Investor survey results: Upcoming trends in social startups

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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It’s hard to compete with big social networks head-on these days. The network effects of those giant social networks are so strong, a straight-on challenge seems, well, challenging. But there is lots of opportunity to focus on one user niche or one specific form factor.

On my panel, in which we discussed the next social platform, we focused on the idea of new social primitives, and how we’re already starting to see them emerge in games like Fortnite* and Roblox. The below is from Rec Room CEO Nick Fajt:

A few seemingly quirky social apps will tune into the under 16 demographic’s distinct approach to creation as a form of self-expression and tolerance for transparency by default... the future of social is exciting and, contrary to popular belief, will not be constrained to today’s dominant social networks.