Investor survey results: Upcoming trends in social startups

Increasingly, consumers (Gen Z’s especially) are seemingly ditching Bumble, Hinge, and Tinder in favor of apps that better cater to their preferences and behaviors. In the last 18 months or so, a new paradigm of dating apps has emerged, many of which draw upon growing behaviors around gaming, live and short-form video (Curtn, Lolly, Snack, Filter O... See more

Among digital natives, everything is social. We see a steady march toward more social products. Examples from the Daybreak portfolio, across a range of sectors:

• Investing: AfterHour, which offers a social hub for trading and financial learning


• Dating: Amori, which takes single-player dating and makes it collaborative and social with LLM-powered ma

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