69 Best Social Innovation Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Social Innovation 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 1,534 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $16.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $240.1m.

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

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Instagram logo

Instagram

Instagram is a Menlo Park-based photo-sharing social media platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$57.5m

Money raised

Reddit logo

Reddit

Reddit is an online platform for social news. It allows communities to submit links, create content, and discuss any topic of their interest.

6

Funding Rounds

$1.3b

Money raised

Twitch logo

Twitch

Twitch is a livestreaming video platform and community for gamers.

3

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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Clubhouse (social media company)

Clubhouse is a San Francisco-based social app offering a space for casual, drop-in audio conversations with friends and other interesting people.

2

Funding Rounds

$110.0m

Money raised

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Quora

Quora is a question-and-answer website founded in 2010 by Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever.

5

Funding Rounds

$286.0m

Money raised

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Distil Networks

Distil Networks was an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

3

Funding Rounds

$22.8m

Money raised

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Strivr

Strivr is a Menlo Park, California-based developer of a virtual reality platform for learning and training employees.

5

Funding Rounds

$86.0m

Money raised

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About.me

About.me is a company that has developed a platform for users to make personal and professional websites.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.7m

Money raised

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TradingView

TradingView is a platform which provides instruments for publication and the viewing of trading ideas.

7

Funding Rounds

$638.8m

Money raised

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Prosper

Prosper is an online peer-to-peer lending marketplace connecting people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions who want to lend money.

9

Funding Rounds

$312.9m

Money raised

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South Pole (company)

South Pole is a Zurich-based climate solutions company offering sustainable project development services in order to provide carbon offset credits to businesses and organizations.

1

Funding Rounds

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IRL (company)

IRL was a social media company with the purpose of connecting users in real life, or "IRL," through in-person events.

4

Funding Rounds

$370.0m

Money raised

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Misterb&b

Misterb&b offers a property rental marketplace used to connect travelers and hosts in the LGBTQ+ community.

4

Funding Rounds

$11.2m

Money raised

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Scopely

Scopely - leading mobile game development company.

8

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

Moz logo

Moz

Moz is a company developing and providing inbound marketing analytics software.

4

Funding Rounds

$30.4m

Money raised

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HackerNoon

HackerNoon is a free online technology blog.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

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OpenInvest

Investing tool and Public Benefit Corporation that emphasizes social responsibility.

6

Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

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VRChat

VRChat is a virtual reality communications platform. It was founded in 2014 and is located in San Francisco, California.

4

Funding Rounds

$95.2m

Money raised

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Lygos

An industrial biotech company developing a commercial bioprocess for manufacturing bio-based malonic acid.

11

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

Badoo logo

Badoo

Badoo is a dating-focused social networking service.

1

Funding Rounds

$30.6m

Money raised

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Weee!

Weee! is an Asian and Hispanic grocer in North America, founded by Larry Liu.

8

Funding Rounds

$863.8m

Money raised

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LenddoEFL

Lenddo EFL offers loans underwritten by social media data to borrowers without established or robust credit histories.

3

Funding Rounds

$14.0m

Money raised

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Dataminr

Dataminr is a company providing a real-time AI platform delivering information on high-impact events and breaking news.

7

Funding Rounds

$1.5b

Money raised

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OYO (company)

OYO is a south East Asian hospitality company.

5

Funding Rounds

$3.4b

Money raised

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Buffer

Buffer is a company founded by Joel Gascoigne, Leo Widrich and Tom Moor.

3

Funding Rounds

$400.0k

Money raised

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SickWeather

An app that aggregates social media data to produce a real-time map of sickness.

5

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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Gupshup

Gupshup is an AI-powered messaging platform that integrates with communication software and protocols for commerce, marketing, and support applications.

5

Funding Rounds

$373.0m

Money raised

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Vyond

Vyond is a video animation software company.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

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Zomato

Zomato is a company providing a search engine application that offers information on restaurants and online food delivery.

5

Funding Rounds

$528.0m

Money raised

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Azimo

Azimo is an online remittance service founded by Marta Krupinska.

3

Funding Rounds

$31.0m

Money raised

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Calaxy

Calaxy Inc., is a US company developing the Calaxy app, an open social marketplace for creators.

4

Funding Rounds

$59.5m

Money raised

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Startfeld

Stiftung Startfeld is a start-up network, providing networking to innovators and entrepreneurs in the St.Gallen Bodensee Area.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.7m

Money raised

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Neighborly

Neighborly drives investment in world-positive infrastructure projects like broadband, solar microgrids, and libraries.

2

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

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Getaround

A company with a car-sharing platform and hardware. It was founded in 2009 and is located in San Francisco, California.

5

Funding Rounds

$502.3m

Money raised

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Hearsay Systems

Hearsay Systems (formerly Hearsay Social) is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) digital marketing platform for financial services that uses predictive analytics to help financial advisors automate marketing tasks.

4

Funding Rounds

$48.0m

Money raised

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WorkSpan

WorkSpan is a company and business ecosystem platform designed to help technology companies grow revenue by co-selling with their partnered companies.

2

Funding Rounds

$36.0m

Money raised

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StartEngine

StartEngine is an equity crowdfunding platform. StartEngine allows non accredited investors invest online, own shares in startups and early growth companies. Over 150 Startups and entrepreneurs have been funded on StartEngine.

2

Funding Rounds

$55.5m

Money raised

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One Planet Pizza

One Planet Pizza is a company making plant-based pizza founded in 2016.

1

Funding Rounds

$490.0k

Money raised

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C3 Protocol

A decentralized capital market powered by a cross-margin cross-collateralization clearing engine protocol.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised

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Rival IQ

Rival IQ is a Seattle-based social media analytics and competitive benchmarking company.

5

Funding Rounds

$1.9m

Money raised

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Zopa

Zopa is a peer-to-peer lending platform founded in 2005 by Giles Andrews.

14

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

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Staax

Staax is a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer lending and payment platform allowing users to purchase and send fractional shares of stocks.

1

Funding Rounds

$120.0k

Money raised

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Thumbtack

Thumbtack is a company operating an online platform for finding and hiring workers for particular tasks.

9

Funding Rounds

$973.2m

Money raised

Degreed logo

Degreed

Degreed is a San Francisco-based company founded by David Blake.

11

Funding Rounds

$598.0m

Money raised

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Course Hero

Course Hero is a Redwood City, CA based company that provides access to study resources, test prep, tutors, etc.

3

Funding Rounds

$405.0m

Money raised

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Fauna Inc

Fauna Inc is a data application programming interface for applications.

5

Funding Rounds

$81.8m

Money raised

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Snackpass

Snackpass is a technology company that develops solutions for ordering food for take-out from local restaurants.

2

Funding Rounds

$93.5m

Money raised

Olio logo

Olio

Olio is a London-based sharing company working to solve the problem of food waste and hunger.

4

Funding Rounds

$95.9m

Money raised

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Brandwatch

Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$59.5m

Money raised

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The Block

Cryptocurrency company/ The Block is the first and final word in digital assets.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

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NewsWhip

NewsWhip is a predictive media monitoring tool founded in 2011 by Paul Quigley.

7

Funding Rounds

$35.3m

Money raised

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Clickable (company)

A company with search engine marketing and social media management software for advertisers and agencies to manage search and social marketing. It was founded in 2006 and was acquired by LookSmart in 2013.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

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Promptly

Promptly is a company founded by Richard D. Titus.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

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SoundCloud

SoundCloud is an entertainment company providing an online audio distribution platform for listening to music and podcasts.

6

Funding Rounds

$208.3m

Money raised

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Depop

Depop is a mobile application for e-commerce buying, selling, or discovery of products.

9

Funding Rounds

$208.2m

Money raised

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Disqus

A software company providing a blog comment hosting service for websites.

3

Funding Rounds

$10.5m

Money raised

Buddy Media logo

Buddy Media

Buddy Media is a social media marketing platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$86.1m

Money raised

CompleteSet logo

CompleteSet

CompleteSet is a company that acts as a world archive for collectibles, founded by Gary Darna and Jaime Rump.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0k

Money raised

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BeReal.

BeReal is social media platform that prompts users to take one photo each day at a random time.

1

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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Viadeo

Viadeo is a social networking service founded in 2004 by Dan Serfaty.

11

Funding Rounds

$84.4m

Money raised

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Popular Pays

Popular Pays is company providing a platform connecting brands with creators to produce custom content and generate awareness.

4

Funding Rounds

$8.6m

Money raised

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Foods for Tomorrow

Foods for Tomorrow is a plant-based food technology company located in Barcelona, Spain that was founded by Marc Coloma in 2017. Foods for Tomorrow makes a plant-based protein ingredient called Heura that mimics the texture of meat.

2

Funding Rounds

$270.0k

Money raised

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Meetup

A company with a platform to organize the meeting of groups for both leisure and professional purposes. It was founded in 2002 and is located in New York City.

5

Funding Rounds

$18.3m

Money raised

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Caring.com

Caring.com is an elderly care company.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

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Astroscreen

An artificial intelligence company that has created software to combat astroturfing, harmful social media manipulation campaigns. It was founded in 2018 and has offices in London, England and San Francisco, California.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Planplan

Planplan is a company founded in 2023 offering an open source product and ecommerce search engine

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DroneSeed

DroneSeed is a Seattle-based company that provides automated reforestation services.

8

Funding Rounds

$77.3m

Money raised

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Moteefe

An e-commerce company with an online platform where entrepreneurs can advertise their custom merchandise brands. It was founded in 2014 and is located in London, England.

5

Funding Rounds

$34.2m

Money raised

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Remind (company)

Remind is a company founded in 2011 by Brett Kopf.

3

Funding Rounds

$19.5m

Money raised