69 Best Social Network Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Social Network 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 119 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $11.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $160.5m.

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

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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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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

OYO (company) logo

OYO (company)

OYO is a south East Asian hospitality company.

5

Funding Rounds

$3.4b

Money raised

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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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Viadeo

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

11

Funding Rounds

$84.4m

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

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DSCVR

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

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Career Karma

Career Karma offers a platform to discover peers, coaches and mentors to accelerate an individual's career. Career Karma helps people find career advice and job training to navigate their careers. Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. We help over 2.5 million workers navigate their careers.

3

Funding Rounds

$51.5m

Money raised

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PatientsLikeMe

PatientsLikeMe is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based provider of a personalized health network which connects patients to treatments and studies.

3

Funding Rounds

$115.0m

Money raised

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Glasp Inc.

Glasp is a social web highlighter for active learners, readers, and writers.

1

Funding Rounds

$400.0k

Money raised

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Sleeper (company)

Sleeper is a California-based fantasy sports platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

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ClassDojo

ClassDojo is a classroom management software platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$71.6m

Money raised

EverTrue logo

EverTrue

EverTrue is a Boston-based company founded in 2010 by Eric Carlstrom, Brent Grinna and Jesse Bardo.

4

Funding Rounds

$12.6m

Money raised

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Newsela

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$172.2m

Money raised

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Fishbrain

Fishbrain is an AI-powered sports fishing app for anglers founded in 2023 by Johan Attby, Marcus Fransson, Jens Persson and Jakob Mattsson.

5

Funding Rounds

$56.4m

Money raised

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Her (company)

Her is a dating and social application for LGBTQ+ people founded in 2013.

1

Funding Rounds

$160.0k

Money raised

Relation logo

Relation

Relation is building a social infrastructure on Web3.

1

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

Declara logo

Declara

Declara is a company that develops knowledge sharing software.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

Ladder logo

Ladder

Ladder is a professional community platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.4m

Money raised

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Academia.edu

Academia.edu is a social networking website founded in 2008.

5

Funding Rounds

$33.8m

Money raised

Kamcord logo

Kamcord

Kamcord is a company providing a social media platform that allows its users to post and interact through video contents. It participated in the S12 cohort of Y Combinator.

1

Funding Rounds

$20.0k

Money raised

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Tongal

Tongal is a company that has developed an online platform for content creation

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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Earn.com

Earn.com was a company that made a platform for digital currency services. It was acquired by Coinbase in 2018.

3

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

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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

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Sharechat

Sharechat is a company founded in 2015 by Farid Ahsan, Ankush Sachdeva and Bhanu Singh.

9

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

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Hike (company)

Hike is a company designing and developing mobile messaging applications.

4

Funding Rounds

$261.0m

Money raised

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WhoKnows (company)

WhoKnows developed an omni-channel lead generation platform, powered by AI, for use in startup companies.

5

Funding Rounds

$4.8m

Money raised

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Edmodo

Edmodo is a social networking service founded in 2008 by Crystal Hutter.

3

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

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Fitocracy

A company offering a fitness social network that allows users to track their fitness progress and motivate each other.

1

Funding Rounds

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ReverbNation

ReverbNation is a website that is meant to connect artists to the music industry

3

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

Roposo logo

Roposo

Roposo is an India-based company founded in 2013 by Khushboo Chouhan.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

StudyBlue logo

StudyBlue

StudyBlue is a company that provides online flashcards and class notes.

6

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

Triller logo

Triller

Triller is a New York-based company that focuses on an AI-Powered video app and social platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$333.0m

Money raised

Northpass logo

Northpass

Northpass (formerly SchoolKeep) is an LMS for customer, partner and workforce training.

3

Funding Rounds

$16.3m

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

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Revel (company)

A company gathering women over the age of 50 in events where they can share their knowledge and experiences.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

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Fuze (company)

Formerly ThinkingPhones, Fuze is a cloud-based communications and collaboration solution that connects organizations across devices.

3

Funding Rounds

$284.0m

Money raised

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Bunch (mobile game company)

Bunch is a San Francisco-based company behind a mobile app which lets groups of friends play video games together from their phones.

3

Funding Rounds

$27.9m

Money raised

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Artifact Labs

Leading the development of cultural and historical NFTs to preserve and connect history on the blockchain. Experience the future of historical preservation with our company's web3 products and platforms.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

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Peanut (company)

Peanut is a software company that has created a mobile application to connect mothers so they can discuss various aspects of motherhood.

2

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

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Couchsurfing International

Couchsurfing International is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2004 by Daniel Hoffer.

2

Funding Rounds

$22.6m

Money raised

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Axial (company)

Axial is the trusted financial technology platform for business owners and their M&A advisors to safely and intelligently research, connect and transact with strategic and financial capital partners.

1

Funding Rounds

$14.0m

Money raised

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Chillabit

An application giving live feed of funny and relatable student stories.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.9m

Money raised

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VidMob

VidMob is a New York-based company founded in 2014 by Alex Collmer.

6

Funding Rounds

$242.5m

Money raised

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Inspide

Developer of a geo-intelligence platform intended to respond to geolocated data needs of businesses. The company's spatial intelligence platform allows users to learn about customers and the places they move through, enabling clients to perform hyper-segmentation and detailed predictions to derive actionable insights.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

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Diem

Diem is a new social media platform designed inclusively for women & non-binary folks.

4

Funding Rounds

$39.5m

Money raised

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Mzinga, Inc.

Mzinga is a company that supplies learning technologies for employee and customer LMS, API tracking and reporting, and learning content authoring.

2

Funding Rounds

$42.5m

Money raised

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Beek (company)

Beek is a book review site in Latin America founded in 2015.

1

Funding Rounds

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OMGPop

OMGPop is a company developing social games for Facebook, iPhone and the open web. It participated in the S06 cohort of Y Combinator. Zynga acquired OMGPop in 2012.

4

Funding Rounds

$6.5m

Money raised

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24symbols

24symbols was founded by Aitor Grandes, Angel Luengo, David Sánchez and Justo Hidalgo in 2010.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.9m

Money raised

Medlinker logo

Medlinker

Medlinker provides a mobile platform for physicians China.

7

Funding Rounds

$761.0m

Money raised

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CafeMom

Company

2

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

Farcaster logo

Farcaster

Farcaster is a sufficiently decentralized social network.

1

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

Ladders logo

Ladders

Ladders is the leading source for professional career news & advice.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.3m

Money raised

HouseTab logo

HouseTab

HouseTab is a company founded in 2011 by Patrick G. Campi, Rob B. Campbell and Niko Plaitakis.

1

Funding Rounds

$30.0k

Money raised

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SocialGO (company)

SocialGO is a company founded in 2007 by Ross Crawford.

2

Funding Rounds

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Uniper Care

A company providing a social network for connecting elderly adults.

2

Funding Rounds

$18.5m

Money raised

Danggeun Market logo

Danggeun Market

Danggeun Market is a company founded in 2015.

2

Funding Rounds

$195.0m

Money raised

Incubapps Limited logo

Incubapps Limited

Incubapps Limited is a Spanish Infotech company.

1

Funding Rounds

$604.9k

Money raised

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Hyperconnect, Inc.

Hyperconnect is a social video chat application.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.6m

Money raised

Goodwall logo

Goodwall

Goodwall is a company founded in 2014 by Omar Bawa.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.6m

Money raised

Livemocha logo

Livemocha

Livemocha is a Brazil, Indiana-based company founded in 2007.

3

Funding Rounds

$19.0m

Money raised

Edoome logo

Edoome

Edoome is a company founded by Leonardo de la Fuente, Sebastián de la Fuente and Francisco Rubio.

1

Funding Rounds

$40.0k

Money raised

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BraveNew

BraveNew is an enterprise knowledge sharing platform founded in 2008.

2

Funding Rounds

$745.8k

Money raised

Bryq logo

Bryq

Bryq is a talent Intelligence Platform founded in 2017 by Alex Vratskides.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.4m

Money raised

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Xyleme

Xyleme delivers content management (authoring, publishing, delivery, and analytics) for learning and development.

1

Funding Rounds