TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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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

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. Once you get onto the network, you can find your own friends on it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The founding team doesn’t have an awful lot to say about what exactly they’re building, except that it’s a “social layer” for consumers based around interacting with virtual spaces that capture the “spirit” of real-life geographies and cities.

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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

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

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. Some may compare the platform to Etsy, but Michelle says Tedooo is a social network, not an e-commerce platform.

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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

APRIL 13, 2022

Conceptually, social commerce isn’t new — it has existed in some form ever since people have made recommendations to each other. Today social networks are more powerful than ever, and startups and corporations are innovating new commerce models that leverage the greater reach available to us.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Elon Musk buying a huge stake in Twitter , the popular American social network. Here’s what we got into: A strong start to the week from global stocks, and a general updraft to crypto prices in recent days. The move comes after the Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted that Twitter was not allowing enough free discourse.

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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. We have our own supply chain and we have the power to distribute brands across Asia via our social commerce and live distribution platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2024

Despite the potential career benefits of building high-status networks, research has long shown that women face greater obstacles in establishing these networks compared to men.

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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

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. “The assumption that founders should have networks able to invest in their businesses creates an unfair starting line for most groups.

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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. clients.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When we get on a social network, the first thing that surfaces is normally suggestions for following. One of KNN3’s better-known customers is Mask Network, which enables users to send cryptocurrencies on Web 2.0 The Graph offers an API for developers to query blockchain data. In the U.S.,

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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

JANUARY 29, 2021

Chefclub has been building a major media brand on social media platforms. SEB Alliance, the venture arm of kitchen appliance maker Groupe SEB, Korelya Capital and Algaé Ventures are also participating. It has attracted a huge audience that doesn’t look bad next to well-funded media brands Tastemade and Tasty.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

” Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media. Given the intent with TIC is to hosts all sorts of decentralized apps it’s possible — indeed, likely — that a bunch of decentralized social media plays will emerge. Polychain Capital outted its Beacon Fund last September.

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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. The app, a lifestyle social network, had originally launched in arch 2020 but was artificially inflated on TikTok this spring.

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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. MEW’s interface can be perplexing for many people at first glance.

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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’s seed round comes as social audio apps and features have gained popularity amid the pandemic.

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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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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The dangers and opportunities of social networking in schools, education and business. The post The Dangers of Social Networking – Duplicity appeared first on RapidBI. Exploring how to get the most & stay safe in this valuable learning world.

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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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Toptal

JANUARY 7, 2022

Thanks to rapid advances in technology, large amounts of data generated on social networks can be analyzed with relative ease, especially for those who use the R programming language and Gephi.

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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

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

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. Glose Is A New Ebook Reader That Turns Reading Into A Social Experience.

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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

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. This isn’t a social network. Zenly still wants to make the definitive social maps app. This isn’t a utility.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Social commerce sellers can be as small as one person selling products to their followers on social media platforms like Instagram or Facebook. This might not seem like enough to move significant amounts of product, but in many Southeast Asian markets, social commerce sellers are making up an increasingly large portion of e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Building an investor network from scratch sounds daunting. This is true particularly if, like many founders, you don’t happen to be part of a social or economic circle where striking up early conversations with potential investors is a no-brainer. How do you start a network from zero?

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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. ” .

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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

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. Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion.

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