TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Social calendar app IRL has been busy building a messaging-based social network, or what founder and CEO Abraham Shafi calls a “WeChat of the West.” As users could now network with friends across both web and mobile, IRL began to feel more like a social network, not just an event-discovery engine.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Tedooo , a Tel Aviv-based social network marketed towards the trade world, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Stardom Ventures. The company was founded in 2020 after CEO and co-founder Michelle Apelker collected thousands of business cards when visiting several countries to keep track of brands and form partnerships.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn , is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

There have been countless studies about the damaging effects of social media on mental health, particularly on teens. And yet, most of us just can’t quit social networking. Enter Inpathy , a new kind of social network — a “healthy” one. The end goal is to bring more wellness to the social network world.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Peanut , a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. But over the years, the network expanded to support women through other life stages. “Men are never going to build this for us, so we have to build it for ourselves,” she says.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Peanut , the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. These rounds often range in size from $10,000 to as large as $150,000 or more, and can make a difference when it comes to getting a new company off the ground.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. The company launched in 2018 along with Gushcloud International, an influencer marketing firm. They are also available on Summer.store, the company’s proprietary social commerce network.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

When making decisions about network access, businesses need to be aware of and assess the security implications associated with network technology to help keep their digital assets protected. Cyber hygiene best practices include device security , cyber security education , and secure networking strategies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The new social investment platform enables users to subscribe to a creator’s financial feed and set up an investment portfolio that mimics that particular person’s investment strategy. And, as Follow’s creator network grows, users can subscribe to additional creators to better diversify their portfolios. equities to U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Chefclub has been building a major media brand on social media platforms. I already covered the company at length, so I encourage you to read my previous profile of the company: How food media brand Chefclub reached 1 billion organic views per month. The company leverages that audience to create new products.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Walkie-talkie, a social audio platform developed by Picslo Corp, has raised a $3.25 Audio was coming back into fashion, especially with Gen Z and with the movement around anti-social networking. The company also plans to scale product, engineering, and operations functions. million seed round led by Heroic Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Raven Gao didn’t set up virtual social platform MEW to ride the metaverse wave. He began working on MEW in mid-2019 with a Tencent veteran because he wanted to build a virtual safe haven for socially awkward introverts like himself. The company has not previously announced its funding amount.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Social gaming platform Rec Room has scored some new funding as it aims to bring its once VR-centric world to every major gaming platform out there. The platform has been around for years serving as a social hub and gaming platform for virtual reality users. The startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. Today, the Los Angeles-based company closed on a $28 million Series A led Streamlined Ventures. Our app is like if TikTok and Amazon had a baby.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

The Egyptian social e-commerce market will be worth over $14.8 The opportunity in the market can be attributed to the growth in online social sellers in the country, over 1.25 million them, helping little-known brands sell and distribute their goods via different networks. billion by 2024. Most of them happen to be women.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

TikTok appears to be working on an integration with Lemon8 , another social app owned by TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, according to new findings from product intelligence firm Watchful.ai. Lemon8, as you may recall, rapidly rose up the App Store charts earlier this year around the same time that U.S.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Networking isn’t just for holiday parties. The two cardinal rules of networking, according to CIOs and career coaches, are to schedule time to do it for at least an hour every month, and to approach it as something you do to help others in addition to yourself. I suffered from a crippling lack of self-worth.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Now the company is back with an even bigger Series B round of $20 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The company has turned reading into a multiplayer experience as you can build a bookshelf, share notes with your followers and start conversations in the margins. Sure, there are social platforms that let you talk about books, such as Goodreads. The company has also put together a comprehensive book store.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Zenly has always felt like the small social app that could become the next big thing. But it turns it Zenly is quietly becoming a social giant without anyone paying much attention — at least until now. According to the company’s internal data, the app has now reached 35 million monthly active users. This isn’t a utility.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. Honeycomb is also different from mainstream social apps because it will be a subscription-based service, not one that’s monetized through advertising. these days.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Evermos is an Indonesian social commerce startup with two goals: to let people earn extra income by opening online stores without spending capital and to help small brands grow into household names. The company says it currently has 100,000 active resellers in more than 500 Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, mostly in Java.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Contra, a professional network for freelance workers, is partnering with TikTok to allow users to showcase their resumes and portfolios via TikTok Jump, the social media service’s third-party integration tool. With this new integration, creators can now add a “View My Portfolio” link to their TikTok content.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

If you’re somewhat famous on various social networks, chances are you are exposed to hate speech in your replies or in your comments. It has been available in French for a few years and the company has attracted 50,000 users so far. “We The company has started with a mobile app that anyone can use.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. Zaatarah said partnership and integration with 45 telecom operators is the backbone behind the company’s global expansion. Asia, and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users. ” Image Credits: Yubo.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This is called social proof, which is a physiological effect that influences your decisions every day, whether you know it or not. We’ve found that effectively using social proof can lead to up to 400% improvement in conversion. How businesses use social proof. Social proof for B2B. Social proof for SaaS.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

But how many of those people do you actually know well, and, more importantly, do you ever connect with them and meet others from their networks? You don’t hang out and spend meaningful time there,” said Alex Taub, co-founder and CEO of Upstream , a new professional networking platform that just closed a $2.75 The origin story.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Image Credits: Tagg.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is announcing a seed round to give its growth a boost. General Catalyst — one of the group of VCs out of the U.S. off a sale.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Social commerce company Mio is taking advantage of that gap by building a reseller network and logistics infrastructure that can offer next-day delivery to tier 2 and 3 cities. Indian social commerce Meesho valued at $2.1 Super, an Indonesian hyperlocal social commerce startup, raises $28M led by SoftBank Ventures Asia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Chief , a professional network designed for women in leadership, has cut 14% of staff, or 43 jobs today, saying in an email seen by TechCrunch that the move is a response to the economy and that the outfit is restructuring to further focus on member experience. Around 262 employees remain at the company. The company hit a $1.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The way it works is you sign up and it scans any email accounts you have, looking for connections at different companies. When you look at a particular company, you can see who you know who knows someone there, with the strength of your connection measured by three colored dots. He called Benioff the “number one alpha networker.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Last fall, social analytics startup SocialRank sold its product and business to Trufan , allowing the team to focus on something new: a professional social network. “This is the place for your professional social life,” Taub said. Today, they’re officially unveiling Upstream to the public.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Today marks the 30th Demo Day for Alchemist , the enterprise-focused accelerator that helped grow companies like LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Computing and Privacera early on. As an enterprise accelerator, the companies Alchemist backs generally focus on selling things to other companies as opposed to selling straight to consumers.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 11, 2022

At Palo Alto Networks, our values are core to everything we do as we remain committed to securing today and protecting our planet for a better tomorrow. We are thrilled to see our efforts recognized as we’ve been named on the 2022 Ranking of America’s Most JUST Companies. Social impact has continued to be a core focus.

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