Lips

Lips is a blockchain-enabled social commerce platform for women and the LGBTQ+ community - a space where these voices are allowed, acknowledged & valued.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Media and Entertainment
  • Location San Diego, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2018
  • Employees 3
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website lips.social

Company Summary

At Lips we are building a new kind of social commerce platform that:

- Leverages machine learning to eliminate hate speech

- Uses an intersectional moderation process to reduce algorithmic bias

- Allows for age-verified encrypted posting using blockchain

- Allows brands to promote and sell directly to a supportive community (revenue from brand subscriptions & advertisements)

- Gives users 100% ownership of their content using blockchain

Team

  • Founder

    Annie is a contributor Forbes on the topics of AI, Blockchain and Diversity in Tech, and a guest lecturer at UC San Diego's Rady School of Management. Previously, she worked for gender equality organizations such as Grameen Bank, Humsafar Trust and Planned Parenthood, and has participated in Y Combinator as the Communications Director for Konsus (YC W16) and SafetyWing (YC W18).

  • Community Manager

    Previously, Val worked on other projects in the sex tech industry such as the Wheel of Foreplay app with Bryony Cole and blogged for ForPlayFilms.com. Val graduated in May of 2019 from Harvard College where she studied Social Studies and Economics and wrote her senior thesis on feminist and queer debates about pornography titled, "Beyond Pleasure and Danger: Autonomy and the Ethics of Pornography."

  • Julija Rukanskaite
    Art Director & UX Designer

    Julija holds a degree in Interaction Design from Malmo University in Sweden. Her interests include the potential of the virtual world and its artistic implications, as well as feminist Internet principles. She has also served as Co-Curator of The Artist as a Digital Archivist project, an international curatorial project that explores how narratives are constructed based on the model of digital archiving.

Advisors

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