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Amino

The Amino app provides access to hundreds of thousands of communities, each a complete social network dedicated to a single topic. Anyone can create a community on Amino and the most promising communities become their own standalone mobile apps, while still living on Amino’s network.

Popular communities include those built around musical genres, hobbies like car repair, video games, fandoms, and television shows such as Game of Thrones. The largest of these communities has more than one million members, with the app notching up more than 13 million downloads and available in six languages.

Chief executive Ben Anderson and chief technology officer Yin Wang were inspired by fan conventions such as ComicCon and Anime Boston. Strangers come together because they have a shared passion. Amino wanted to provide this experience 24/7 instead of just once a year. Backed by $27m (£21m) of venture capital funding, the 30-strong team is split between New York and Shanghai

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