Social Networking startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Overtone

San Francisco

Overtone, led by the founder and former CEO of Hinge, is building a new kind of dating service to help daters find someone who truly resonates. It has an office in New York City that emphasizes in-person collaboration.

Plura (formerly Bloom Community)

Oakland

Plura, formerly Bloom Community and Together, is a Y Combinator–backed Oakland startup that uses software to bring people together; its founders—Lauren Vegter, Aubrey Tull, and Dan Rhodes—bring tech backgrounds, and the company supports rem

Empathic Labs

San Francisco

San Francisco-based, engineering-first company building AI conversations that feel like real people, with real-time, native integration in FaceTime and iMessage. Backed by BoxGroup and led by a Thiel Fellow and YC alum who recently sold his

RealRoots

San Francisco

RealRoots is an early-stage, women-focused friendship startup that helps women form meaningful, long-lasting friendships in their city, addressing the decline of IRL connection; seed-funded and backed by investors including Y Combinator, Go