Loku

Personalized local search
Loku.com was acquired by Groupon in July of 2013. Excited for the next phase of our journey! --- As featured in WSJ, Techcrunch, CNET, FastCompany, VB, GigaOm and more... Loku makes it fun to get out and explore your city. We do this by providing personalized ...

Waldo

Contextual Messenger
Waldo is a window into your best friends’ lives. Waldo runs in the background on your phone and understands what you’re up to throughout the entire day.  Whether you’re driving, at work or out with friends, Waldo automatically updates your status and makes it ...

Topguest

Geosocial SaaS for loyalty programs, acquired by Switchfly (formerly ezRez) in Dec 2011
Topguest is redefining loyalty program engagement for a mobile, social world. There are $48 billion of loyalty program points in US circulation, and Topguest is pioneering the use of these points to drive beneficial actions on social applications. Loyalty programs ...

Enthuse

Sports reward platform
Enthuse is a sports-focused loyalty platform. Our app makes it easy for teams to instantly launch a loyalty program to their fans and integrate local & national sponsors for targeted activation. Our SDK empowers teams to reward-enable their existing content ...

Hitch

A fun and affordable way to get around SF by sharing your ride
Hitch is the first on-demand multi-pickup solution--an iOS app offering an extremely affordable (50% of an UberX) and convenient transportation solution. Rather than booking an entire car, you only reserve the amount of seats you need, allowing us to pick up other ...

BeCouply

Epic Social Lives for Couples
When you're single, you tend to have a pretty awesome social life. Then the day comes when you meet that special someone and, as you settle into the comfort of coupledom, you also settle onto the sofa for TV and takeout. BeCouply's here to change that, helping ...

Rinse

Dry Cleaning. Laundry. Peace of Mind.
Rinse (www.rinse.com) has created a seamless Dry Cleaning & Laundry experience to take care of its customers’ most time consuming and repetitive household chore – cleaning their clothes.  Through a combination of incredible customer service, mobile technology, ...

Volta Industries

Free Sponsored Electric Vehicle Charging
Volta builds and operates a nationwide network of free-to-use electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The charging stations are front and center at prime retail venues, featuring six-foot-high, backlit advertising surfaces. EV drivers enjoy free charging, supported ...

Hipster

Location-based question and answer service.
Hipster is creating a real-time, visual public record of the world’s locations. Using their iPhones and Android devices, people share where they are and what they are doing by sending their friends a photographic postcard. The postcards become permanently attached ...

SimpleGeo

Treatful

acquired by OpenTable
Treatful is about sending personalized and thoughtful restaurant experiences to friends & family. In addition, Treatful.com: • Enables users to personalize, purchase, and instantly send restaurant e-gifts to recipients • Identifies and suggests gift giving events ...

ONE

The Real World Social Network
ONE is the fastest growing real world social network on college campuses. ONE notifies you when you're right next to people you should meet. Whether you are at a party, concert, classroom, or library, ONE uses all the sensors on a phone to localize a person ...

Foodspotting (Part of OpenTable)

Find & share great dishes, not just restaurants
Foodspotting is the leading app for finding and rating dishes, not just restaurants. With this visual guide to good food and where to find it, you can find whatever you’re craving, see what’s good at any restaurant and learn what foodspotters, friends and experts ...

AmigoCloud

Next-Generation Enterprise Mapping
AmigoCloud is a Cloud and Mobile GIS Platform; we make geospatial data collection, administration and sharing simple.  Our SaaS solution eliminates painful workflows and saves thousands of dollars by replacing expensive hardware and software with ubiquitous smartphones ...

Highlight

Who's nearby?
Highlight is a fun, simple way to learn more about the people around you. If someone standing near you also has Highlight, their profile will show up on your phone. You can see their name, photos of them, mutual friends, and anything else they have chosen to share. ...

Hello

Real-time meetups, mapping and navigation in a fun, social way.
Hello is an always-on, real-time location system. It records snapshots of your day and shares them with friends building the digital diary of your life. We’ve developed new algorithms for extremely detailed location information - like understanding which company ...

Glancee

Location-based social discovery
Glancee makes it fun and safe to meet people who share friends and interests with you. With your Facebook profile and our interest-based recommendation engine, we help you find people in your area that you don't know but would enjoy meeting. You can contact them ...

RoomHunt

"Next Generation Craigslist" (JFE S'13)
What if everyone could live in a high quality and affordable apartment? That's the disruptive premise behind RoomHunt, a website where Renters can access over 100,000+ apartment rental listings. Just type in the city and filter by budget, bedrooms, and amenities.

ShopNear.me

Social+Local+Mobile for Fashion Retailers
ShopNear.me is a mobile market place for local fashion retailers. With ShopNear.me, local retailers get instant mobile and web storefront as well as the ability to communicate directly with shoppers via mobile push notifications, emails, as well as different social ...

Periscope

Explore the world in real-time through someone else's eyes
Periscope lets you see the world in real time through someone else's eyes. Where would you explore, if you could teleport somewhere and be in somebody else's shoes? You'll be able to learn more about Periscope later this year. Please reach out to us if you're ...

Weave

(YCS14) Local Professional Networking
Weave helps you meet interesting professionals near you. Whenever you are open to connecting, you can use Weave to review interesting professionals nearby. If they also want to meet you, Weave will connect you both. 1) Weave shows you professionals near you that ...

Buddy Drinks

Mobile Commerce & Gifting Platform
Buddy Drinks allows you to send (or receive) a drink from anyone around the world via your smartphone! Now a mere swipe of your iPhone or Android screen will give your friends the greatest gift of all – beer, cocktail, coffee or whatever your drink of choice is. ...

Pure

Pure is today's hang out app
Our goal is to bring singles together today

Yobongo

Communicate more efficiently.
Yobongo is a fun new way to chat with people around you. It’s a place for authentic conversations with people who are physically nearby, whom you might not know yet. Open the app and you’re instantly chatting with real people nearby. Find someone really interesting? ...

Unwind App

Uber for Massage
Massage is great, but booking a massage is a pain. Unwind is going to make booking a massage with a qualified therapist as easy as booking a black car through Uber. Unwind will immediately connect you with a massage therapist who is available for you on your ...

HearItLocal

The booking and crowd-funding platform for live music.
Hear It Local is the booking and payment platform for live music. Our platform empowers fans to discover top talent, book the band, and invite friends to the event. Event hosts can even pre-sell tickets to their house concert, fundraiser, or live music party. ...

NewAer

SDK to make applications smart by auto-executing actions based upon whom or what is nearby
Our SDK goes into developer's Android, iOS or Windows applications to give them environmental awareness when GPS may not give effective resolution or pull too much power. We trigger actions upon any radio a mobile device can see and are a precursor to iBeacon ...

GiveMeTap

The TOMS shoes of water bottles
With every GiveMeTap bottle purchased you get free water refills from a network of cafes and restaurants in your city, and we provide one person in Africa with access to clean drinking water. Use our iPhone application or look out for our windows stickers to find ...

Cleanify

Cleaning Service Marketplace
Cleanify brings every cleaning service on demand. Access real-time pricing & availability of every service provider serving your area. Cleaning partners are offered a new revenue channel, free service management tools and more!

navisens

3D indoor location using motion sensors. No WiFi. No GPS. Winner Best Tech @LAUNCH 2013
Navisens™ is a software-only solution designed to locate mobile devices in all environments: indoors within multi-level buildings, underground, and outdoors. Our patent-pending motionDNA™ technology processes data from inertial sensors (accelerometers and gyroscopes) ...

Sceene

A remote control for life.
Sceene is a remote control for life. A social discovery platform that lets people personalize the real world – with the tap of a button.

Yep!

Real People, Right Now
I created Yep because i'm sick of seeing people more interested in their smartphones than real life. I'm a firm believer in spontaneity, which is why Yep offers 1-hour search for company with no history of messages. My big bet is for Yep to become a simple answer ...

HomeDine

AirBnb for meals
Basically, think CouchSurfing or AirBNB for food, where you can go on your computer or mobile and invite people over to share a meal. It’s geared towards people who are into food and meeting new people, the idea being to offer an alternative to going out to a restaurant, ...

Viatask

Let others run your errands
Viatask is a social errand-running platform. It connects users who don't have time to run their errands and those who are looking to make some commission by completing tasks for others in their neighborhood. The customers are those who don't have time to complete ...

Live Colony

The new way to buy, sell and trade with others (really) nearby
Hi-Lo, from Live Colony, is the mobile mall where buyers and sellers hook up for lighting fast deals. It’s perfectly suited for places with a lot of people in walking distance, like… Events. Get an extra ticket at the game, or sell one at the gate when your friend ...

Hint

Context-aware mobile search. Hint helps you know what to do next by leveraging your data.
Hint is a context-aware, mobile search engine that helps you enjoy life while never missing important messages. Hint predicts and anticipates what you'll do next, and then assists you in doing our recommendations, whether it be making a dinner reservation or ...

map2app

Create Your Mobile Travel Guide!
map2app is a browser-based platform that allows to create travel guides for iPhone, Android and HTML5. Our customers are people and companies working with travel related content that are looking for an easy, economical and fast way to have a multi-platform mobile ...

Rock Your Block

LinkedIn For Youth
Rock Your Block's mission is to give youth access to develop the skills and experience they need for a successful career path. By 2025, 50% of the current workforce will be run by the millennial generation, yet current youth unemployment rates are at an all-time ...

Chalkboard

Connecting local biz to people nearby instantly, locally and socially on mobile & web.
Chalkboard is a daily marketing solution for EVERY small business enabling businesses to communicate instantly, locally and socially over mobile and web. The business owners can communicate today’s special, real-time updates and business information to people ...

Pins

Acquired by Square in 2014
Pins is the easiest way to remember and share your favorite places. Just drop a Pin for the place you want to remember. Keep them organized colors and #hashtags. Journalize your experience taking pictures, adding private notes and building your own favorite lists ...

Moojive

Simple location sharing for events (SM12)
Moojive is a mobile app that extends your Facebook event experience. It makes it easy to share your location for group events and saves you the hassle of calling or texting to find your friends when heading out without draining your battery. Think Highlight for ...

Ditto.me

Share what you're up to & get recommendations about restaurants, movies and things to do
Looking to hang out? Find out what your friends are up to, have a conversation, or get a group together. Ditto makes it easy to get recommendations about restaurants, movies and things to do. Download the app, and start Dittoing!

Inzopa

Marketplace for Skills (Connecting Consumers to Mortgage Brokers)
Linkedin = Resume whereas Inzopa = Transaction History + Yelp reviews for bankers and realtors. Target sector - Housing. Launch geography - San Francisco.

Jigglist

Powering fast group coordination (AngelPad 7)
Jigglist is a mobile messaging service that helps friends get together in a simple and fun way. It's the next evolution of location based services, which brings together chat, search, maps, reviews, scheduling into one seamless mobile experience. People are using ...

Spoondate

Meet online. Eat offline.
Meet and eat with people who love the food you love. Spoondate lets users share their food cravings. For example: "I'm craving a sushi at Zushi Puzzle." Members in the same area can request to join for a meal, or search for others who are interested in specific ...

Wishdates

It's your personal dating organizer.
Wishdates is your personal dating organizer. At WishDates we let users to invite close friends, form a dating group and meet similar group of opposite sex: our algorithms helps select a mutually acceptable popular local venue we pull from geolocation APIs. When ...

TradeGig

Bargain. Exchange. Serviced.
Imagine a community where you receive services from John, Mary, and Peter by offering your skills to Jennifer. Welcome to TradeGig (TG). TG is a social barter community where you offer what you do best to anyone, from painting portraits, repairing household ...