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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Group Nine Media — which owns Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker and PopSugar — is the latest company to form a SPAC, according to a filing with the SEC. Group Nine is itself a roll-up of previously independent digital media companies, led by CEO Ben Lerer (pictured above) and growing last year with the acquisition of PopSugar.

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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 startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group. The platform has been around for years serving as a social hub and gaming platform for virtual reality users.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook. Does everyone want to be a landlord, or what?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Kapu , a social commerce startup, coming out of stealth today having raised $8 million seed funding, is hoping to help lessen the burden of buying food for Kenyan consumers, many of whom are grappling with the sky-rocketing food prices. Kapu and Tushop are both enabling group buying of food supplies through agents and WhatsApp.

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MARCH 3, 2022

The company has been working on a mobile app that lets you easily buy and sell shares, but with a social twist. In particular, Shares wants to make stock trading more accessible from a financial point of view and less daunting thanks to social features. There is also a sort of investment feed that looks like Venmo’s social feed.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The up-and-coming social app BeReal continues to vie for users’ attention with more and more bells and whistles. Next week, BeReal is rolling out two major new features: Behind the Scenes and RealGroups.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Among players in the online group emotional support space there is Pace (which raised $14.9 Circles, a platform for online group emotional support, joined the fray in 2020, and has today raised $16.5 million), Grouport (raised $1.5 million) and Quilt. million in a Series A round led by Zeev Ventures.

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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

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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

What’s interesting, however, is you probably haven’t seen many of these ads popping up on social media at all, a testament to the long-running contention between crypto marketers and platforms like Twitter or Facebook. Kris Ruby, CEO of Ruby Media Group. These include crypto tax services, events, blockchain news and wallets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Leap , a platform for people over 55 to learn via social interaction, has raised $3.1 Leap members gather online to collectively “learn, connect and grow together,” says the company, via small online groups built around shared interests. Users connect over audio and video, in groups of between five and 10.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sure, there are social platforms that let you talk about books, such as Goodreads. But Glose’s differentiating point is that the social features are intrinsically linked with the reading features — those aren’t two separate platforms. Teachers can hand out assignments and you can read a book as a group.

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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. Other participants included iSeed SEA, DoorDash executive Gokul Rajaram and Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal, co-founders of Indian social commerce unicorn Meesho.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Hosts can also set up an email marketing campaign, in addition to promoting their bookable experience across their social media channels. TrovaTrip also plans to continue to make travel safer and maintain a high bar for quality group travel. The company charges a 10% service fee and a $2.9% transaction fee.

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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. It’s not only a social platform, it is the best post-purchase experience — shipping, rewards, returns — everything people love and in a two-click process,” he added.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Users on Beams are encouraged to join interest-based groups and (asynchronously) listen or clip into topic-based threads — on, well, whatever you want to talk about, be it art or politics, fashion, food or music etc etc… Topics on Beams are a real pick’n’mix — and the overall experience can feel pretty random. (Or,

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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. VUZ raises $20 million to scale its immersive social app by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch. Asia, and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

People who purchase as a group, for anything from insurance to a group of neighbors fixing their fence, can often command a better purchase deal. The social commerce company, formerly known as Zapt, was founded in 2020 by Guilherme Nazareth, Guilherme Alvarenga and João Jönk. There was a full WhatsApp group and a 100% waitlist.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Social music streaming startup Stationhead announced today that it’s launching a new live commerce tool that allows select artists and hosts to sell digital tracks to fans during livestreaming parties on their stations. The startup raised $12 million in Series A funding last July.

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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. Super, an Indonesian hyperlocal social commerce startup, raises $28M led by SoftBank Ventures Asia. Image Credits: Evermos.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Mio , the Vietnamese social commerce platform, has raised an $8 million Series A, less than a year after announcing its seed round. Founded in 2020, Mio is a group buying platform that focuses on selling fresh produce and groceries in Tier 2 and 3 cities in Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

New York-based MyPlace , a social network designed to help friends share their private homes, has raised $5.8 Since then, the platform has grown into a social network used by thousands of people in 86 countries. The platform also has private groups that users can invite each other to. Image Credits: MyPlace.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Launched in February 2019, Kroo, the London-based consumer-facing fintech, raised some seed funding last year for its prepaid card service which claims to offer more “social features” in its drive toward offering full-blown banking services. B-Social, the UK fintech building a ‘social bank,’ raises additional £7.8M

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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. In addition, one of Tedooo’s main features is its “Groups” function that allows users to chat with others who share their interests.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Tushop , a social-commerce platform in Kenya that enables the group-buying of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs), is set for expansion across Nairobi after raising $3 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by 4DX Ventures. Tupshop is powering group-buying in Kenya. Image credits : Tushop. Experience in the FMCG industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

SoleSavy is a group of communities that is currently mostly hosted on Slack. . You only have to look at how hard it was to get a PS5 or Xbox One X or a GPU for the holiday season, and how many services, Twitter accounts and monitor groups rose up to try to help people do that to see what the future of shopping looks like. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

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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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Peanut , a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. Women can join groups, ask questions, and get advice, or even join live audio conversations hosted by experts, through Peanut’s newer live audio rooms feature, Peanut Pods.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Then we chatted how layoffs could lead to a founder boom, and the results of one venture group’s effort to fund recently separated tech denizens. Scooters and social media companies are surprising IPO candidates by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Hello, it’s more funding calling : In PhonePe’s quest to raise $1 billion, an investor group that included Tiger Global and Ribbit Capital invested another $100 million into “India’s most valuable fintech startup,” which is valued at $12 billion, Manish writes. Take a deposit, leave a deposit : Andreessen Horowitz led a $4.5 Kirsten has more.

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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. After you download the app and connect the app with your favorite social networks, you choose the level of moderation. The company has started with a mobile app that anyone can use.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

SEB Alliance, the venture arm of kitchen appliance maker Groupe SEB, Korelya Capital and Algaé Ventures are also participating. Chefclub has been building a major media brand on social media platforms. That’s why having Groupe SEB as an investor makes sense.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

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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