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This article showcases our top picks for the best New York City based Social Network companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Social Network industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top New York City Social Network Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Triller
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Triller is an AI-powered music video app that enables anyone to make professional videos, effortlessly.
Foursquare
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Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Tornado
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Nvstr is now Tornado! Backed by Marc Lore, Alex Rodriguez & Dave Portnoy. Advancing our mission of financial wellness.
Tumblr
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Tumblr, a microblogging platform and social networking website, enables users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.
Finary
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Finary is an investing social platform where you can talk about investments with friends and make trades on the market.
Chief
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Chief, the private leadership network, was built to connect and support powerful women.
Mashable
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Mashable is a media company for the connected generation and voice of digital culture.
The Wing
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The Wing is a network of work and community spaces designed for women.
Schoology
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Schoology provides a user-centric learning management system that makes it easy to create and share academic content.
Glitch
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Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.
Creatively
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Creatively connects the creative community through best-in-class portfolios, collaborative features, and opportunities around the globe.
Swivel
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Swivel creates a mobile app that helps black women find the perfect hairdresser.
Axial Networks
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Axial is a provider of technology-enabled applications used to discreetly connect the participants in the private capital markets.
Digg
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Digg Inc. operates a website that enables its users to find, read, and share the most interesting and talked about stories on the internet.
Homeis
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Homeis develops a software platform that builds a better Internet for immigrants.
Happiest Community
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Global Community + Lifestyle Brand on a mission to ‘Make Humanity Happy’™. Our Community and Products sow & grow happiness
EME
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EME is a community-based, social live streaming app for finding like-minded friends and partners.
Fatherly
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Fatherly operates as a digital media brand for dads.
Speakap
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Speakap is a secure and private platform that enables organisations of all sizes to reach and engage with their front-line employees
Adventurely
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Meetup app for digital nomads, solo travelers & local adventure seekers to share experiences
Timehop
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Timehop is your throwback thursday for every day of the week. Timehop also offers Nimbus, a mobile, in-app header bidding solution.
Itsme
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Itsme is a mobile app that creates high fidelity Avatars and Environments that enables social networking with digital avatars.
Trusted Insight
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Trusted Insight is an LP network that provides institutional investors with curated news, jobs, rankings, events, and a forum.
Grouper
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Grouper is a social club connecting groups of people in the U.S. cities and organizing parties to meet other groups.
SummitSync
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Marketing software that helps companies with prospect discovery, meeting management, and ROI tracking at every event you attend or sponsor.
Insense
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Insense is a data-driven creative platform helping brands to get mobile-first video content from a network of 35,000 video creators
beBee
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BeBee is an application that provides a social network and avenue of personal branding for small companies.
HearMeOut
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HearMeOut is a free social app available on IOS and Android that brings back the importance of audio and brings it back to the social arena.
UPJAUNT
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Travelers, professionals and businesses discover and connect around mutual interests and stories.
Spitball
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Built by students for students, Spitball is a revolutionary study platform that allows college students to study collaboratively.
Breaking Media
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Breaking Media is a network of websites and other services that provides information and related services for business communities.
EkChat, Inc.
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E = Social + Chat + Pay. A social network. A messaging platform. A universal payments system.
SaferVPN
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SaferVPN is a premium VPN service that protects users’ privacy and security, while enabling access to content from anywhere in the world.
DivorceForce
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DivorceForce is an online community & marketplace which educates, connects, and empowers people affected by divorce.
PeerStream
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PeerStream is a software innovator that develops security and privacy solutions for video, voice, and data communication applications.
Claim it!
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Claim it is a social marketplace app with a fun way to buy, sell and give away anything — anywhere.
Taste
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Ratings, reviews, and recommendations based on your taste.
Linkstorm
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Linkstorm is an advertising technology company that enables brands to drive ad performance by making their ads more useful to customers.
Cryptocurrency Research Group
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The Cryptocurrency Research Group is the first formal cross-disciplinary research network.
DownToDash
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DownToDash is an activity curator to meet like-minded people (now virtually too).
The Network
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The Network a business social network built upon news, and integrated into many publications.
Advocate
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Advocate creates an always-on political environment where campaigns and citizens interact.
Membit Inc.
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Patented location based Augmented Reality featuring Human Positioning System social/mobile AR for the masses
Scutify
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Scutify is a social network for the financial industry.
Finch Living
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Finch Living offers scalable solution for community building and improved experience in residential buildings across the US.
AppMyDay
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AppMyDay operates an online social platform for event and photo-sharing.
Selfie
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Selfie is a social networking site that allows the users to talk face-to-face and publicly or privately with other users.
Caster
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Caster provides users with the ability to streamline the entire event planning process for all their social events.
Wolf+Friends
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The Community + Lifestyle App For Moms Raising Children With Special Needs
Tag (Acquired)
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Tag is your digital passport. (Acquired 2015)
OkCupid
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OkCupid is an online dating website that uses quizzes and multiple-choice questions to find a match for the user.
CalReply
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CalReply is a platform that enables marketers to create a dynamic and real-time relationship with native smartphone calendars.
Wedge Buster
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Wedge Buster is a gaming company specializing in sports gaming and fantasy sports on social networks and mobile platforms.
Upfront Media Group
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Upfront Media Group offers a premium social network for influencers and their fans to share content.
bitgab
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bitgab is an educational social network that teaches languages through a combination of video content, group classes, and 1-on-1 tutoring
Veterati
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Veterati is a professional networking platform that matches American veterans with committed mentors to help them find employment
JustFix.nyc
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JustFix.nyc co-creates tools with tenants, organizers, and legal advocates to fight displacement and achieve stable, healthy housing for all.
ARTDEX
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ARTDEX offers a web and mobile-based social art collection management platform for artists, dealers, art professionals, and organizations
iHeartRadio
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iHeartRadio is a digital radio service that enables its users to listen to their favorite live stations or create custom stations.
MyFolk
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MyFolk is a social buying app based in New York, New York.
Snazzy Media Group INC
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Snazzy is a Social Networking & an E/M-Commerce Provider of Lifestyle Information about any Celebrity, Brand or Events to all its Fans.
Rise
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Rise is a professional networking site that allows companies to proactively build relationships with candidates and customers.
Snoox
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Snoox is a social recommendations platform enabling users to post and discover recommendations on anything.
Spins.FM
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Spins.FM connects social media with radio stations and enables listeners to interact with radio stations via social media.
Hublished
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Hublished is a social network for brands to share webinars and eBooks in building a following and establishing their expertise.
CafeMom
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CafeMom is social networking site targeted at mothers and mothers-to-be offering a host of contents from pregnancy, relationships and more.
Alphachannel
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Alphachannel connects brand marketers with a network of trusted digital studios and technologists for marketing and content projects.
Anastasia Date
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Anastasia Date is an online dating service that connects users with compatible women from around the world.
Spintura
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Spintura is a crypto-reward driven social network and built-in marketplace.
Anonygo, Inc.
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Anonygo is an anonymous social network that allows people to share photos and text in real time without revealing their identities.
Cnekt
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Cnekt is a global social networking site that allows users to connect with one another based on preferences and location in real time.
Human’s Best Friend
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Human’s Best Friend is a shareable experience for dogs and the humans who love them.
Ology Media
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Ology Media is a social discovery and networking site for users to share content and conversations around their interests and passions.
Vuukle
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Vuukle drives revenue through engagement by offering comments, reactions, sharebar & content re-circulation coupled with real-time analytics
Yup
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Crypto social network that rewards and empowers curators
DateSalad
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At DateSalad, we simply believe in people. Furthermore, we believe in people being who and as they are. We don’t dare to assume.
Skycheckin
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Skycheckin, a social network for travelers, provides the users with a platform, enabling them to locate others with similar interests.
AnonymAsk
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AnonymAsk is a social online matchmaking application on Android.
Conduit
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Conduit connects operator-investors and founders building the next generation of startups around the world.
Meetsy
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Meetsy is a new kind of a social platform that enables community leaders to bring their people together.
Designqwest Platforms
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DesignQwest enables users to show-off their design eye and get recognition for their talents as design aficionados.
EXPO
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EXPO is a consumer-oriented video platform that features video product reviews submitted by community members.
Boonty
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Boonty is a developer of online casual games that focus on enhancing social interactions.
VOW
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One Workspace: The All-in-One Collaboration Suite for Events, Meetings and Hospitality.
Postling
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Postling is a social market service provider that allows users to publish on multiple networking sites through one centralized location.
Alba
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The first purpose-built platform for forming strategic, joint-venture, commercial real estate relationships. For best-in-class institutions.
Screenr
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Screenr offers a web-based screen recorder that enables users to create and share their screencasts around the web.
Poosh
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Poosh is a habit-changing platform developed out of the most advanced behavioral science techniques for changing behavior.
Gala
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Gala is a content sharing platform that allows creatives to monetize via a digital marketplace.
EVE
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A next-gen matchmaking app that harnesses the power of its platform to provide fashion brands w/ real-time insights on customer preferences.
The Simple
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Simple is a private social network for organizations, enabling company members to communicate in real time.
Phovi
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Phovi is a Social Platform that connects users through Multiplayer Games, Communities, and Offline Experiences.
