30 Best Digital Community Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Digital Community Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 30 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $94.2m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Twitch logo

Twitch

Twitch is a livestreaming video platform and community for gamers.

3

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Ning (website) logo

Ning (website)

Ning is an online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks.

4

Funding Rounds

$134.0m

Money raised

Patreon logo

Patreon

Patreon is a San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform for artists and creators founded by Jack Conte and Sam Yam in 2013.

8

Funding Rounds

$398.6m

Money raised

Whatnot logo

Whatnot

Whatnot is a California-based livestream shopping platform and marketplace.

7

Funding Rounds

$484.7m

Money raised

Launch House logo

Launch House

Launch House is a physical and digital community for entrepreneurs and creators.

2

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

Public.com logo

Public.com

Public.com is a New York City and Copenhagen-based developer of an investing and social media platform which offers commission free investing with a social community around it.

5

Funding Rounds

$1.3b

Money raised

Substack logo

Substack

A software company that allows users to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.

3

Funding Rounds

$80.3m

Money raised

Common Room logo

Common Room

Common Room is a Seattle-based software company working to deepen organizations' relationships across communities.

3

Funding Rounds

$52.9m

Money raised

Popshop Live logo

Popshop Live

Popshop Live is an e-commerce platform.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Houseparty logo

Houseparty

Houseparty is a San Francisco-based developer of a group video chat application for face-to-face social media and connection.

2

Funding Rounds

$19.3m

Money raised

Busuu logo

Busuu

Busuu is a company that offers language courses to practice reading, writing, listening and speaking on desktop and mobile.

4

Funding Rounds

$11.5m

Money raised

Chief logo

Chief

Chief is a New York City-based company founded in 2019 by Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan.

4

Funding Rounds

$140.0m

Money raised

On Deck logo

On Deck

On Deck is an accelerator community and is based in New York City.

4

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

CognitionX logo

CognitionX

Professionally-oriented online knowledge sharing community platform company featuring group-based Q&A, wikis, and other features

1

Funding Rounds

$4.1m

Money raised

CommonStock logo

CommonStock

Commonstock is a social network that amplifies the knowledge of the best investors, verified by actual records.

2

Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

Komi logo

Komi

Komi's vision is to be the one-stop-shop for Talent to fully engage fans around the world

3

Funding Rounds

$18.2m

Money raised

Butter logo

Butter

Video platform designed to make online meetings and workshops flow smoothly.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

Moment House logo

Moment House

Moment House is a digital live platform for artists and creators.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

StartPlaying logo

StartPlaying

StartPlaying is a San Francisco-based company offering an online community and event marketplace for tabletop game players.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.5m

Money raised

Flow Club logo

Flow Club

Flow Club is a San Francisco-based company focusing on building a digital work environment.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

Zigazoo logo

Zigazoo

Zigazoo is a developer of a mobile application for streaming short videos for kids.

1

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

Mentorcam, Inc. logo

Mentorcam, Inc.

Mentorcam is a provider of short mentoring videos from professionals and celebrities.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

Finary logo

Finary

Finary is a discord for Investing founded in 2020 by Julien Blancher, Jack Phifer, Darian Bhathena, Roger Cawdette and Mounir Laggoune.

2

Funding Rounds

$11.4m

Money raised

Myco logo

Myco

Makes it as easy as possible for any group of people to come together and create value online

1

Funding Rounds

Matter (social reading company) logo

Matter (social reading company)

Social reading app for articles, blogs, and newsletters to help users find better content online.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.6m

Money raised

Outvise logo

Outvise

Outvise is the largest professional network of TMD experts serving over 24,000 users and large corporate clients.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

Housell logo

Housell

Housell is changing the way they sell their homes through their digital real estate platform.

1

Funding Rounds

$13.5m

Money raised

Superpeer logo

Superpeer

Superpeer is a platform for virtual and private mentorship.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

The Landing logo

The Landing

The Landing is a developer of a social design platform for users to create together.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

The Joy Club logo

The Joy Club

The Joy Club is an online activity club.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised