Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best Los Angeles (LA) based Social companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Social industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Los Angeles (LA) Social Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Dispo
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Dispo is a photo-sharing app designed to simulate the experience of using a disposable camera from the comfort of mobile phones.
Blavity, Inc.
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Blavity, Inc. is home to the largest network of platforms and brands serving the multifaceted lives of Black millennials and gen-z.
Community
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Community is an app that solves communication and engagement problems.
ATTN:
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ATTN: is a content network that helps young people understand and impact the world around them.
TTYL
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TTYL is an audio social network built to help friends and family keep in touch with each other when they are physically apart.
Whip Media
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Whip Media is transforming the global TV and film content licensing ecosystem with a market leading enterprise software platform.
WAVE.tv
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WAVE.tv is a sports media company for digital native fans.
Pearpop
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Pearpop the marketplace for social collaborations between the teeming hordes of musicians, craftspeople, chefs, clowns, diarists.
MeWe
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MeWe is the rapidly growing high integrity alternative to Facebook. No Ads, No Targeting, No Newsfeed Manipulation, NO BS!
Artie
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Artie is a platform for next-gen mobile games that can be shared and played on social, video, and messaging apps.
Popl
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Popl allows users to share their social media and contact info with a tap.
Pinscreen
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Revolutionizing digital communication and online human interactions with user-generated and personalized 3D virtual avatars.
360VUZ
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360VUZ is an immersive virtual video mobile app that enables users to teleport from their smartphone in 360°
Maple Media
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Maple Media is a mobile media, advertising, and technology company that acquires and operates category-leading, consumer apps.
The Mighty
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The Mighty is a digital health community created to empower and connect people facing health challenges and disabilities.
Socionado
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Socionado offers a customized employer branding team that showcases a company’s diversity, mission, culture, and employees.
QYOU Media
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QYOU Media operates in India and the United States producing and distributing content created by social media stars.
Flip Fit
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Flip Fit is a fashion focused social media application
Saatchi Art
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Saatchi Art is an online art gallery and social market platform connecting users with art and artists they love.
Brybe Marketplace
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Comprehensive Digital Services Marketplace for Freelancers, Influencers, and more.
Yappa World Inc.
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Yappa provides audio & video commenting tools that promote personal engagement.
X1 Discovery
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X1 offers a solution that enable knowledge workers to access all forms of corporate data through a single interface.
Dandy
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Dandy is a live dating app that’s built to solve the problem of immense time and effort required by existing online dating experiences.
Monkey
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Monkey is a social networking app where like-minded people meet.
Pace
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Unlocking emotional connection together. Redefining mental health through groups that are effective, but also fun, social, and challenging.
Hornet
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Hornet is the world’s gay social network with 30 million members worldwide
Frequency Networks
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Frequency is a cloud-based internet video service that aggregates and distributes videos from the content producers.
RetargetApp
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RetargetApp develops a solution that automates advertising campaigns.
Legion M
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Legion M is a fan-owned entertainment company producing a slate of movies, TV, and digital content.
CLI Studios
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CLI Studios is an internet company that specializes in the fields of eCommerce and arts education.
Boon
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Boon is a talent crowdsourcing marketplace that offers a game-changing referral engagement network.
Solaborate
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Solaborate, is all in one communication and collaboration platform company
true[x]
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True[x] is a digital ad-tech company offering engagement advertising solutions for brands.
harbor
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harbor provides an app and readiness platform which offers a way to assess and develop preparedness for emergency events such as wildfires.
Open Influence
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Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.
Tellie
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Empowering creators through immersive entertainment
StyleHaul
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A global marketing services and media company that connects brands to social creators through content programs, events and media solutions.
AdGreetz
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AdGreetz’s platform empowers brands to increase revenue by producing and deploying millions of personalized video and display messages.
TapZen
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TapZen creates unforgettable games for iOS and Android tablets.
Ranked® Media & Technologies
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A technology & creative company building tomorrow’s consumer and enterprise products.
Jammcard
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Jammcard is an app that serves as a private network for musicians, producers, directors, and composers that work with artists in the world.
New Regency Productions
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New Regency Productions is an entertainment company which produces and distributes motion pictures, television programs, and sports events.
Giggl
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Giggl provides a secure way for people to connect online through sharing content using virtual browser instances.
UNUM
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UNUM is a developer of a customizable platform aimed at powering the connection between content and creators.
Quarterback
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Quarterback is an e-sports fan engagement platform that helps streamers, professional esports players and teams monetize their downtime.
Speakr
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Influencer Marketing and Talent Management Enterprise Platform
Vixlet
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Vixlet develops and operates a social platform linked to sports leagues, teams, and entertainment companies.
TeamDom
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TeamDom is a media conglomerate that builds brands, stories, celebrities, and businesses around teen entertainment and media.
Encore Music Technologies
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Encore is an interactive live music mobile-based platform aiming to help artists monetize their connections with fans.
Fika
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Fika is an application designed to facilitate online video conversations.
Ader
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Ader helps brands sponsor eSports Influencers on Twitch.
theAudience
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theAudience is a D2C publishing company that publishes multichannel social content.
Toonstar
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The nextgen animation network made for a mobile world.
Thoughtful Media
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Thoughtful is a global media and technology company focused on providing solutions powered by influence.
Capture Technologies
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Capture Technologies is a technology and social media company.
Duuple
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Duuple is a Mobile App/Social Media Platform enabling users to raise money and awareness for various causes by posting/accepting challenges.
ENTITY
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An education technology company that prepares women for the 21st-century workforce through mentorship, IRL immersives, and online courses.
Inspired Labs
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Inspired Labs builds and funds social impact technologies that make the world a better place.
Ampsy
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Social Aggregation as a Service. “Hootsuite for social aggregation & visualization.”
Flirtar
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The Future of Dating Begins with Flirtar | Flirting in Augmented Reality | Meet and Date People in the Real World
Digitour Media
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World’s First Social Media Tour & Music Festival
The Noun Project
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The Noun Project is a platform where the world’s visual language can be shared.
Buddy Jane
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Alternative social app for the cannabis community
Famecast Media
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Famecast Media is an AI-powered content creation, management and audience monetization technology platform.
ZigZag
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Create Together, Trend Together! ZigZag is the new social media app that helps you make viral videos with friends.
Graze
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Graze is a video-based dating app that makes online dating more realistic.
TalentX Entertainment
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TalentX Entertainment operates as a premier social media monetization and talent development company.
Kite & Lightning
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Virtual Reality Creative Development Studio.
Lina Lifeark
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Lina helps parents share life experience and establish meaningful, lasting, and significant relationships with their kids
Stage 32
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Stage 32 is the world’s largest online platform connecting and educating the global entertainment industry.
Spruce Media
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Spruce Media is a strategic preferred marketing developer providing enterprise-class marketing technology for trading desks in Facebook.
Other Mind, Inc.
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The first proactive AI assistant that sits at the epicentre of AI and daily life
Epoxy
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Epoxy builds tools to help YouTubers and networks optimize their business and deepen the relationship with their audience.
Social Bluebook
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Social Bluebook creates tools that empower creators and bring true transparency to the influencer marketplace.
Audience
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Audience allows curators to earn money by building algorithmic robot DJs that play new artists music.
Fahlo
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Fahlo is a social media and fan engagement platform that enables its users to get closer to celebrities, artists, TV shows, and movies.
Little Black Bag
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Little Black Bag is a social shopping site where shoppers buy a mystery bag of fashion products for their use or for trading with friends.
TopLine Game Labs
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TopLine Game Labs is a developer of fantasy sports and social gaming platform.
M8
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Think of us a kickstarter for your dating life except the goal is help you find love.
Krak
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Krak is a skateboarding studio that aims to make the world a huge skatepark. They create products for.by skateboarders. Keep on pushin’
Billzero | play your bills®
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something wicked this way comes
Apliiq
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Apliiq is a new media fashion company that manufactures garments for men and women.
Girlboss
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Girlboss is a digital and physical community for ambitious women.
Overlooked
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Our mission is to build The Social News Network that ends fake news.
Hovercast
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Hovercast is an entertainment company that specializes in the fields of the internet of things, marketing, and social media.
HePays Sugardaddy Site
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HePays is a dating website for sugardaddies and sugarbabes.
Daylight
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Daylight is the first and only digital banking platform in the USA built for LGBT+ people, by LGBT+ people.
Tiger Beat
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Tiger Beat is an American teen fan magazine marketed primarily to adolescent girls.
SameSide
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SameSide is an online platform connecting the millions of events and gatherings that happen every day to a cause.
Collaction
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We’re a social network that solves the big monetization problem, through a business model totally aligned with the interests of creators.
