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    Social Starts

    San Francisco, California, United StatesFounded 2012

    Social Starts is a venture capital partnership that uses a data-driven approach to invest at the moment of inception and in Series A financing rounds. The firm focuses on identifying the strongest companies in sectors such as e-commerce, employment platforms, digital brands, next-generation food, biotech, education, and health and happiness.

    Their most common stage is seed (46% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $6.4M (across 57 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    43

    Fund Size

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    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    Mike Edelhart

    Mike Edelhart

    Managing Partner

    Andrew Nealon

    Andrew Nealon

    PARTNER & CTO

    Patrick Nicoll

    Patrick Nicoll

    General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer

    William Lohse

    William Lohse

    Founder Emeritus

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    59 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Statespace logoStatespaceSeries C$50MSep 2021
    Beam Health logoBeam HealthSeed$1.5MMay 2021
    Copper Cow Coffee logoCopper Cow CoffeeSeries A$8.5MMay 2021
    Gentem logoGentemSeries A$10MFeb 2021
    Outer logoOuterSeries A$10.5MJan 2021
    Copper Cow Coffee logoCopper Cow CoffeeSeries A$8.5MJan 2021
    Outer logoOuterSeed$4.3MJun 2020
    Statespace logoStatespaceSeries A$15MMay 2020
    Rosy logoRosySeed$1MFeb 2020
    Gentem logoGentemGrowth$3.7MJan 2020
    Speechly logoSpeechlySeed—Dec 2019
    Osmosis logoOsmosisSeed$4MJun 2019
    Cassia Networks logoCassia NetworksSeries B$10.3MJan 2019
    Affinio logoAffinioSeries B$11.4MNov 2017
    Vidrovr logoVidrovrSeed$1.3MNov 2017
    Stratifyd logoStratifydSeries A$5.9MJul 2017
    VendorHawk logoVendorHawkSeed$1.2MJun 2017
    BBindedSeed$950KMay 2017
    BBindedGrowth$950KMay 2017
    Vidrovr logoVidrovrSeed$1.3MJan 2017
    Stratifyd logoStratifydSeries A$7MJan 2017
    ZingBox logoZingBoxSeries B$22MJan 2017
    YouEarnedIt logoYouEarnedItSeries A$6.5MJan 2017
    Newswhip logoNewswhipSeries A$6.4MJan 2017
    Cassia Networks logoCassia NetworksSeries B$10.3MOct 2016
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    Last updated: 20 October 2026