Social Media
18 companies in this sector.
| # | Company | Description | Location | Status | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | ByteDance | Chinese technology company and parent of TikTok, operating a portfolio of content platforms powered by AI-driven recommendation algorithms. | Beijing, CN | Private | $8.1B |
| 02 | Snap | Camera and social media company behind Snapchat, the visual messaging app with disappearing messages, Stories, augmented reality Lenses, and Snap Map, reaching over 800 million monthly active users. | Santa Monica, US | Public | $2.6B |
| 03 | Meta | Social technology company (formerly Facebook) operating the world's largest social networking platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, serving billions of users worldwide, with growing investments in virtual and augmented reality through Reality Labs. | Menlo Park, US | Public | $2.4B |
| 04 | Visual discovery and bookmarking platform where users find and save ideas for recipes, home decor, fashion, travel, and more through image-based 'Pins' organized on boards, serving over 450 million monthly active users. | San Francisco, US | Public | $1.5B | |
| 05 | Social news aggregation and discussion platform where users submit, vote on, and discuss content across millions of community-driven forums called subreddits. | San Francisco, US | Public | $1.3B | |
| 06 | Discord | Communication platform for communities and friends, offering voice, video, and text chat used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. | San Francisco, US | Private | $995M |
| 07 | BuzzFeed | BuzzFeed is a digital media company that produces viral, culturally resonant content across entertainment, news, and commerce. Founded as a lab for tracking viral content, it grew into a major media platform known for quizzes, listicles, video (Tasty), and investigative journalism. The company went public via SPAC merger in December 2021 and trades on NASDAQ under the ticker BZFD. | New York, United States | Public | $497M |
| 08 | Bluesky | Decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol, offering an open alternative to centralized platforms. Has grown to over 43 million users with more than 1,000 third-party apps built on its protocol and 400,000 monthly developer tool downloads. | Seattle, United States | Private | $123M |
| 09 | Professional networking platform connecting the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. Offers tools for job searching, recruiting, content sharing, and business networking. | Sunnyvale, US | Acquired | $103M | |
| 10 | Twitch | Live streaming platform for gamers and creators, originally launched as Justin.tv in 2007. Spun off its gaming vertical as Twitch.tv in June 2011, becoming the world's leading live video platform for gaming content before Amazon's acquisition. | San Francisco, US | Acquired | $43M |
| 11 | Nectar Social | Palo Alto-based agentic AI operating system for modern marketing teams. Unifies social intelligence, community management, creator workflows, and conversational commerce. Powers 10M+ conversations per week, has attributed $100M in revenue back to social channels for customers. Official data partnerships across Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, and X. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $41M |
| 12 | Sekai | Bay Area-based consumer AI app turning text prompts into playable mini-apps, utilities, and games plus a remix feed. Over 15M mini-apps created, 200K per day, over one hour daily session time. Founded 2024 by 4th-time founder Lucky Zhang. | San Francisco, USA | Private | $26M |
| 13 | 500px | 500px was an online photography community and marketplace where photographers discovered, shared, bought, and sold their work. Serving millions of creatives across 195 countries, the platform became one of the most popular alternatives to Flickr before being acquired by Visual China Group in 2018. The company was founded in Toronto by Oleg Gutsol and Evgeny Tchebotarev. | Toronto, Canada | Acquired | $22M |
| 14 | OMGPop | Social gaming company best known for Draw Something, a viral mobile drawing game that reached 50M downloads in 50 days and was downloaded over 200M times. Originally launched as iminlikewithyou in 2006, combining social networking with Flash-based browser games. Produced 37 games on a real-time multiplayer platform. Acquired by Zynga for $180M ($210M with earnout) in March 2012, then shut down in June 2013. | New York, United States | Acquired | $17M |
| 15 | District | AI-powered commerce platform enabling independent sellers and creators to launch and grow community-driven marketplaces with integrated live video, chat, and payments. 1,000+ businesses onboarded over three years. Case studies include NikNax ($5M GMV in 2025) and Stacked Golf ($150K/week). | Los Angeles, United States | Private | $15M |
| 16 | YouTube | Online video-sharing platform that enables users to upload, share, and discover video content. Founded by three former PayPal employees, it became the internet's premier destination for user-generated video before being acquired by Google in 2006. | San Bruno, US | Acquired | $12M |
| 17 | Bumble | Women-first dating and social networking app that empowers women to make the first move. Expanded into friendship (Bumble BFF) and professional networking (Bumble Bizz), becoming a leading platform in the online dating space. | Austin, United States | Public | $10M |
| 18 | Shapes | San Francisco social chat app integrating AI characters into shared human group conversations. Has 400K+ monthly active users with thousands spending 2-4 hours per day in-app, addressing the AI psychosis problem by keeping AI grounded in real friend networks. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $8M |