StoryPress

Instagram of Stories
StoryPress is a social network built on stories. Similar to how Instagram is social network built on images or Vine on short movies. Unlike other products though, StoryPress focuses on the power and authenticity of someones own voice and can even facilitate ...

Small World Labs

White Label/SaaS Social Networking Software

Built In Austin

All-inclusive online hub for Austin tech.
With the most comprehensive list of open job opportunities, startups, events, and local tech news, you can navigate and stay updated on the Austin tech community through our all-inclusive online platform. Think of it as a TechCrunch meets hyperlocal LinkedIn.

State of Debate

Online government simulation
State of Debate aims to bring the ideals of government, debate, and intelligent social interaction together. Through a series of cheap psychological gimmicks, State of Debate will soon have everyone enthralled.

OneSeventeen Media, Inc.

Innovating how kids use social
It’s tough living in a digital world. We combine technology, data and socio-emotional principles to create a new digital platform that helps kids manage social pressures. Focused on 13-19 year olds, social media tools allow them to logically and methodically deal ...

Toutpost

Reviews of everything
We crowdsource product reviews by getting people to talk about the products they love in a conversational manner. Users create comparisons which are shared with their friends and users on our site. (YC S13)

Scripbe

Twitter designed for News Publishing
Scripbe is a modern social news platform designed for both readers and publishers, with current focus on converting over 26,000 high schools to Scripbe from either independent WordPress websites or printing papers. Unlike any competition, Scripbe doesn’t have hosting, ...

Nabaroo

Modern day social network for artists
A modern day social network for visual artists. Think Deviant Art 2.0 (minus the subpar artwork). http://nabaroo.com/about Connect. Create. Inspire. Meet the creatives: http://nabaroo.com/creatives Explore the artwork: http://nabaroo.com/explore?sort=popular Discussions: http://nabaroo.com/discussions Follow ...

Kampfire

Online gaming/social network
Online gaming/social network, with an online store. Initially there will be a combination of 6 games a person will choose from, including beer pong. The online store will create a forum for sponsors to market their product and to market our own line of apparel ...

IR Smartt

Inbound Investor Relations
Investor Relations professionals are up against major time and budget restrictions. The problem with most of the social media tools that are available is that they're just too cumbersome to drive, requiring daily monitoring that IROs just simply don't have time ...

Vuevent Inc.

Event, Activity, Recommendation Engine
Vuevent delivers a unique software platform and application oriented around personalized events, activities and recommendations that brings significant benefits to both consumers and businesses / organizations For consumers: - Discovery and access to events they ...

Okudos

Personal Motivation Platform

Stoodify

Find, connect and share with your classmates
Stoodify helps students find their classmates, connect with them without using their personal social networks or contact info, and then share messages, links, pictures, videos, etc.

Ricochet Labs

Mobile Platform for Creating a Game Layer Across All Information
Our mobile-social-geo platform called Qrank makes it easy for anyone with content to create mobile games that you play with people around you. Our platform takes a classic form of gameplay, the question and answer quiz, and injects it with all of the cool stuff ...

LifeScribe

Tell meaningful stories together.
Every life matters. LifeScribe helps friends and families gather and share meaningful memories of a life well lived. You Share-- Invite friends and family. Give stories depth through their perspective. We Guide-- Let LifeScribe lead you through sharing the stories, ...

iM5

Discover the best suggestions, then Do It!
Derived from “Inspire Me” and the apps “Hi-5” button, iM5 is a free consumer social network (iOS & Android) where users crowdsource suggestions. Whether it’s finding upcoming events, achieving personal goals, or collaborating to create social change, iM5 is exclusively ...

TwitrPix

Instant media sharing
TwitrPix lets you discover and instantly share media by email, mobile phone, desktop browser addons, the web and your webcam. http://twitrpix.com

Pync

Mobile App for Parent Networking
A web/mobile app for YOUNG CHILDREN'S (Pre-K - 5th grade) EDUCATION (more specifically, after-school education) that; - provides program information and reviews about after school activities (e.g. restaurant & travel reviews) - enables parents to share and discuss ...

Keepstream

Dead-simple social media curation
Keepstream is a social media curation tool that lets you save tweets, Facebook posts, and website bookmarks into shareable, embeddable collection pages like this: http://jimengland.tumblr.com/post/4176193023/more-than-just-a-tweet Collections are useful for bloggers, ...

StickyPop

Newsfeeds Exclusive to Location
Stickypop is a mobile application enabling users to communicate with others in their direct environment by creating geo-social newsfeeds (Spots) exclusive to their location. A specific radius restricts a Spot’s size and only other users located within this radius ...

Voxle

Conversation Channels for Communities
We are a structured content publishing platform for communities. Our simple yet robust system allows community leaders and small publishers who engage a unified offline community to build a content-rich online network around industry-related topics that then encourages ...

Nodify Inc.

Capture events completely, from every angle, with zero-coordination, for free.
Capture an event from every perspective with zero prior-coordination. Nodify lets us revisit the past with unprecedented clarity by creating a "central hub" for all types of content from an event and making it super-easy to contribute, navigate and enjoy that ...

Awethentic

A brand storytelling platform

beek

Facebook for booklovers
Beek is a social network for Spanish-speaking booklovers. Through a mobile application, beekers are able to follow other beekers to share their reading shelves, give and get book recommendations, and talk about their book opinions.

GoghBid

A social network and bidding platform for custom art
The purpose of LetsGOGH is to provide useful services for the art community, seek continuous feedback, and provide an efficient market for the sale and origination of art. There are three core challenges that LetsGOGH seeks to address: 1. Galleries have too much ...

Global Genius Society

LinkedIn/Amazon for Artist/Consumers
Global Genius Society displays and sells lesser known, yet very talented artists' work through our site. We provide a social media network, like LinkedIn, specifically made for artists to meet and collaborate with each other. We also publish captivating articles ...

Tejas Securities Group

GroupWink

Location-based Group Dating (match.com)
GroupWink on CNN Money at SXSW: http://cnnmon.ie/GMkfbr GroupWink in Austin American Statesman: http://bit.ly/KQ6ln1 GroupWink is a social, location-based way for groups of friends to connect and meet new people. By identifying entire groups of friends instead ...

Peepsqueeze Inc.

Group Video Communicator (combo of Youtube & Evite)
We are the next generation of social video. We provide users with a fun and easy app to assemble a video montage of their friends, with their friends, wherever they are. Our app combines multiple videos, from multiple sources, into 1 downloadable video. However, ...

Empower Lounge

Inc. For Women Entrepreneurs
Empower Lounge is a bootstrapped women’s digital media startup serving up a mix of visually-inspiring, original and curated business content focused on helping women entrepreneurs launch and build $1M+ companies. We help women tap into the wisdom, resources, inspiration ...