Social Starts is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in work platforms, internet of things software, content and commerce sectors.
Social Starts has a data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds. They focus on companies leveraging social and mobile technologies with an emphasis on the science and technology of health and happiness.
Investment
Social Starts' investments include Barn2Door, Medal, Thryve, LucidAct Health, Embr Labs, Freeplay, Limbic, BuildX, Burrow, Outer, Wynd Technologies and Vitae Industries.
They have exited their investments in Ambassador, Mashable, Boundless Mind, Social Rank, Grovo, ZingBox, Adelphic, SimpleReach, Zemanta and Lua.
Timeline
Funded Companies
VendorHawk
Procurement
Software
Seattle
MagicCube
StopLight
Application programming interface (API)
Portal (Mass Lab Inc.)
Video
Digital media
Osano
HookitPeople
Andrew Nealson
Chief Analyst
Anna King
CFO
Charles C. Smith
Venture Partner
Emi Gonzalez
Principal
Holly Jacobus
Investment Partner
Jon Broscious
Principal
Jun Deng
Investment Partner
Leena Dai
Data Scientist
Mike Edelhart
Managing Partner
Nicole Staudinger
Marketing Director
William Lohse
Founding Partner
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Companies
Company
Venture capital
San Francisco
New York City
Los Angeles
Tokyo
Portland, Oregon
Austin, Texas
Boston
Singapore
Barn2Door, Inc. 
Medal (company)
Thryve
LucidAct Health
EMBR Labs
Freeplay
Limbic
