66

3 years ago

This startup is using artificial intelligence to help brands define their marketing strategies by analyzing data in social media posts.

66

3 years ago

This startup is building a platform that helps users track how much they spend on social media and how much they spend on other parts of their life. The startup says that one of its users is able to save $300 per month on their social media bill by tracking expenses.

66

3 years ago

A business that helps young professionals around the world save their money for future goals and use it for their immediate needs. The company wants to help people with their finances and give them the opportunity to build a portfolio of financial products and services.

66

3 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for people to manage their social media and marketing campaigns from a simple interface.

66

3 years ago

A startup working to build a “simple way to talk with doctors anywhere, anytime” over video. It’s a tool for doctors to see patients remotely, receive instant feedback on a diagnosis, and make immediate adjustments.

66

3 years ago

A platform that brings in and organizes the data collected by all social media platforms, including email and texts, to create a single source of information.

66

4 years ago

KVRP-FM is a radio station broadcasting at 88.1 MHz in San Marcos, Texas which airs an Adult Contemporary format. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation.

65

4 years ago

A company building a platform to make it easier to get paid for sharing things on the web. The startup aims to make it easier for users to take credit for their work, rather than paying fees to an intermediary.

65

4 years ago

An online media publishing tool for creating and curating videos for social media and targeted website traffic. The startup wants to make it easier to create and distribute visuals for any social media platform.

65

4 years ago

A startup for small and medium-size companies willing to try a technology that can track employee productivity by measuring their social media activity.

65

4 years ago

Building a bot for managing an indie game studio’s social media. The startup wants to help indie games studios manage their social media accounts.

65

4 years ago

An adtech company that enables brands to reach the most relevant people on social media. The company is working on the front end of how social media ads are shown and paid.

65

4 years ago

A platform for merchants to sell on social media. The platform helps people find products in the app and allows them to share the sale with a crowd of their friends.

65

3 years ago

A tool for selling tickets for events, with a built-in ticket-buying tool and a way to share them across social media. The startup has a $1 million seed round, and has sold $5 million worth of tickets.

65

3 years ago

A company that helps companies with advertising, media buying and analytics. They’re building an API for the B2B biz, and have managed to secure $4.5 million in funding so far.

65

3 years ago

A new way to create animated GIFs using any video file and a smartphone. The app allows you to build a GIF quickly and share it on social media.

65

3 years ago

A media company that helps content creators find sponsors for their work. The company’s founders are former employees at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

65

3 years ago

The company claims that its software allows people to get paid for their time spent texting and talking to their customers, making it easier for social media influencers to generate a living from promoting brands without having to have an expensive advertising budget.

65

3 years ago

A tool to use social media to help patients find the best doctors for their health conditions. It’s similar to the health insurance comparison website The Doctors or the insurance comparison website Health Grades.

65

2 years ago

A platform for businesses to connect with customers, allowing brands to reach customers directly via email and social media.

65

4 years ago

A tech startup focused on improving the industry of tech and tech journalism and tech media. The organization aims to “promote tech as a force for good, and tech innovation as a key factor in improving people’s lives.”

64

4 years ago

This startup aims to make it easy to create an online profile for your business, letting you build relationships with customers through social media.

64

4 years ago

A platform that allows small businesses to use their existing websites to sell online, using their existing social media channels.

64

4 years ago

A company that uses machine learning to help brands analyze social media data to increase their ad spend. They have over 12,000 clients worldwide, including Disney, ESPN, and Coca-Cola.

64

4 years ago

A digital assistant for the elderly that helps them with finances, shopping and social media.

64

4 years ago

A tool that lets companies find their customers’ social media influencers, and helps them find their fans online. The startup is based in New York City and already works with over a dozen companies.

64

4 years ago

A B2B software company that helps companies build marketing automation capabilities into their websites. Aimed at small businesses, it helps automate email marketing, social media marketing, and prospecting.

64

4 years ago

A startup that helps digital marketers understand which of their customers are most engaged on social media, with tools to measure various factors.

64

4 years ago

This is a “social media for stores”, letting retailers create their own social media accounts to tell their cool stories and promote their products. It was one of the first startups to launch out of YC, and is 12 people now.

64

3 years ago

A company that helps brands track their social media performance and how their social media strategy is affecting their business. They’re also working on an ad-tech product for Facebook.

64

3 years ago

A private chat app for groups that allows for encrypted group chats with shared access to files, photos and other media

64

3 years ago

SaaS for B2B and B2C organizations to build, monitor and manage their social media campaigns.

64

3 years ago

Is building an AI platform for HR. They are working with multiple clients across different industries, including media and entertainment and health care.

64

3 years ago

A data visualization tool that helps companies and brands understand social media conversations around them.

64

3 years ago

A startup for people who take long flights to track their flights with an app that includes social media integration.

64

3 years ago

A company that allows people to sell their used cars without having to sell them themselves, instead allowing some sort of intermediary to do it for them.

64

3 years ago

This is a “mobile-first” social media platform for people who hate social media.

64

3 years ago

A tool that helps developers to easily create their own social media games and market it through their own app stores

64

3 years ago

A tool for making automatic subscriptions to media outlets from a variety of content types.

64

3 years ago

An adtech company building an AI that optimizes ad placement across social media sites. It uses machine learning to identify the most appropriate regions to place ads.

64

2 years ago

A SaaS analytics app that simplifies the process of managing and reporting on social media marketing campaigns.

64

4 years ago

A platform that consolidates all of your social media accounts into one place,

63

4 years ago

A social engagement analytics tool that tells agencies how they’re doing on social media, and one of the first startups based in New York City to start working in social media.

63

4 years ago

This company, together with the MIT Media Lab, is developing a 3D printer that can print any object with a human face.

63

3 years ago

A “social shopping” app that helps people discover and buy items that they like. The startup hopes to create the first social media-powered shopping platform.

63

3 years ago

A way to create and shape material for TV shows and movies. The startup, which was founded in January, is building the software that powers a social media-style fan network for TV shows and movies, allowing fans to create and join communities around their favorite content.

63

3 years ago

A start-up that helps organizations manage their data through a centralized system, allowing them to get immediate insights into the data they need to make better business decisions.

63

3 years ago

A new take on social media for Millennials: streamlining the process of reporting content that is offensive, abusive, or otherwise violates your community standards.

63

3 years ago

The goal of the company is to create a platform that will allow users to upload videos, photos and articles, and have them linked across social media platforms - Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. The company has offices in New York and Zurich.

63

3 years ago

A startup that is creating a digital-first SaaS platform for brands to create and manage their own branded apps, with an emphasis on social media.

63

4 years ago

A set of business applications for social media managers to make their jobs easier. Manage your team, track your influencers, and manage your clients, all in one place.

62

4 years ago

A new way of looking at how to use the internet. The company aims to help users break free from the internet and its addictive habits, like checking email and social media.

62

4 years ago

A sales and marketing automation tool that gives salespeople a way to communicate with customers through email, chat, phone and social media. The company is also building a better CRM and lead management system.

62

4 years ago

An analytics tool for brokers that builds a portfolio of clients by using social media and data, then provides a tool to help measure portfolio performance.

62

4 years ago

A platform that helps organizations and brands with the management of their brand content across multiple channels, including social media, email, and website.

62

3 years ago

An open source app that lets users “natively share their daily life on social media”. It also allows them to create “life progress reports” that they share with friends and family.

62

3 years ago

A platform to help owners of small agencies and freelancers get paid faster. Y Combinator-backed startup that’s already working with some of the biggest names in media.

62

3 years ago

A startup that makes it easier to manage social media accounts, and also gives users the ability to create their own custom hashtags.

62

3 years ago

A social media management platform that helps businesses target their audiences across social media. The startup aims to help small businesses with relatively small marketing budgets to make the most of their social media budgets.

62

3 years ago

The founder of the company, a guy named John, started coding Windows in the 1990s, and has since been working with Microsoft as a technical advisor. He’s now building a new social media platform that aggregates all the social media sites from around the world into one place, with the goal of creating a single, unified platform for social media for the world.

62

3 years ago

Transrecovery is building a platform that helps people better interact with their social media, helping them to find more personal, intimate and realistic content.

62

2 years ago

A tool for publishing photos, videos, and text to social media.

62

2 years ago

Social intelligence tool that aims to “oversee the social media environment” so companies can know what’s “normal” and what’s “not”.

62

4 years ago

A non-profit that is building a strategic communications and social media campaign to help bring clean water to the world’s poorest people.

61

4 years ago

As of 2017, China’s biggest internet companies are Tencent, WeChat, Weibo, and Baidu. These companies have all been spending heavily on Facebook and Instagram ads, which have grown rapidly in the region. For example, WeChat spent $6.5 billion on ads in 2018 and Baidu spent $3.6 billion. Top global brands are also spending heavily on Chinese social media. For example, Coca-Cola has spent $2.2 billion on WeChat ads since February 2018.

61

4 years ago

Instead of using a team of people to go and measure your house, the founders of Wallflower have created a system that helps you take photographs of the interior of your house that you can post to social media with just the push of a button.

61

4 years ago

A data-driven content marketing platform that helps companies increase the average time they devote to social media content.

61

4 years ago

A content marketing platform that helps travel influencers curate and share content in real-time. It’s a full-service marketing company that helps travel influencers like authors and hosts to manage their social media presence, book tours, and content marketing.

61

3 years ago

A company that helps you manage your digital assets, like social media accounts or email addresses, through a single mobile app.

61

3 years ago

A startup that helps parents track what their kids are doing on social media. The startup is focused on the US market, but is also considering expanding internationally.

61

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help banks deal with "intermediary" services, like payroll and benefits.

61

3 years ago

A company that helps law firms and lawyers use social media to broadcast their work and generate leads. It’s a free service that’s billed on a monthly basis.

61

3 years ago

A company that helps customers promote their message on social media without paying for it.

61

3 years ago

A company that works with brands to create custom content that is shareable across social media platforms.

61

3 years ago

A platform that enables you to get paid for your content, such as blog posts, videos, photos, etc. from their website, blog, and social media accounts, providing an avenue for publishers to get paid for their content.

61

3 years ago

A tool that connects people who want to buy a house with those who want to sell one. There’s no direct transaction, but the startup allows you to show up at a potential home owner’s house and show interest. When both parties agree, they enter into negotiations that are mediated by the startup. The company says it has signed up over 1,100 clients.

61

3 years ago

This startup is developing an AI-driven, machine learning-based system that uses data from users’ social media profiles to match them with their ideal matches in a market where black swan events like the US election created a shortage of marriageable men.

61

3 years ago

A company aiming to build a frictionless, AI-powered, social media-based marketing platform.

61

2 years ago

A platform to help people get paid for their skills in the gig economy, offering a way to get paid immediately for a skill you already have.

61

2 years ago

A startup for brand ambassadors to earn money on their social media channels. The company’s founders say that it’s growing quickly, and that they’re already working with 50 brands and have over 1,000 ambassadors.

61

4 years ago

A place for all the comedians and comedy fans to come together and talk about comedy.

60

3 years ago

A company that offers a way for media companies to manage their content pipeline, with the startup saying it’s already working with “a couple hundred” companies.

60

2 years ago

Provides a “decentralized asset exchange” for cryptocurrencies. The startup wants to create a trading platform for digital assets without the need for a government-run intermediary.

60

4 years ago

A way to help people spend less time on social media using services like Trello that allow people to organize their tasks.

59

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help people use their own existing content as a source for their brands. It’s essentially a feed builder for social media, where a user can build a feed from their own feed. The startup’s founders say they’ve reached 10,000 users right after launching, and have doubled in size in the past month.

59

4 years ago

A tool that helps brands and influencers increase social media engagement

59

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform for brands to “sell directly to influencers”, by tracking influencer conversations about a brand and connecting them with that brand’s social media team.

59

3 years ago

A tool for creating personalized videos for social media. The startup says they have 20 employees and are profitable and growing in the US, with a 10% conversion rate.

59

3 years ago

The startup wants to use AI to scour the web for posts, contacts, and images of famous people and then match them to people who would benefit from learning from what they’ve achieved. It’s a kind of crowdsourced social media, with a revenue share model.

59

3 years ago

Combining crowdsourced journalism and social media, this startup aims to help reporters tell stories that otherwise wouldn’t have a chance to be told.

59

3 years ago

A premium social media app for businesses that helps them become more efficient and build the best customer experiences.

59

3 years ago

A startup that lets users find and book the cheapest rates for autonomous cars. If a consumer finds a good deal, they can request a ride from their phone and be picked up immediately.

59

3 years ago

A “social network for artists”. The startup is working on building a “multimedia platform for entrepreneurs, engineers, and creatives”.

59

3 years ago

A video-producing app that automatically creates animated GIFs for social media. They’re looking for funding to expand into the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe.

59

3 years ago

A tool that aims to help companies get a better sense of their social media performance, with a dashboard for teams to see all their online conversations.

59

3 years ago

A startup for parents to monitor their kids’ phone and social media usage.

59

3 years ago

A software platform that helps bring your social media content into a professional marketing platform, allowing companies to more easily share their content.

59

2 years ago

This startup wants to help companies with their marketing and social media strategy. They’re building a suite of tools that help companies draft messages, find influencers, and manage their social channels.

59

2 years ago

A database for sharing and tracking the inventory of physical products, like books, videotapes, and other media. It’s CEO says it’s like the Google Docs of physical products.

59

4 years ago

A digital marketing platform that helps brands manage their digital media across multiple platforms (Google, Facebook, Instagram).

58

4 years ago

A platform that lets a brand manage their marketing, social media, and search on one platform. It’s available as a hosted service, or on the IBM Cloud as a managed service.

58

3 years ago

A SaaS platform that provides a suite of tools that help companies test their social media posts and ads.

58

3 years ago

A new social media app that lets users identify and connect with their friends and followers who are online. The company helps users find and follow content creators, allowing for more targeted social media posts.

58

3 years ago

“The ‘as soon as’ time frame is the biggest problem with e-commerce,” said Sood. “A lot of people have a desire to buy, but they don’t have an immediate need.”

58

3 years ago

A startup that is building a social media aggregator, hoping to take on Facebook and Twitter. The company aims to be the place people go when they want to share a photo or tweet

58

4 years ago

A tool to make it easier to create social media profiles and run ads on top of them.

57

4 years ago

A startup that helps companies maintain their brand and social media presence with a tool that’s meant to encourage engagement, build community and sales.

57

3 years ago

We’re in the middle of a renaissance of public speaking, with the rise of social media, and a rise in the popularity of TED Talks. But there’s a gaping hole where public speaking training and public speaking coaching should be. The founders of VLIVE want to solve the problem by providing live public speaking training and coaching to individuals based on their level of comfort.

57

3 years ago

A platform that manages the creation and distribution of custom-designed digital media.

57

3 years ago

A startup that helps users create a social media account and then promote it to their friends and family, with the goal of getting them to help make a purchase.

57

3 years ago

This startup is building a tool that allows you to prioritize content in a way similar to how you prioritize friends and family on Facebook. It’s a unique way to manage your media consumption, but it’s also a way to manage your media consumption that’s competitive with Facebook.

57

3 years ago

A company that builds data visualizations for the media market. Launched in December 2016, the startup was founded by a former Google product manager.

57

2 years ago

A tool to help people mediate conflicts, with a focus on housing disputes.

57

2 years ago

A startup for artists to find new collaborators and buyers, allowing them to find collaborators and buyers using their profiles and social media activity.

57

4 years ago

A machine learning-based chatbot that offers live chat session support and will eventually be able to chat with customers via social media platforms like Facebook.

56

3 years ago

A startup that aims to bridge the gap between enterprise software and consumer software. It’s currently targeting the enterprise by offering enterprise features to consumer software (such as simple drag and drop to move photos around the screen, or an app that automatically shares posts to social media.)

56

3 years ago

This startup is building a platform for people to share their online media, with a mobile app that makes it easy to find these videos.

56

3 years ago

A visual tool for assessing a business’s marketing performance. It’s using data to show the effectiveness of different marketing channels, from keyword searches to social media shares, and pinpoint where to focus their marketing efforts.

56

3 years ago

A collection of tools that helps advertisers track mobile users across various platforms, including mobile web, mobile apps, and social media. The startup helps people find the right audiences to be targeted on various platforms.

56

3 years ago

An AI-powered tool for social media marketers, allowing them to increase the reach of their posts, and filling in all of the gaps in the traditional social media marketing process.

56

3 years ago

The company is looking to build a database of digital influencers (i.e. people with lots of social media followers) so that businesses can reach them. The company says it can help companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and Vogue Magazine build a database of influencers to help them make better product recommendations.

56

3 years ago

A startup that wants to build a platform for data-driven hospitality and retail companies to connect with users and learn how they like to shop and travel. The platform aims to offer up a better system for companies to get feedback on their products though social media.

56

3 years ago

A social media marketing platform that helps drive down costs of digital marketing.

56

4 years ago

The startup has built a platform that lets businesses engage with their customers in real-time. The startup has built an app that lets customers do live polls via social media and allows businesses to engage with their customers.

55

4 years ago

Takes the hassle out of managing your business’s digital presence with a single platform, with tools for editing and sharing your website, e-mail and social media posts.

55

3 years ago

The startup is building a platform to facilitate the creation of immersive media experiences. The startup is building a VR/AR platform to allow people to create experiences.

55

3 years ago

A platform that allows co-working spaces to create “pay one month and share the following month” types of agreements without having to hire an intermediary.

55

3 years ago

A content platform to help agencies generate more traffic from social media.

55

3 years ago

Social media for the affluent, for people who want to spend more on their social media habits and keep tabs on their friends’ lives.

55

3 years ago

A startup that helps people design marketing campaigns, much like the “Superbowl of social media” - Travail.

55

3 years ago

This startup is building a way for people to buy music, movies, or games without having to log into their social media accounts

55

3 years ago

A tool for companies to create and manage their internal social media presence, with a focus on sharing and connecting with customers.

55

3 years ago

An AI that can tell when you’re faking emotions on social media, to help advertisers figure out how to reach you.

55

3 years ago

The startup is building a tool that lets you monitor what you’re doing on social media, and offer to make suggestions on how to improve it.

55

3 years ago

Combing data from local government, social media, and other sources to help police identify and locate gang members.

55

2 years ago

A user-friendly mobile app that tracks your health and fitness, and lets you get immediate advice from your doctor.

55

4 years ago

A tool for users to create and manage unique, customizable, animated GIFs by picking from a set of templates. The GIFs are then published to social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

54

3 years ago

A company that helps you tailor your personal brand on social media, using templates and photos to create a signature personal brand.

54

3 years ago

A tool for home-based business owners to manage all aspects of their online presence, such as: online stores, social media, advertising, marketing, and more.

54

3 years ago

A new kind of social media platform that lets you follow celebrities and brands, but also lets you follow the real people behind them — the people who make things and make things happen, who are the creative force behind a brand.

54

3 years ago

A startup that’s trying to build a system for helping farmers get paid for their crops. The company says that for every 100 lbs of crops, farmers need to pay between $50 and $300 to intermediaries. In the future, it’s looking to automate the process of matching farmers to buyers, cutting out the middlemen.

54

3 years ago

A software platform to store and manage a company’s social media accounts and work with all the different sites a company uses to manage its social media.

54

3 years ago

A media company created by people who’ve been burned by the time, energy, and money they’ve spent on traditional content-management tools. The company is working to build a new type of content management platform for the podcast industry.

54

3 years ago

A platform that allows people to share their photos, videos, and stories in a more social setting. The startup is meant for people who want to share their stories but aren’t comfortable with the “traditional” media.

54

3 years ago

This is a startup that wants to be the next-generation of social media, where people can create ephemeral messages that disappear after a few hours.

54

3 years ago

A platform that allows brands to measure and analyze their customer’s attention to social media and other digital platforms.

54

3 years ago

A “social media community” platform, where users can create their own communities of content and comment on each others’ posts.

54

3 years ago

The company builds a service that allows companies to host their own Slack channels and other social media-like features within the Facebook platform.

54

3 years ago

A SaaS-based platform that allows employers to create bespoke social media campaigns that can be targeted at specific segments of their audience.

54

3 years ago

A social media platform that allows users to broadcast online without the need for a network connection, the founders claim it’s the first of its kind.

54

3 years ago

A “media platform for companies”.

54

2 years ago

Short for “mobile-first content”, this startup aims to use AI to publish information like news and content on social media that is tailored to each user and their context.

54

2 years ago

The South by Southwest Conference and Festivals is a large annual festival held in Austin, Texas. It is described by organizers as "the world’s premier technology, media, and entertainment festival and a must-attend destination for creative types" and also as a "celebration of music, film, and interactive experiences".

54

2 years ago

A tool that helps companies find and hire top talent. It tracks and analyses data from candidates’ social media presence and interviews to determine if they’ll be a good fit for a company.

54

4 years ago

An advertising company that provides a platform for publishers, brands and non-profits to advertise on social media platforms.

53

3 years ago

This startup is building a browser extension that tracks and analyzes the analytics from your social media activity.

53

3 years ago

A platform for the digital advertising industry to connect the people who bid on media space with the ones who need to buy it.

53

3 years ago

A platform for people to “know” about their friends and family, for those looking for events, people to know about, or anything else. The company uses algorithms to scan your social media profile and help you know if your family or friends are safe or in danger.

53

3 years ago

This startup is building a platform that analyzes, categorizes, and ranks companies and people based on their social media content.

53

3 years ago

A scaling solution for companies to handle their social media presence in the new era of real-time content.

53

3 years ago

A “social infrastructure” that helps companies gather, manage and organize their customer data. They are looking to get a $2 million round of funding to “make social media work for you.”

53

3 years ago

A social media management platform for businesses that helps them manage their social media presence while focusing on better results.

52

3 years ago

This startup uses machine learning to help brands target their followers on social media, offering a suite of tools for marketers to create accurate audience segments for their campaigns.

52

3 years ago

A campaign that allows users to create videos of their social media posts and sends it to politicians via Facebook. It’s an election-year project that’s trying to get both parties to put social media on their agendas.

52

3 years ago

This company helps those in need by paying people a small sum when they take the time to take selfies, record videos, and then share them on social media. It’s a way to collect data on poverty in the digital age, and it’s also a way to raise money for charity.

52

3 years ago

A behavioral analytics tool for companies that want to identify and remediate the causes of churn in their customer base in order to retain them.

52

3 years ago

A team of marketers in Silicon Valley developed a new way for companies to engage with customers on social media. WorldFace takes a team of human marketers who can comment on users’ posts and posts themselves to a Slack channel, where a bot then follows along.

52

3 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps businesses manage their social media and blog content. The platform is free for companies with fewer than 200 users, with plans starting at $4 per user after that.

52

3 years ago

A tool which helps you quickly post photos and videos to social media channels.

52

3 years ago

This startup is building a way for people to quickly and easily send encrypted messages with any messaging app. The startup is targeting the social media and dating industries, but is also looking to create a way for journalists to securely communicate with sources.

52

3 years ago

The startup wants to help people build a “personal brand” on social media by giving them tools to create and maintain their personal profiles and to make it easier for people to find them on platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook.

52

2 years ago

Civic is a browser that can help you manage and organize your business’s social media, messaging and email communications, and it’s meant to act as a “digital signature” for the company.

52

2 years ago

A startup that takes on the digital marketing for emerging markets by building media buying tools for advertisers in the US.

52

3 years ago

A media platform for people who don’t want to wait for their favorite shows to come back. It’s a marketplace that curates shows and actors, so it’s perfect for superfans.

51

3 years ago

A company that uses AI to identify and track the video views on social media channels in real time.

51

3 years ago

A startup to help non-profits raise more money by creating more effective social media content.

51

3 years ago

The startup blends articles and social media to create a chat-style experience, allowing users to pull content from multiple outlets and chat about it.

51

3 years ago

A platform that lets you share, sell, and manage your favorite photos, videos, and other media.

51

3 years ago

A social media platform for people with disabilities (and their friends and family) to share their stories and interact with others online. Currently, the startup is in talks with several large universities and is looking for partners to help them set up a pilot program.

51

3 years ago

A company that helps retailers and brands to better understand what people are saying about them on social media, so they can better figure out how to engage with those people.

51

3 years ago

A patent-pending cloud-based system for (1) recruiting and (2) retaining knowledge workers. The startup is working on using social media to connect workers with employers, which it says is more effective at job-hopping than traditional recruiters.

51

3 years ago

This is a startup aiming to build a “Personal Assistant” that helps people with tasks like scheduling, email, and social media management.

51

2 years ago

A team of three in Chicago that wants to build a new model for media distribution. The company says it wants to make it easier for video producers to distribute their work and get paid for it

51

2 years ago

This company is building a tool to help people self-scale, allowing them to set up their own social media accounts and get followers without signing up for an account through a platform.

51

2 years ago

A white label platform for social media influencers to manage their online audience and interact with brands.

51

5 years ago

Idea: A platform for social media managers to collect data on the best performing content for their social media accounts. They have 3 paying social media managers and 20 open beta users.

50

4 years ago

A platform where people can share their photos and videos on social media.

50

3 years ago

This startup is building a decentralized, open-source content distribution network where people can contribute video and photos from events and then share them throughout social media and the web

50

3 years ago

A startup for users to report and share harassment and abuse on social media.

50

3 years ago

A platform that helps people and companies find people to date, find people to hire, and even find people to be friends with. The app tracks social media, online dating, and other apps to bring all the information together.

50

3 years ago

A platform that helps companies make more informed hiring decisions by tracking candidates’ social media activities.

50

3 years ago

A startup that helps apartment owners with real estate management, by acting as an intermediary between customers and service professionals.

50

3 years ago

A platform to let users manage their digital portfolios and social media profiles.

50

3 years ago

This is a platform that allows users to sell their photos, videos and other media. The startup allows people to sell individual photos, videos, or articles, and allows them to get paid by the platform.

50

2 years ago

A social media agency that plans to use the tools of its competitors to build a $1 million business.

50

3 years ago

A startup that aims to bring retail and commerce to the masses by making the user experience designed with sight and sound in mind. The startup is working towards building a retail experience that’s designed to be more immediate and immersive than the stuff we’re used to today.

49

3 years ago

The startup aims to help brands make better use of their digital footprint by helping them determine what content is reaching their audience, and track changes. That’s the job of a social media analytics company, and Current uses data points from social media to help companies alert them when people in their audience are jumping from Facebook to Twitter for example.

49

3 years ago

A way to incentivize and manage social media activity by companies. Currently in private beta.

49

2 years ago

A tool that helps CMOs and agencies measure and track the ROI of their digital efforts on social media.

49

2 years ago

A marketing platform that helps companies track the effectiveness of their social media campaigns. It claims to be the first social media analytics platform to include the ability to track geotargeted results in its service.

49

2 years ago

A blockchain startup to help build and manage trusted reputations for social media influencers.

49

3 years ago

A US-based startup that offers business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) products for social media influencer marketing

48

3 years ago

A startup that allows users to connect with the media library of their favorite publications, and instantly download the latest issue of their favorite magazine on their phone.

48

3 years ago

A tool to help companies and publishers make sense of data they receive from social media platforms, as well as manage their own data. The startup is an open-source toolset that helps users analyze, visualize and transact their data.

48

3 years ago

The startup is building a way to instantly create and edit social media posts, helping marketers to post across multiple platforms with a single click.

48

3 years ago

This startup is a network of creative professionals to teach others how to make their own media.

47

3 years ago

These guys are helping retailers sell tickets for their products in-person and online. They have an active social media presence with over 1,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter.

47

3 years ago

A data analytics platform that helps companies analyze their social media data, allowing them to get better at their marketing.

47

3 years ago

A social media platform for communities of people doing things (like traveling, making cooking videos, or creating art).

47

3 years ago

This startup wants to help make sure your brand is on every device with a GPS in the world. PerfectSeat is building a way to track people's movements by using GPS and then using that information to target consumers. It’s aiming to replace companies like Nielsen with a product that monitors digital media.

47

3 years ago

A platform for media and brands to grow their audience and grow their revenue. The startup is building a platform for brands to get more attention for their content by making it easier for people to share and consume it — and for brands to pay for advertising.

47

3 years ago

A decentralized exchange that allows users to trade in bitcoin without an intermediary.

46

3 years ago

A tech company that focuses on making the data in social media sites more useful, allowing businesses and consumers to see what their customers are saying, and help them build better products.

46

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help businesses get better marketing results by tracking customer social media engagement.

46

3 years ago

A tool to make it easy for people to get paid for their work, whether it’s for work on social media or work on the side, by automatically converting their time into credits that can be redeemed for real world goods and services

46

2 years ago

This company is building technology that analyzes the “viral loop” of social media channels, looking at how a hashtag is used over a period of time and how it changes.

46

2 years ago

A tool for tapping into the social media potential of influencers, pitching the product as a way to build “relationships with people who are already your fans and followers.”

46

2 years ago

Cloud-based email marketing and analytics company. Sends personalized delivery and tracking across email, SMS, and social media.

46

2 years ago

A startup that helps people around the world make the most of their social media profiles, especially in countries where Facebook is blocked.

46

3 years ago

A software company that wants to help companies generate custom-made marketing collateral for a fraction of the cost of traditional media.

45

3 years ago

A company that helps companies with sales and marketing by creating and managing their social media presence. The platform allows customers to create a customized dashboard to track their social media and content marketing efforts, which they can then use to analyze and optimize the performance of their campaigns.

45

3 years ago

The MIT Media Lab’s new venture that “helps patients discover their most effective treatments through digital medicine.”

45

3 years ago

A new data analytics tool that allows companies to see and track a person’s social media “likes”, “following”, and “sharing”, and then makes recommendations as to which media a person should use.

45

3 years ago

A platform that helps brands reach millennials via social media by bringing the brands and the consumers together in the same place.

45

3 years ago

Pitch Tracker is a tool that helps companies manage their online conversations. It’s a robust platform for tracking social media posts and conversations about your company, and for helping you find the best people to do the talking.

45

3 years ago

The New York Tech Meetup is a group of New York City engineering and technology professionals that meet monthly to meet, share ideas, and have fun. The group is supported by Inveneo and supported by the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment.

45

2 years ago

A company that has developed a way for people to connect on social media with a shared interest

45

2 years ago

A way for retailers to send direct messages to shoppers on social media, or search for products by brand or category. It will help them create customized experiences around their products, and serve as a digital storefront for their customers.

45

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform that allows social media influencers to build a brand using video. The company has already launched a free advertising service that helps influencers make money through ad revenue shared with the platform.

45

2 years ago

A startup that connects digital content publishers with brands that need media.

45

3 years ago

Strands is building a platform to help brands measure the effectiveness of their Social Media Marketing.

44

3 years ago

A market research platform that uses artificial intelligence to analyze social media posts and asks users questions to help them make more informed decisions.

44

3 years ago

A “social media engine”, a version of Twitter that has been customized to be more business-oriented and features tools like email marketing analytics. It’s a daily forecast of what’s trending on Twitter, and includes additional features like monitoring for specific keywords, and a way to share content to Facebook and LinkedIn.

44

2 years ago

A platform that helps retailers and wholesalers connect with consumers through social media. The startup’s goal is to create a “reverse-product search engine” that allows consumers to find products based on their likes and dislikes.

44

2 years ago

A tool that allows users to tag and organize their social media and search accounts into virtual “buckets”, allowing them to quickly search for and pull up a list of accounts.

44

2 years ago

A startup that helps brands engage with audiences on social media, sending out emails and other promotional products.

44

2 years ago

Goods are distributed to shoppers in China through the use of WeChat, a popular messaging and social media platform. The company wants to provide that same service in the US.

44

3 years ago

A new social media platform that aims to reach the younger generations with a spoof of an old-school blog that lets users create posts, track them, and read them in real time.

43

3 years ago

A startup that helps you spend more time on your social network. It works by giving you more control over what you’re doing in your social media feeds and the ability to customize your news feeds, so that you get more of the things you want and less of the things you don’t. It’s free to use, with an option for a subscription service that adds extra features.

43

2 years ago

A platform to allow businesses to manage their digital marketing in-house. It’s a content marketing platform that lets businesses manage their own social media, email and analytics.

43

2 years ago

A platform for team collaboration for press and PR teams that works across different media platforms. The startup wants to make it easier for organizations to share their story and connect reporters with news subjects.

43

2 years ago

A tool for managing social media’s presence. It’s meant to manage Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, with a focus on local search.

43

2 years ago

A company that makes tools for more effective social media management.

43

2 years ago

A mobile app that helps parents monitor their kids’ social media use, with a focus on Instagram and Snapchat.

43

2 years ago

A company that developed a tool to embed video on websites, which the founders say has been downloaded more than a million times. The founders also run a content distribution network that helps websites reach more people through social media.

43

2 years ago

A tool for building a “smart virtual assistant” that leveraging AI to make recommendations on anything from the best times to post to a particular social media platform to the ideal products to purchase based on your own personal buying habits.

43

2 years ago

A startup that is building a reputation management platform for social media users that want to protect their identity. The startup built a reputation management app for Twitter, which is currently used by over 1 million users.

43

3 years ago

The startup wants to connect brand owners with influencers to create content for online and social media. The startup is currently in a partnership with Universal Pictures and the upcoming movie “The Girl On The Train”.

42

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a “digital hotline” for consumers, which lets them contact different brands to ask questions about products, and receive live demos, videos, and social media updates. It’s focused on the UK market early on.

42

3 years ago

An SaaS platform for media and content companies to manage their content marketing needs. The startup is beta running now, with a goal of launching in 2019.

42

3 years ago

A neural network that can predict when people will reach a certain age, based on their social media posts.

42

2 years ago

A tool for creating, managing, and marketing social media campaigns. It’s building on the foundation of its first app, Pinch, which launched in early 2016.

42

2 years ago

This startup is building an AI assistant for digital marketing teams, designed to automate routine tasks that can’t be automated like creating landing pages and social media posts.

42

2 years ago

A startup that connects to social media and phone apps to help people find the best-fitting physical therapists.

42

3 years ago

A startup that connects businesses with their social media fans and followers, from a consumer perspective, allowing businesses to interact with them in real-time.

41

2 years ago

This startup aims to help brands and retailers sell their products via social media. It’s a customer-relationship management platform that helps marketers manage customer service inquiries and customer service and technical support. It’s currently profitable and has $3 million in monthly recurring revenue.

41

2 years ago

41

2 years ago

An email app that allows people to scan QR codes on social media and send them to other people. The startup wants to make the experience of getting a notification a little more fun.

41

3 years ago

A startup that wants to be a “Facebook for social media”, with a more focused focus on privacy and security.

40

3 years ago

A platform that helps entrepreneurs build their own video games. The startup wants to help game developers build games with more engagement on social media by creating a platform that allows game developers to create games that have things like virtual currency, virtual goods, and virtual environments.

40

3 years ago

A company that’s building a streaming media management system that can stream media over the web or via mobile.

40

2 years ago

A platform that automatically compiles and posts content from social media profiles across a variety of social media sites.

40

2 years ago

A desktop app for sharing and gifting social media posts. The startup is looking to go after the niche but growing market of sharing on social media.

40

2 years ago

This data startup is building a “creepy” web platform to help people find out what their friends are doing on the web, by analyzing their social media posts and search history.

40

2 years ago

A home-sharing company that allows renters to take a picture of any room in their home, and immediately see who else has listed the same room.

39

2 years ago

A digital token that is built around a person’s social media posts. The startup wants to target companies that build platforms for influencers.

39

3 years ago

A company that helps marketers boost their digital marketing results by having them analyze what people are doing on social media.

38

2 years ago

A payments and e-commerce platform for the social media industry. The startup wants to help people set up a new business from scratch, from entrepreneurial training to a legal contract.

38

2 years ago

A platform that helps brands run social media campaigns. The company is part of the Y Combinator startup incubator in Mountain View, California.

38

2 years ago

A platform that lets users share content on social media, and see a list of who they’re sharing for on Twitter and Facebook.

38

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help companies get their data from the cloud in real-time and make it immediately actionable.

37

3 years ago

The company is building a media platform for working moms, with a focus on the many different ways moms of all backgrounds use media to find and maintain balance with their busy lives.

37

2 years ago

This is a web-based calendar, similar to Google Calendar, that allows users to integrate their social media accounts into their calendar events.

37

2 years ago

A platform that allow users to schedule in-person meetings with people and companies from their mobile phones. Users can book meetings using a variety of different methods, including scheduling over social media platforms.

37

2 years ago

A solution to the data overload problem by helping to aggregate and organize data (including video and images) created by social media.

37

2 years ago

A digital newsroom for the media company, providing editing and publishing tools for journalists to create and share stories.

37

3 years ago

A software platform that enables businesses to create, edit, and share their video content. The startup is collaborating with social media stars and influencers to drive engagement.

36

2 years ago

A software solution for brands to easily manage their digital marketing and social media campaigns, helping them understand campaign results and their ROI.

36

2 years ago

This startup is building an AI for scheduling meetings. The idea is to allow people to get a better idea of when and where they’re needed by using AI. The company wants to build an AI that can visualize data from everyone in a meeting, and immediately show people when they’re needed.

36

2 years ago

A social media monitoring app that shows all social media activity and interactions of a given person.

36

2 years ago

A SaaS that allows businesses to manage customer relationships across multiple channels, including email, phone and social media.

36

2 years ago

A startup that creates social media marketing for small businesses and nonprofits with a focus on customer service. The company currently has a team in San Francisco and is looking to grow by the end of Q3. They’re looking for a CTO who’s currently working in the Bay Area.

36

3 years ago

A startup that builds software for enterprise sales and marketing teams. Zendae helps teams manage their time and track the results of marketing campaigns and social media outreach.

35

2 years ago

A tool to help users build out a custom social media profile for events, conferences, and events.

35

2 years ago

A digital service that helps small businesses manage their social media accounts and share content on digital, social, and mobile.

35

2 years ago

A data management tool that lets companies gain insights from their social media conversations. The startup says they’ve used their platform to predict when Amazon would launch a new product, and that they’ve helped companies raise over $100 million.

35

2 years ago

A cloud service that allows companies to sell their data to others, which could be anything from the data on their servers to their social media profiles.

35

2 years ago

A way to give your music or video files a unique ID so they can be shared on social media

35

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies manage their social media presence and increase retention. They’re currently building a tool that allows a company’s employees to create a Twitter guide for them, making it easier to ensure they’re up to date with trending topics.

35

2 years ago

A tool that helps users schedule and monitor their social media posts. The startup is the first to introduce a web-based platform for scheduling influencer content and campaigns.

34

2 years ago

A “Social Media for Brands”. Vigo aims to give brands the ability to create their own branded social media.

34

2 years ago

A way to curate and share videos and photos from your favorite social media accounts. If the startup succeeds, it will be the social network for sharing videos and photos from Instagram and Twitter.

34

2 years ago

Bundling tips and information in online content and sharing it via social media.

34

2 years ago

"The world’s first global, open-source platform for managing the media in your life through a single source."

34

2 years ago

A startup that’s developing a platform for content creators to share their work alongside their social media accounts.

34

2 years ago

A startup that makes it easy to connect your email and social media accounts, allowing you to subscribe to messages, tweets, and posts from friends and family.

34

2 years ago

A machine learning platform that uses AI to recognize and analyze social media conversations, to find trends, and predict future outcomes based on patterns.

34

2 years ago

A software-as-a-service company that helps media companies digitize their content. The startup wants to grow into a platform that will integrate all content types including books, music, video and television.

34

2 years ago

Intellicast is building a tool that helps sports teams and leagues with integrating social media into their business operations.

34

2 years ago

The company helps businesses with both a physical and digital presence manage their social media.

33

2 years ago

A tool which gives users the ability to create a multi-faceted profile that they can use for multiple purposes, such as sharing their expertise to their social media, and sharing it with their customers.

33

2 years ago

This startup wants to build a market for a type of business insurance that pays out if a company can’t immediately pay a bill, like a missed payroll or a late credit card payment. They layer a layer of risk onto the underlying insurance policy.

33

2 years ago

An API that turns Instagram into a social graph for media companies.

33

2 years ago

A B2B software company that pays people to gather content, both new and old, from their social media feeds and integrate it into various content marketing platforms.

33

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that curates your social media feeds and offers them up as daily briefings

32

2 years ago

A Slack-like platform that allows teams to have discussions about work-related topics in real-time, with the ability to post or delete comments. The startup is the brainchild of two former Facebook engineers and is building out a platform for media companies, advertisers, and other groups to use.

32

2 years ago

A SurveyMonkey-style survey tool for businesses, allowing them to survey clients, customers and prospects without a human intermediary.

32

2 years ago

A tool that helps people share their work with the world on a website or social media platform.

31

2 years ago

A social media analytics platform that tracks the performance of social media campaigns. The software helps brand managers measure the success of their social media efforts, and is integrated with Facebook and Instagram.

31

2 years ago

This startup helps companies and brands market to people on social media. It does this with insights on people’s social media behavior, and is growing rapidly.

31

2 years ago

A startup that builds social media analytics tools for brands.

31

2 years ago

A “social media for business”, “the first social media for small businesses”. As of today, the company has over 150,000 businesses on the platform.

31

2 years ago

A new app/platform for businesses to manage their social media presence. It's heavily focused on Instagram, and is integrating with other social networks as well.

31

2 years ago

An on-demand startup that connects companies with expert help with social media management, like scheduling posts and managing Twitter accounts

31

2 years ago

This startup aims to help advertisers reach more customers by enabling them to reach customers who have shown interest in their products in the past, whether through social media or directly.

31

2 years ago

In 2011, Y Combinator invested in Buffer, a social networking service for social media managers.

31

2 years ago

An AI-enabled recruiting platform that helps companies find the right talent for a job by analyzing a candidate’s social media posts and other data.

31

2 years ago

A startup that has created a tool that allows brands to design and finance a social media campaign.

31

2 years ago

A startup for booking business travel that’s more customer-friendly than AirBnB or Expedia. The startup is currently in talks with media companies.

31

2 years ago

SaaS that helps large retailers manage their social media marketing efforts. The startup provides a way for companies to manage their social media presence across different platforms, so for example a restaurant can create a Facebook page for their restaurant, but also have a Twitter handle for their food truck.

30

2 years ago

To help startups and small businesses with their marketing, this startup offers its customers analytics on their social media and email marketing campaigns.

30

2 years ago

The startup, which was founded in 2016, is developing a “social cryptocurrency” that rewards members for sharing and creating content, much as social media platforms like Facebook. The company is looking to raise funds to build its first product, a social network for cryptocurrency users, in early 2020.

30

2 years ago

Wunder is building a platform that helps users organize their social media connections into teams and groups.

30

2 years ago

Splyse is looking to make it easier for anyone to build and manage a social media marketing campaign.

30

3 years ago

A startup that hooks into a company's HR system to give workers a real-time feed of their performance, including social media mentions, in-person interactions, and data for surveys.

29

2 years ago

The startup has built a way to combine a person’s social media data into a single dashboard, so that they can see what friends are doing and follow them back on social media without having to go to each individual social media platform.

29

2 years ago

Social media monitoring tool to help companies spot and react to warning signs from customers.

29

2 years ago

This startup builds a platform to help companies understand the data they’re collecting through social media. The platform is designed to help companies understand the behaviors of their users, and the data they’re sharing.

29

2 years ago

This startup has created a product that looks at your social media updates and then creates profiles for you and your team using your network.

29

2 years ago

This startup is building a product greater than the sum of its parts, using social media and its own data to help recruiters find the best candidates.

29

2 years ago

The company is developing a new method for evaluating software developers, called “digital profiling”, that uses an algorithm that takes real-time data from a developer’s social media feed to measure their software development skills.

29

2 years ago

If you want to know what’s popular at a restaurant or a bar, you could go to the restaurant and try to guess based on social media buzz.

28

2 years ago

A startup that has built a tool that allows people to create personalized social media profiles that are more valuable than the default Facebook profile.

28

2 years ago

A startup that builds virtual assistants that can find a person’s contact information and look up their details from their phone or social media accounts. Users can also ask their virtual assistant to look up information or make a phone call for them.

27

2 years ago

A platform that helps companies hire and manage their social media marketing. It does this by recommending content and posting schedules. The company has an active blog where it reveals how it “solved” a customer’s problem in social media marketing.

26

2 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses get serious about their social media marketing, digging into the nitty-gritty of analytics for better results.

26

2 years ago

The following are just a few of the companies that have been the subject of media attention and/or venture capitalist funding.

26

2 years ago

A tech company that helps business owners organize and grow their online presence, including social media.

26

2 years ago

An artificial intelligence-powered enterprise social network designed to help people track social media conversations around their products.

26

2 years ago

A tool for social media managers and content creators to manage multiple brands and accounts on multiple social platforms. The B2B startup’s goal is to help brands manage their social media accounts with their own tools, rather than using a commercial social media management solution.

26

2 years ago

Chatbot that helps businesses with social media management. It analyzes your Twitter feed and creates a report on what type of person you are, what type of content performs well for you, and how best to retweet and reply to you. It also integrates with Trello, Slack, and Gmail.

25

2 years ago

“a software platform that helps you create and manage your employer brand through digital and social media tools.”

25

2 years ago

The idea is to provide clients with a full review of their social media accounts, then provide the tools to do what they'd like - run their own social media marketing for their business.

25

2 years ago

The startup is building an API-first social media platform for consumers, a kind of Pinterest for the Facebook age in which you can create and share content with a set of people you trust.

25

2 years ago

This social media startup is building a platform to allow people to form teams around events and expeditions, and plan and fund them with crowdfunding.

25

2 years ago

A start-up that helps businesses get more help from their employees through more immediate and direct contact. The company is building a messaging app that helps support teams coordinate, collaborate, and analyze data.

25

2 years ago

A way to take pictures from your phone and instantly share them on social media.

25

2 years ago

A chat bot that can help organize your content on social media

25

2 years ago

"a platform for banks to make lending decisions online by aggregating credit risk data from a wide range of data sources, including social media, from borrowers and loan officers".

25

2 years ago

An online service that helps businesses make more money from using social media.

25

2 years ago

A resume and social media platform for startups and professionals who want to build a personal brand. The company wants to help with the “end-to-end process of building a personal brand.”

25

2 years ago

A network that helps small businesses reach their customers. It uses a combination of social media, email and text to communicate with customers, and is currently focused on the UK.

24

2 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help brand managers with their social media marketing. It counts companies like Foursquare and Virgin America among its clients.

24

2 years ago

This is a platform that enables a company to automate social media marketing and optimize their ad spend.

24

2 years ago

A group of former BuzzFeed employees who left the company to start a media startup that would let their users “play with words”. The startup currently has more than one million monthly users who play with words by making memes.

24

2 years ago

A startup that helps consumers decide which products to buy based on how much their friends have bought in the past. The company is targeting the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, looking to create a tool that lets companies measure the sales impact of their social media and e-mail campaigns.

24

2 years ago

A social media-inspired photo sharing app that lets users find and share photos with people they know, and connect their photos to their social networks.

24

2 years ago

A company that helps companies create and deliver digital marketing campaigns, social media and email campaigns. The startup’s founders say that they have been able to help companies save $2 million on their marketing budgets.

23

2 years ago

A software-as-a-service product for companies that want to track and analyze social media data.

23

2 years ago

A company that helps people get paid for posting reviews, endorsements, or testimonials on social media.

23

2 years ago

A company providing an API to help producers and marketers identify relevant ads by tracking user interactions and other data from social media. The API returns a list of users who have interacted with an ad, along with a list of their social media profiles.

23

2 years ago

A platform to help brands determine the best voice to use on their social media. The startup says they are able to "connect a single tweet with a person's voice."

23

2 years ago

The company is building an analytics platform that helps users understand how their content is being used across social platforms. The startup is already working with media outlets such as the New York Times and Forbes.

23

5 years ago

Idea: Pixel-level security for media sharing

22

2 years ago

This startup originally was a B2B company that helps companies measure ROI of their marketing. It recently pivoted to consumer-facing, and is now building a tool that let’s users track how brands are performing in their social media presences.

22

2 years ago

A startup that aims to take customer service out of the bureaucracy of back-office operations and into a more immediate, conversational way.

22

5 years ago

A company that is building a tool for businesses to help them manage all their digital properties, from websites to social media accounts.

21

2 years ago

This is a startup that helps brands and publishers track and understand the performance of their audiences on social media.

21

2 years ago

A content marketing and social media management tool for B2B businesses

21

2 years ago

A tool that helps brands understand what their sales reps are talking about in social media. The startup says their product is the same thing that recruiters use to track what’s happening at a job fair, but it can also be used to track what employees are saying on social media.

20

2 years ago

A social media platform for employee engagement. It’s only available to large companies, and it’s free for up to 100 employees.

20

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies to make their own video content for social media, building a platform that allows marketers to make original videos on their own with a specific focus on making social media campaigns more personal.

20

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help people manage their social media accounts better by giving them a way to send out their time-sensitive messages and updates from within a single application.

20

2 years ago

Businesses are measured by their social media reach, and marketers want to engage with consumers on all their social platforms. The startup is building a one-stop solution for brands to manage their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media channels.

20

2 years ago

A company that’s looking to provide equipment for the media industry, and an API for 3rd party developers to build specialized devices for their own purposes.

20

2 years ago

A social media analytics company with an emphasis on civic engagement due to its founder’s background in political science and public relations.

20

2 years ago

A central hub for all of your social media data, aimed at users who have a lot of social media profiles. The startup uses AI to analyze all of your social media data to determine which platforms you use the most, what you post the most and the most important comments and followers. They are currently a Y Combinator company.

20

2 years ago

A new way to read and interact with books, in which a person can purchase a book and immediately start reading it through a private link.

20

2 years ago

A tool for marketing execs to easily create and publish infographics on social media.

20

2 years ago

A startup that’s built a platform that allows small businesses to create their own social media presence, without the expense and hassle of hiring social media managers. The company is also working with big companies like Softbank and Barclays to help them build their own social media presence.

19

2 years ago

A way to connect local businesses to consumers. Users can look up nearby businesses, then check out their social media pages and website and interact with them on the app.

19

2 years ago

A team of 3 UX designers who want to use the concept of “pre-orders” to build an app for people who want to create a “pre-order” for their social media profiles, effectively pre-selling themselves to brands.

19

2 years ago

A startup looking to help HR teams manage their employee’s social media and monitor posts in real time.

19

2 years ago

The startup says they’re building a tool that allows marketers to see which of their social media platforms are driving the most action.

19

2 years ago

A startup that is building an assistant for managing your social media clutter and turning your social media into a tool for connecting with your friends.

19

2 years ago

A startup that provides software that allows hotels and media companies to create web-based content for their customers.

18

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform that allows brands to manage their social media activity in one place, using the data to help manage relationships with influencers.

18

2 years ago

A SaaS platform that makes it easy for businesses to manage their social media presence. With the platform, businesses can create a single “social dashboard” from any of their social media profiles, keeping track of their presence across social channels.

18

2 years ago

A product designed to help small businesses (especially restaurants) easily manage their social media presence. The startup aims to make micro-businesses more social by “automating the process of posting to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram,” built to help spread word of mouth.

18

2 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses with their social media by providing a dashboard with analytics and a community for them to share their content.

18

2 years ago

A social media platform designed for grocery stores that helps them find customers and communicate with them.

18

2 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help companies and governments measure their consumer engagement on social media. The startup is focused on measuring consumer engagement across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

17

2 years ago

A startup that records, shares, and aggregates the history of conversations people have had with brands on social media.

17

2 years ago

A video analytics platform for online video creators that specializes in providing analytics for content that’s being shared on Facebook and other social media platforms. The startup tracks what videos are getting the most views on Facebook and YouTube, and how many people are watching them.

17

2 years ago

A system that automatically creates email and social media marketing campaigns for retailers — without employees having to be trained how to do it.

17

2 years ago

Kite is building a platform for hosting, sharing, and selling images, developed with the help of the MIT Media Lab.

16

2 years ago

A social media platform that simultaneously connects users, allows them to discover new people, and gives them the ability to discover and share unique content.

16

2 years ago

A startup that will help companies track social media interactions to better learn about their customers

16

2 years ago

A startup for college students to learn how to do things like make social media accounts and videos.

16

2 years ago

A company that makes it easy to measure and monetize social media engagement. The startup’s platform uses algorithms to analyze social media usage and then recommend ways to engage with users.

16

2 years ago

A social media platform that provides users with a way to share and discover content on the go without having to leave the social network

15

2 years ago

A startup that wants to build a dedicated group of investors who source deals for companies in the social media space.

15

2 years ago

A tool that helps create a single platform for users to manage their website and online presence. It uses the user’s existing website, social media accounts, and email accounts to surface information about the user’s online persona.

15

2 years ago

A tool for building and publishing Instagram stories that are then shared with other social media platforms. The tool turns a user’s camera feed into a story that they can share with other platforms.

15

2 years ago

A startup for freelance social media content creators. It’s a talent marketplace, where people can sign up and get paid for creating content related to a particular topic.

15

2 years ago

A startup with a strong data science background that allows employees to analyze and create models from massive amounts of data from things like social media, forum posts, blog posts, and more. The founder says that these data sets can be used to predict behaviors and trends for things like product development.

15

5 years ago

Idea: A company that helps brands manage their “influencers”, a new media channel that has emerged alongside more traditional ones like print, TV, and radio. There aren’t many tools for brands to use to manage this new channel, and the team wants to solve that problem.

14

2 years ago

A tool that helps companies manage and grow their social media presence. The startup wants to bridge the gap between marketing and operations by giving companies data to make decisions on when and how to invest in social media.

14

2 years ago

This startup’s tech helps marketers sell brands through social media by allowing users to “like” a brand on Facebook.

14

2 years ago

A tool that helps merchants and brands sense out new product opportunities, from social media to physical stores. It’s currently accepting applications from SaaS startups.

14

2 years ago

A tool that allows you to create custom social media posts that automatically post a reply and share on things like Twitter and Facebook.

14

2 years ago

This startup is building a suite of tools for media startups to manage their growing brands, including branding and packaging, PR, access to influencers, and a customer care service.

13

2 years ago

A streaming media company that aims to become the Netflix of TV.

13

2 years ago

A company that has created a system for identifying viral pictures in real-time, with the goal of preventing copyright infringement and helping brands gain better control over the images on their social media accounts.

12

2 years ago

A platform that makes it easier to connect and optimize your social media marketing.

11

2 years ago

A startup that helps you build your social media presence by pulling your customers’ data and showing you what they like and don’t like.

11

5 years ago

A startup that provides targeted advertising opportunities for businesses through a large database of local businesses and customers’ social media profiles. The startup aims to reduce advertising costs and increase ROI for businesses.

10

2 years ago

A web-based tool that combines the power of social media and data visualization.

10

2 years ago

A platform that connects social media influencers with brands to deliver a holistic marketing experience.

9

5 years ago

Idea: Tastemade is building a platform for brands and media to upload, organize, and distribute videos The startup has two offices right now — one in New York and one in LA, with a few employees in each

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5 years ago

Idea: Our solution is a device for the living room that uses machine learning to capture the attention of kids and young adults, while at the same time, it also monitors and protects them The device allows parents to stream media to the TV, including YouTube and Netflix, while also monitoring TV time and detecting any inappropriate content

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A platform to help recruiters engage with potential candidates on social media The startup wants to give recruiters more time to spend on candidates that matter most

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A social media tool for small businesses

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A program that allows users to build a digital profile based on their social media posts, with the goal of helping them build a portfolio to get a job.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A company that provides tools that are meant to help brands build their social media presence. One of their products is a social media aggregator.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A B2B company that helps lawyers, financial advisors, and other financial service professionals market themselves via their social media pages.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps businesses easily connect to and onboard employees from social media profiles (like Facebook and LinkedIn)

-1

5 years ago

A tool for measuring and tracking performance on social media. The startup wants to help social media managers measure the impact of their efforts, and get a better sense of which tweets are performing well.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to make shopping more convenient for consumers by personally taking pictures and videos of items on a store’s shelves, and allowing shoppers to buy the items immediately.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A social media app that uses a multi-level, multi-person game mechanic to help people try to figure out who in their friend group are the most popular.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A social network for people who, as they put it, don’t do social media. This startup is trying to build a product that’s fun and distraction-free so that people can connect more meaningfully.

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a platform for creating custom photo edits for your social media posts. A nice alternative to Canva and other tools for creating social media images.

-1

5 years ago

A startup for monitoring social media for brand

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Social media that caters to Indian users with an emphasis on comedians and other entertainers.

A company that helps small businesses create social media content and allows brands to promote their business on their social media pages

A way to find out what people are saying online about you, with a tool that automatically scours Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms to pull out potential customers.

A startup that lets employers access their employees’ social media profiles to see what they’re doing at work.

A startup that helps nonprofits build a social media strategy for their causes

A platform for small businesses to manage their social media accounts from one dashboard. The company’s goal is to make the management of social media easier for small businesses.

A tool to help political campaigns build and use digital media.

A small business marketing strategy and planning tool that lets small businesses measure their marketing performance across all channels. It started by focusing on social media and has expanded to include web traffic and content marketing, email marketing, and paid search.

A digital media production company that creates video for brands, agencies, and large video production companies.

An AI that can determine what a customer wants, based on their social media likes and shares.

A startup in New York City that helps people create video content for social media.

Pitchbook, a media company that covers the venture industry, has released a list of the top Y Combinator companies to watch. It includes several companies from the summer batch, including the following:

A startup that helps users with their collections of videos, books, audiobooks, and other digital media by providing recommendations.

A company that makes it easier for small businesses to sell online by providing them a way to promote themselves online and on social media through a suite of marketing tools.

A startup that helps brands develop an online presence in the Indian market by connecting them with the right media partners to place ads, run sponsored posts, and more.

This startup wants to build a tool that allows users to direct all of their social media traffic to a single platform, cutting down on the time it takes to manage multiple accounts.

A platform that helps brands create social media accounts for their business. It lets brands create social media accounts and gives them analytics on how campaigns are performing.

A “social network for influencers”, a platform for those who have large social media followings to connect with brands and offer free content.

A startup that wants to help schools, libraries, and museums share their books and other media with the wider world via the web.

A tool for restaurant owners to help them track customer social media posts, which the startup says can help them improve their service.

A platform that helps brands track social media conversation and measure the effects of social media campaigns. The company is working with brands like Macy’s, Next, and Starbucks.

A marketing platform for small businesses looking to leverage social media and e-mail marketing to build their brand and drive ROI.

A startup working to help the Chinese government monitor citizens’ social media activity. The startup provides the government with a “centralized feed of public activities”.

Combining data science and machine learning with social media sentiment analysis to predict the likelihood that a new product will be a hit.

A tool that makes it easier for people to create and share their own videos. The company wants to make it easier for people to create their own videos, whether they’re for social media or traditional media.

An AI-powered tool for investors to make more informed decisions about what stocks to invest in. The AI scans the news, stock market data, and social media to provide investors with trends and insights.

Collaborative legal system that connects lawyers and clients to serve as a mediation tool.

Social media monitoring startup focused on helping brands and agencies track sentiment on social media. The startup is focused on helping brands track competitors’ message and content sharing across social media.

A startup that wants to help companies get a head start on building a social media presence before they launch.

A Swiss startup that wants to help people find the best doctors online by rating them on social media and text messaging.

A startup that uses social media to help governments solve various problems. It’s a crowdsourced problem-solving platform that allows citizens to solve problems with data, pictures, videos and text.

A tool that lets you take a picture and get directions to the picture, and then share it on social media.

A digital media distribution platform for emerging musicians

A startup that helps people stay motivated to stay off social media (like Facebook) for healthier lives. The startup has worked with over 1,000 customers, with over 1,500 employees using their product.

A tool to help businesses manage their social media accounts and run campaigns across all of their channels. It helps businesses manage their social media accounts and run campaigns across all of their channels.

A startup that uses social engagement to measure how much time different topics and keywords are getting on social media.

A platform for small businesses to create campaigns and get free marketing from influencers and media companies

A startup that ranks articles written by users based on what they read, how they write, and what they post on social media.

A tool that helps marketers better understand the conversation happening on social media, helping them to get more out of their paid efforts.

A platform that converts digital media into physical objects, like posters or t-shirts, to increase sales.

A startup that wants to make social media more fun, enabling people to share their stories in a more immersive way.

A “platform for understanding and managing the impact of content on all social media channels,” with a focus on building tools for brands and their agencies.

A personal assistant focused on helping you keep up with your email, social media, and your calendar.

An online media platform for creators to share, curate, and improve their work.

A marketing tool that lets you track your social media interactions, and see which customers are most engaged, most likely to buy, or engaged at all. The company has raised $2 million in funding.

Pembleton is a startup that offers a “digestible” social media management service to small businesses.

A platform for social media managers to track and measure influencer engagement, traffic and sales.

A startup that helps users create and host video and video podcasts on their website and social media platforms, including YouTube and Facebook.

Social media monitoring, analytics, and management tools for businesses.

An online platform that allows its users to “recover” digital media, including photos, music, and videos. The company aims to build a digital library that it will eventually license to other companies to allow them to use the recovered content.

A program that helps businesses and nonprofits engage their volunteers through social media, newsletters, and email.

The startup’s goal is to use machine learning to help advertisers reach more people on social media

A startup that lets you turn your Instagram profile into a directory for all your social media accounts.

A company that is working with local governments to help them use the power of social media to bring transparency to city hall.

A social media management tool that helps companies optimize their Facebook page.

This startup wants to help small businesses excel on social media and build a reputation online.

A visual analytics tool that measures the impact of the content you’re sharing on social media.

A virtual assistant that helps with customer service, social media, and email. The startup wants to make it easier for small businesses to use AI-powered assistants.

A cloud platform for companies handling high-volume data including financial services, utilities, manufacturing and media.

A tool that allows employees to set up a flexible work schedule. This is currently in an early stage of development and has no immediate plans for the growth of the business.

This startup is looking to use AI to find trends in the social media posts of brands, to help them better understand their consumers.

A SaaS platform for companies to manage their social media accounts across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.

A startup that wants to build a platform that allows companies to create online courses in minutes and distribute them to email lists or social media. They currently have one client with a course on web design that had over 1,000 people sign up for it.

A platform for those who want to manage and sell their social media and content in a more centralized way.

An online-only, subscription-based service that allows people to buy and sell payments immediately from their bank accounts.

A company that is building software to help banks and other lenders connect to new sources of data like social media, livestreams and more, to get a better understanding of their clients and make better decisions.

A way to protect your privacy by using data from social media to “unmask the real, anonymous person behind a fake account”.

A platform for mediation of disputes like contract disputes, breach of fiduciary duties, or employment disputes. The platform is built on blockchain technology.

A startup that provides a service for people to learn how to mediate in divorce cases

Experts are expensive and hard to find, but this startup is trying to make them more accessible to small businesses with a platform that offers social media marketing advice.

A tool for managing and scaling social media campaigns. The startup is based in the UK and has raised $4 million in funding.

A startup that is building marketing software for small businesses that take on the role of a marketer’s assistant. The software helps businesses manage social media, email, and website interactions.

A tool that helps brands and agencies create social media content that’s “faster, better, and more interesting”.

A tool for managing and coordinating your social media and influencer marketing efforts.

ShareWorks is a cloud-based tool for sharing media such as photos, music, and video. The startup also offers a paid-for mobile app as well as a desktop companion for editing and sharing.

A “social platform for people who hate social media”. The startup is looking to build a platform for people who don’t want to be on “social media” or don’t want their social media interactions on-the-record.

A startup that acts as an intermediary to help people travel abroad to work with companies