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Gaming and media

Fam

Fam is a group video calling social network to talk with your friends and make new friends. Fam was part of Y-Combinator’s Summer ’17 batch under FriendSpot.

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2
Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
2
Techstars, Y Combinator
competitors
6
Mapped from High Signal graph features.
status
generated
D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
source evidence
Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #1309

Fam is a group video calling social network to talk with your friends and make new friends. Fam was part of Y-Combinator’s Summer ’17 batch under FriendSpot.

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Techstars

techstars-portfolio #3858

SmackHigh is the place for teens to express themselves and be heard.

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High Signal interpretation

Fam is classified as Gaming and media from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
FriendSpotSmackHigh
mapping method
Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Fam

Gaming and media · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Fridge

match 44

The Fridge is a platform for lightweight single serving social networks for the functionality of Facebook without being on Facebook. The Fridge makes private conversation, media, and event sharing dead simple. The Fridge is like Tumblr for social networks. Anyone can easily create shared spaces, invite their friends and socialize/share photos, videos, music, and more. The Fridge reinvents how groups interact online allowing users to cut through the clutter of their social graph and create lightw

shared product terms: group, video, social, network; same category: Gaming and media; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

QuirkChat

match 28

Video social network for anime and geek commentary. 30,000 beta users, (+) 5,000 since launch in April '21. Backed by Snapchat and Techstars.

shared product terms: video, social, network; same category: Gaming and media; shared affiliation: Techstars

Hollerback

match 28

A mobile app that lets you talk to friends and family through short, fun video messages

shared product terms: video, talk, friend; same category: Gaming and media; shared affiliation: Techstars

Basement

match 25

The social network for your close friends.

shared product terms: social, network, friend; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

All Screen

match 25

140Fire is the fastest growing online video ad network. Brands and agencies utilize 140Fire for it's suite of engagement and data tools which make media buying 10x more effective when it comes to running video ads. Backed by Y Combinator, Mark Cuban, Jonathan Kraft and Skip Paul, 140Fire is based in Santa Monica and has 15 employees.

shared product terms: video, network, combinator; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Edupops

match 19

Social learning app with short videos

shared product terms: social, video; same category: Gaming and media