67 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 111 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $9.4b. The average funding per company in this subset is $140.3m.

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

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Funding Rounds

$286.0m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$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.

5

Funding Rounds

$3.4b

Money raised

OYO is a south East Asian hospitality company.

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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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11

Funding Rounds

$84.4m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$19.5m

Money raised

Remind is a company founded in 2011 by Brett Kopf.

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2

Funding Rounds

$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.

3

Funding Rounds

$51.5m

Money raised

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.

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1

Funding Rounds

$400.0k

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

Sleeper is a California-based fantasy sports platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$71.6m

Money raised

ClassDojo is a classroom management software platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$12.6m

Money raised

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

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6

Funding Rounds

$172.2m

Money raised

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform.

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5

Funding Rounds

$56.4m

Money raised

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

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1

Funding Rounds

$160.0k

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

2

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$21.0m

Money raised

Declara is a company that develops knowledge sharing software.

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2

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$7.4m

Money raised

Ladder is a professional community platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$33.8m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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

9

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

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

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5

Funding Rounds

$4.8m

Money raised

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

1

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

3

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$8.0m

Money raised

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

1

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$10.0m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$114.8m

Money raised

virtual platform to create and share 3D interactive experiences

4

Funding Rounds

$333.0m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$16.3m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$140.0m

Money raised

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

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1

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$284.0m

Money raised

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$27.9m

Money raised

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

1

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$3.3m

Money raised

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.

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2

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

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

2

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$22.6m

Money raised

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

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1

Funding Rounds

$14.0m

Money raised

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.9m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

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.

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6

Funding Rounds

$242.5m

Money raised

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

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4

Funding Rounds

$39.5m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$42.5m

Money raised

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

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1

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.9m

Money raised

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

7

Funding Rounds

$761.0m

Money raised

Medlinker provides a mobile platform for physicians China.

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Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

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$7.3m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$30.0k

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

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SocialGO is a company founded in 2007 by Ross Crawford.

2

Funding Rounds

$18.5m

Money raised

A company providing a social network for connecting elderly adults.

2

Funding Rounds

$195.0m

Money raised

Danggeun Market is a company founded in 2015.

1

Funding Rounds

$604.9k

Money raised

Incubapps Limited is a Spanish Infotech company.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.6m

Money raised

Hyperconnect is a social video chat application.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.6m

Money raised

Goodwall is a company founded in 2014 by Omar Bawa.

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3

Funding Rounds

$19.0m

Money raised

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

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$40.0k

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$745.8k

Money raised

BraveNew is an enterprise knowledge sharing platform founded in 2008.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.4m

Money raised

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

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1

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

1

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

CompanyTrell is a lifestyle social commerce platform where users share 3-minute videos showing their interests.

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3

Funding Rounds

$18.5m

Money raised

MyHealthTeams is a company founded in 2012.

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Tonsser is a company founded in 2014.

2

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$587.5k

Money raised

Social networking company focused on sharing food recipes and healthy lifestyle tips.

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$643.3k

Money raised

2

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

SNS Platform to build connections and be who you are anonymously.

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Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

Thatgamecompany is a video game development studio founded in 2006 by Jenova Chen.

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