TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Peanut , a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. But over the years, the network expanded to support women through other life stages. “Men are never going to build this for us, so we have to build it for ourselves,” she says.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Contra, a professional network for freelance workers, is partnering with TikTok to allow users to showcase their resumes and portfolios via TikTok Jump, the social media service’s third-party integration tool. With this new integration, creators can now add a “View My Portfolio” link to their TikTok content.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Image Credits: Tagg. People are kind of put into a box.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. Users post video reviews of their purchases and can see in real-time data how they did, as well as receive commissions from sales that resulted from their posts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

A new startup called Popcorn wants to make work communication more fun and personal by offering a way for users to record short video messages, or “pops,” that can be used for any number of purposes in place of longer emails, texts, Slack messages or Zoom calls. Image Credits: Popcorn. try mine at U8696).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. We have our own supply chain and we have the power to distribute brands across Asia via our social commerce and live distribution platforms.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Millions.co , a social commerce platform geared towards professional and semi-professional athletes wanting help to monetize their fanbase by selling merch and/or on-demand video, has grabbed $10 million in funding led by Boston-based Volition Capital. “We love Cameo , but we’re really different and focused on sports.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. Instead, the team kept hearing from early adopters how they wanted to store their photos and videos, too, not just audio recordings. Image Credits: Honeycomb. these days.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Last fall, social analytics startup SocialRank sold its product and business to Trufan , allowing the team to focus on something new: a professional social network. “This is the place for your professional social life,” Taub said. Today, they’re officially unveiling Upstream to the public.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

VOCHI , a Belarus-based startup behind a clever computer vision-based video editing app used by online creators, has raised an additional $2.4 To do so, VOCHI leverages a proprietary computer vision-based video segmentation algorithm that applies various effects to specific moving objects in a video or to images in static photos.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Walkie-talkie, a social audio platform developed by Picslo Corp, has raised a $3.25 Audio was coming back into fashion, especially with Gen Z and with the movement around anti-social networking. The company’s seed round comes as social audio apps and features have gained popularity amid the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. Described as a membership-based community, the app aims to connect womxn using storytelling — including through both live video chat sessions as well as with pre-recorded stories that are available at any time. Yoni Circle founder Chloe? Image Credits: Yoni Circle.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Every popular social media platform has opened up a new type of storytelling to a new generation of users, but TikTok’s impact has perhaps been the swiftest as the short-form video platform’s user base has quickly swelled past 1 billion users and transformed how social media stars are made.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Now that all the industry thought leaders have weighed in and published their predictions for what the cybersecurity landscape will look like in 2025, it seems that theres a clear consensus emerging: Both attacks and defense of devices and networks will increasingly be AI-driven as time goes by.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Medal.tv, a short-form video clipping service and social network for gamers, is entering the livestreaming market with the acquisition of Rawa.tv, a Twitch rival based in Dubai, which had raised around $1 million to date. That technology is now coming to Medal.tv. Image Credits: Medal.tv.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As younger consumers are shifting to social apps that focus on video and more personal forms of social networking, a new social app called Studio , launching today, is introducing a group camcorder experience that allows groups of friends to share videos with one another in private albums.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Five months after announcing a $3 million seed round from Spero Ventures , shopping-focused live video host Talkshoplive is back, this time with a $6 million seed extension led by Raine Ventures. Live commerce is today where social media was 15 years ago. The new round of funding gives Los Angeles-based Talkshoplive $10.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The most interesting trend we’re seeing is that new use cases for video and audio are showing up every week,” Hultman Kramer said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

It’s widely known that video streaming boomed during the pandemic, as millions of people were faced by boredom during lockdowns. But an unintended consequence of this was the growing environmental impact of millions of video streams, which meant server farms needing to draw increasing amounts of power from the grid. iSIZE , U.K.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

All major social networks including Instagram , TikTok , and Snapchat have their own take on how collaborations should work. A new app called Along wants to remove all these restrictions to allow infinite-length collaboration videos with multiple creators. The app is based on the concept of infinite videos called “tapes.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Capsule , a video Q&A platform aimed at brands, emerged last year in direct response to the challenges companies were facing in terms of reaching consumers during the pandemic. The brand will then write their questions and prompts for consumers to answer, in the form of short video responses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

TikTok appears to be working on an integration with Lemon8 , another social app owned by TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, according to new findings from product intelligence firm Watchful.ai. The app, a lifestyle social network, had originally launched in arch 2020 but was artificially inflated on TikTok this spring.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Bright , a live video platform that lets fans engage in live conversations with their favorite creators and celebs, has raised $15 million in new funding, the company announced today. Unlike social media creator tools, Bright is focused on knowledge-sharing rather than just gaining likes or follows.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform. (As

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Pinterest is further investing in creator tools and video with today’s news it’s acquired the video creation and editing app, Vochi, for an undisclosed sum. With Vochi, Pinterest says it will have the ability to bring even more quality video to its users.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Twine , a video chat startup that launched amid the pandemic as a sort of “Zoom for meeting new people,” shifted its focus to online events and, as a result, has now closed on $3.3 By January 2021, the new events-focused version of twine was up-and-running, offering a set of professional networking tools for event owners.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. Telecoms are betting on immersive media and see it as one of the most robust use cases for 5G and the future of video streaming. Asia, and Europe. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Bright , a live video platform that lets fans Zoom with their favorite creators and celebs, has raised $15 million in new funding, the company announced today. Unlike social media creator tools, Bright is focused on knowledge-sharing rather than just gaining likes or follows. RIT Capital and Regah Ventures also co-led.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

But today comes news of funding for a startup building a social network for what is probably one of the least digital business sectors of all: independent, small-hold farmers in the developing world. “We compare it to the shift from sending DVDs in the mail to streaming video online. million users. . million members.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Video is at the heart of how people use the internet today, and creators are at the heart of what is being made and watched on video. “It also means going beyond the livestreaming space and bringing our proprietary audience experience-driven technology to YouTube videos where we are creating some industry firsts.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord’s doubling in corporate value comes as the persistent, inept, American response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption and growth of businesses creating virtual social networking opportunities. Those opportunities are apparent in Discord’s explosive growth.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Virtual recruitment events are platforms or environments used by employers and job seekers to connect, share, network, and explore career opportunities. These events use tools such as video conferencing, chat platforms, and virtual booths to recreate the dynamics of an in-person job fair in a digital format.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The Indian social network said it has raised $502 million in a new financing round — Series E — led by Tiger Global that valued ShareChat at $2.1 Snap inked a deal with ShareChat to integrate its Camera Kit into the Indian short-video app earlier this year. billion, up from about $650 million last year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

A new voice-based social app that cites Clubhouse as its biggest inspiration offers a playful new way to stay in touch with close friends and family. Zebra leaves video out of the equation altogether, inviting users to snap on-the-fly photos and send them off paired with casual voice updates.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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