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Social Starts

Early-stage venture funds using data analysis to pick startups, now focused on health and happiness

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About Social Starts

Social Starts is a venture capital partnership that invests at the moment a company is formed and in Series A rounds. It uses an analytical method to choose promising segments and the companies within them. Its funds have moved each year toward the areas its analysis rates highest.

What Social Starts offers

  • Pre-seed and Series A investment: early funding for new companies.
  • Data-driven selection: analytics used to find strong segments.
  • Health and Happiness fund: its current fund, for startups helping people live longer, better, or both.
  • Startup community: access to a network of more than 400 other startups.

Who it serves

Early-stage founders. Past hits came from online retail, hiring platforms, consumer brands, new-style food, biotech and learning.

Key facts

  • Active since: 2010
  • Investments: more than 400 across five funds
  • Unicorns: nine in the portfolio, per the firm

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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