Social Starts is an early-stage venture partnership. Its team page states: "We bring long experience of tech revolutions, deep science, SAAS platforms, and research to our intense early-stage investment approach" (the firm's claim, quoted from its site). Its own 21 March 2018 press release describes it as "a $60M+ venture capital partnership and one of the most active moment-of-investment investors in the US". The same release announced Joyance Partners, described as "a new $20M venture capital fund focused on emerging technologies that can help individuals feel happier, healthier, calmer, more confident, less anxious or subject to pain", and said the two would "cooperate on early-stage investments regularly, with Joyance expanding the Social Starts moment-of-inception startup discovery methodology via access to more than 2,000 new company evaluations each year". Joyance shares senior people with Social Starts and is the more recently active of the two brands. Cities named on the team page include San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Austin, Boston and Singapore, with no single headquarters designated.