Top California Social Media Startups (260)

VSCO is on a mission to champion photographers so they can make it. We place human creativity at the heart of new technology. Our editing and business tools honor and elevate the timelessness of the creative process while enabling our members to find community and success in exciting and innovative ways. VSCO maintains a rich and authentic creative environment that serves...

Optimal is a performance marketing agency on a mission, to bring together the best data, technology, and people to achieve our clients’ marketing goals. Brand, campaign, or cause: we maximize performance at every moment. We are not only digital media strategists – we’re award-winning industry leaders, with deep knowledge spanning all things digital: from advertising and paid media to marketing and...

Golden Pet Brands is leading America’s pet health revolution by making longevity-focused nutrition simple for pet parents, and rewarding for pets, through product excellence, education, and storytelling.

A category leader in results-driven growth marketing, Darkroom’s success is attributed to our unique partnership model, purposefully built to launch brands to market and accelerate growth. Our model is predicated on four major disciplines — Brand & Identity, Digital Products, Creative Production and Growth Marketing – threaded by one cohesive, interdisciplinary team.

All Systems, Grow. Get the most out of your full customer lifecycle with SmartBug Media, a full service digital agency creating resilient growth in every phase to deliver predictable growth for your organization. We Know Where You Grow from Here. We empower you to leverage the tools you're already using while introducing you to cutting-edge revenue and predictable revenue-generating strategies. Backed by deep...

Linktree is the market-leading linking platform that was the first of its kind, creating an entirely new category in tech. Today, a community of 70+ million use Linktree, including icons like Adidas, TikTok, the UN Environmental Program, The NFL, Manchester United, World Central Kitchen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, and Selena Gomez. With 48,000 new accounts created every day, Linktree is the...

@MediaLab we build, acquire & grows internet brands. Driven by our mission to build community among our social media and mobile platforms, we invest in shared services and programmatic monetization through our social media exchange to connect purposeful brands with our vast audience of 95M+ Monthly Users (& growing). Assembly Exchange is our owned and operated social media exchange providing programmatic...

Video editing is the final frontier of software tools moving to the cloud. We're making the next generation of modern creators tools to enable everyone to share their story online. Join us at Kapwing on our mission to make content creation fast, accessible, and collaborative. Everyone is a creator. The problem, however, is that today's tools get in the way of...

We are Inspira, an experiential marketing agency that specializes in forging connections between brands and consumers. By humanizing data and intimately understanding the consumer, we’re able to create award-winning brand experiences that propel our partners forward – from up-and-coming brands like Yasso to global entities like Diageo. But, for us, it’s not about just the work. In fact, the great...

Pearpop is The Creator Collaboration Company. Seamlessly blending award-winning marketing technology with a dedicated full-service team, Pearpop empowers brands to collaborate with the perfect creators, driving impactful, measurable results with unparalleled efficiency.

EarthCam encourages exploration, fosters discovery and connects people through innovative live camera technology.

At LocalStack, we provide the #1 platform for local cloud development & testing, offering the most advanced cloud emulation for AWS services. Our aim is to assist individual cloud developers and enterprises in becoming solution nimble, optimizing costs, reducing contention, and delivering resilient and secure value to their customers. LocalStack is ideal for designing and testing highly resilient and secure solutions...

A marketing agency for good

Gigasavvy is a creative marketing agency driven to develop and promote brands with the gravity to connect with people and influence change. Based in Orange County, we combine art and technology to help brands tell their stories, connect with their customers, and grow their businesses. We have built our expertise around helping ambitious brands establish unique and compelling voices that...

Used by millions of people every day, Flipboard’s mission is be the world’s most valuable platform for the discovery and sharing of stories that help us understand and engage in our world.

 On Flipboard, quality articles, videos, podcasts and products are curated everyday for millions of people around the world. It's a platform that lets people spend time on their...

Clubhouse is a new type of social product based on voice. It allows people everywhere to talk, tell stories, develop ideas, deepen friendships, and meet interesting new people around the world. Our early users love the product and we have been featured in publications like The New York Times, Forbes, The Telegraph, TechCrunch, The Information, CNBC, and WIRED — as well...

TrustLab provides cutting-edge software and metrics to the world's largest social media platforms, online marketplaces and apps to enable them to protect their users against misinformation, hate speech, identity fraud, and other harmful content. Our customers are large enterprises with complex Trust & Safety needs and small companies building out their internal policies and teams. With a founding team with...

Tavrn is an invite-only app that helps creators, singers, actors and professionals in the creative industry to connect. We facilitate eight-person member events weekly - all members have to do is indicate interest to attend and we take care of all the rest!

Shibumi is a cloud-based application that makes it easier to manage initiatives and deliver results. Shibumi reduces the need for time-consuming manual effort compiling status, impact and results and helps get teams back to their most important job – executing. Shibumi helps teams stop spending a majority of their week in meetings and accelerate their actions with a focus on...

Plots is getting Gen Z off their phones and into real life. We're the event discovery platform that turns digital connections into actual friendships, helping our generation find and meet people at high-quality local events they'll love. We're backed by A16Z SPEEDRUN, co-founded by two Gen Z builders and Tinder's founding CTO, and we've already helped event hosts make $3M+ in...