69 Best Social Messaging Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Social Messaging 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 1,507 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $16.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $233.3m.

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

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Funding Rounds

$110.0m

Money raised

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

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$286.0m

Money raised

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

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$22.8m

Money raised

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

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$86.0m

Money raised

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

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$16.7m

Money raised

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

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$638.8m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$312.9m

Money raised

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.

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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.

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$370.0m

Money raised

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

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$11.2m

Money raised

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

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$1.2b

Money raised

Scopely - leading mobile game development company.

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Funding Rounds

$30.4m

Money raised

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

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$2.8m

Money raised

HackerNoon is a free online technology blog.

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Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

Investing tool and Public Benefit Corporation that emphasizes social responsibility.

4

Funding Rounds

$95.2m

Money raised

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

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$50.0m

Money raised

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

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$30.6m

Money raised

Badoo is a dating-focused social networking service.

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8

Funding Rounds

$863.8m

Money raised

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

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$14.0m

Money raised

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

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$1.5b

Money raised

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

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5

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$3.4b

Money raised

OYO is a south East Asian hospitality company.

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$400.0k

Money raised

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

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$2.3m

Money raised

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

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$373.0m

Money raised

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

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$50.0m

Money raised

Vyond is a video animation software company.

5

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$528.0m

Money raised

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

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3

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$31.0m

Money raised

Azimo is an online remittance service founded by Marta Krupinska.

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$76.0m

Money raised

Gather is a video-calling platform that combines video conferencing with a two-dimensional video game-like world.

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4

Funding Rounds

$59.5m

Money raised

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

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$50.0m

Money raised

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

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$502.3m

Money raised

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

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$48.0m

Money raised

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.

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$36.0m

Money raised

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

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$55.5m

Money raised

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.

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$490.0k

Money raised

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

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$3.6m

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

5

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$1.9m

Money raised

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

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$1.2b

Money raised

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

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1

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$120.0k

Money raised

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

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9

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$973.2m

Money raised

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

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11

Funding Rounds

$598.0m

Money raised

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$405.0m

Money raised

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

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5

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$81.8m

Money raised

Fauna Inc is a data application programming interface for applications.

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4

Funding Rounds

$95.9m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$93.5m

Money raised

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

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$4.0m

Money raised

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

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$35.3m

Money raised

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

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$1.5m

Money raised

Promptly is a company founded by Richard D. Titus.

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$208.3m

Money raised

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

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3

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$10.9m

Money raised

500Friends was a company developing loyalty marketing programs for brands and retailers. The company was acquired by Merkle in 2014.

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$208.2m

Money raised

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

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$10.0k

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

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$30.0m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$84.4m

Money raised

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

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$8.6m

Money raised

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

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$270.0k

Money raised

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.

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$4.0m

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Caring.com is an elderly care company.

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$1.2m

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Secret was an anonymous social media app.

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$1.0m

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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.

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

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$77.3m

Money raised

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

5

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$34.2m

Money raised

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.

3

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$19.5m

Money raised

Remind is a company founded in 2011 by Brett Kopf.

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4

Funding Rounds

$49.1m

Money raised

An educational technology company with a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes.

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5

Funding Rounds

$383.0m

Money raised

OpenWeb, previously known as Spot.IM, is a conversation platform intended for publishers to start meaningful user discussions.

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$18.0m

Money raised

DSCVR is a decentralized version of Reddit, where users are the owners. Decentralized end-to-end, built on the Internet Computer, and accessible from any browser.

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$19.1m

Money raised

Loris.ai is a platform that assists companies with difficult conversations, founded by Nancy Lublin.

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$572.6m

Money raised

Capsule is a healthcare platform transforming the pharmacy experience founded in 2016 by Eric Kinariwala.

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Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

CapLinked is a Manhattan Beach, California-based secure document management software developer.

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