Top California Social Media Startups (258)

At VSCO, we place human creativity at the heart of new technology. Our editing, community, and business tools honor and elevate the timelessness of the creative process while enabling our members to find success in exciting and innovative ways. VSCO maintains a rich and authentic creative environment that serves photographers at all levels – preserving a home for creative opportunity, inspiration,...

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...

Crowsdstarter has built several platforms in the last year and a half. Set to launch is Crowds, a social media center around Users, viewers, and followers having the power to call the shots. Check out Crowds on the App Store.

Entice Us is the next evolutionary step in the progress of how people and businesses connect.

HawkSEM is a results-driven digital marketing agency with roots in paid search that date back more than a decade. Our founders are based in Los Angeles and lead a fully-remote team of 85+ marketing experts in over 40 states across the country. As our team grows, so do our specialties. Our integrated approach to digital marketing includes a variety of...

Redideo Studio is a San Diego-based creative agency specializing in digital marketing, video production, and website design. With over 25 years of experience, we help businesses tell their stories, connect with audiences, and achieve their goals through innovative and tailored strategies. Our services include creating impactful video content, such as advertising, event coverage, and drone footage, as well as crafting...

Dottob is a full-service, LA-based creative + marketing house, specializing in thumbstopping content that halts a disinterested scroller in their tracks and gets them to pay attention to your brand. Unlike other agencies who adopt a hands-off, spray-and-pray approach, we take time to understand the people who make up your demographic by…actually talking to your customers. We get to know...

Fidelitas is a full-service marketing, advertising, and public relations agency that helps clients build brand loyalty through intentional story telling. Fidelitas serves a variety of clients in the retail, direct to consumer, eCommerce, luxury, and sporting goods industries. Fidelitas was founded by Tyler Sickmeyer in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego. Fidelitas differentiates itself by serving clients as an unbiased...

Real estate, home goods, financial products and home maintenance are categories that depend on an increasingly younger, savvy homeowner saying "Let's Go!" Homeowners face a lot of choices because the home is both their castle and often their piggybank. If you're looking for an agency with a solid blueprint for reaching consumers in the home space, let's talk.

With more than 13.5 million monthly active users in virtually every country in the world, Grindr has grown to become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community since its launch in 2009. The company continues to expand its ecosystem to enable gay, bi, trans, and queer people to connect, express themselves, and discover the world around them. Since 2015 Grindr...

Linktree is the market-leading linking platform that was the first of its kind, creating an entirely new category in tech. With over 50 million users including brands and celebrities like Selena Gomez, Steph Curry, HBO and The White House, as well as creators, job seekers, local small businesses and everything in between, our community of users rely on Linktree to cultivate...

iOOi is a social media startup developing a platform that concentrates on learning.

Elated is a gamified dating app that delivers more meaningful social connections. Users discover each other's personalities through fun and revealing creative play that makes better matches and generates a stream of shareable content for engaged singles. Our technology is powered by sticky user experience and advanced machine learning.

We Create Cool stuff using A.I. — whether it’s an Instagram post, a YouTube video, or a print ad, our goal is to engage. And not let go.

CLEVER is the influencer marketing agency. We believe the future of advertising isn't advertising: it’s real people telling brand stories. Clever represents thousands of real people who do this beautifully. We match brands with the right influencers to reach millions of the right consumers. Everywhere. This is Real. At Scale. Founded in 2009, we’ve delivered more influencer programs for the...

We are Birthday Capsule, and we value fun above everything, in our work and products. We build experiences around how people actually behave instead of how we wish they would. We believe that birthdays are universally celebrated and have a big idea that we’ve built to help make birthday celebrations as seamless and special as possible. Our first live product is...

Here at Brainjolt, our sole mission is to Battle Boredom. Across our 25+ brands, we curate and create viral video content (including Snapchat’s Bad Parenting Moments) as well as click-worthy articles on our HUGE web properties (including 22Words, 22BestThings), with a collective audience size greater than the entire population of Thailand (69.8 million+) across all of Brainjolt’s platforms ​. Furthermore,...

Founded in 2011, StyleHaul played a crucial role in revolutionizing the global media industry by utilizing social platforms to foster relationships between brands, creators and consumers via multi-platform marketing programs. In 2019, StyleHaul ceased operations.

TIL Events specializes in creative event production and entertainment marketing. TIL owns and produces LA's largest outdoor movie series Street Food Cinema presenting 60+ events annually, drawing 100,000+ attendees throughout the season. TIL also produces The Buzz Girls and independent events. Clients include Sony, Disney, CBS LA and Southwest.

BranchOut is the largest professional network on earth with more than 800 million profiles. By leveraging the social graph, BranchOut reveals users inside connections for jobs, recruiting and sales. BranchOut has raised $49 million in funding from Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Norwest Venture Partners and a dozen top angel investors in Silicon Valley.