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How Zenly made social maps cool again — and what’s next

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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. Originally designed in Paris, the app was acquired by Snap back in 2017. This isn’t a social network.

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Social care SaaS maker Birdie tops up with $30M

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The new funding brings its total raised since being founded back in 2017 to $52 million. We’ve built Birdie around this concept, and we’re now capable of collecting millions of data points every day that were previously captured on paper, making us the social care platform with the most structured data,” he adds.

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Egyptian social commerce startup Brimore raises $25M led by IFC and Endure Capital

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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 The company was founded by Mohamed Abdulaziz and Ahmed Sheikha in 2017. billion by 2024. Most of them happen to be women.”.

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Shares is a new stock trading app with a focus on social features

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Meet Shares , a new European startup that wants to add a social twist to financial investment — in this case, the company means “social” as in “social network” The startup has been developing its product under the radar for a few months already. It is also moving at a fast pace.

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Sharify makes it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

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The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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Beam Impact raises $13.3M to turn everyday purchases into a way to support social causes

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Beam Impact , a company that enables consumers to turn their spending into a way to support social causes, has raised $13.3 The company’s B2B2C model connects consumers with brands that are supporting social causes and allows them to donate a portion of their purchases to a nonprofit of their choice, at no cost to them.

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TipTip uses a hyperlocal strategy to help Southeast Asian creators monetize

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But many of them don’t have the social media clout to attract advertisers. TipTip founded in October 2021 by Albert Lucius, whose previous startup Kudo was acquired by Grab in 2017. The latest round was led by East Ventures, with participation from returning investors Vertex, SMDV and B.I.G.

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