🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 101 Top English Social Startups & Firms

August 14, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best English Social companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Social 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 English Social Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

BBC

BBC

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BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.

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The social network powering independent traders and investors

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Culture Trip

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Culture Trip is a travel e-commerce brand with content at its core

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Minute Media

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Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.

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V-Nova

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Next-generation video and image compression that works today

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Lumen

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Lumen is an app-only dating platform for over 50s.

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Takumi

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Takumi is a platform that gives large brands and advertising agencies access to branded influencer creative at scale.

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GSMA

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The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.

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SuperAwesome

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SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.

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Disciple Media

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Disciple helps you host, engage and monetise your community on your terms. Create your own community app and gather your customers.

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busuu

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busuu is one of the world’s leading mobile apps for language learning – we break down language barriers!

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M&C Saatchi

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M&C Saatchi is founded on the principle of Brutal Simplicity.

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Logically

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Logically develops the latest in AI technologies to combat information overload, misinformation, fake news & other types of harmful content.

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Sofar Sounds

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Sofar Sounds is a global community hosting curated, secret performances in more than 400 cities around the world.

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Croud

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Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics

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Future Planet Capital

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Future Planet is the impact-led, global VC firm built to invest in growth companies from the world’s top universities

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Provenance

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Provenance is a leading platform for supply chain and impact transparency

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Invstr

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Invstr is a fintech app empowering investors to invest with commission-free investing and banking.

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Amity

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Amity powers in-app social experiences, helping developers to easily add pre-built social features to any app with a few lines of code.

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Social Chain

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Social Chain a social media marketing agency.

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Echobox

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Echobox is the leading AI-driven social media platform for publishers.

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Triptease

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Triptease is a travel SaaS company that empowers hotels to recapture guest relationships and increase direct bookings.

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Guild

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Guild is a messaging app for professional groups, networks & communities. As easy as WhatsApp but no ads, private and designed for business.

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LoveCrafts

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LoveCrafts is a start-up that builds social marketplaces for the crafts sector.

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Mirthy

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Community and activities platform for over-60s

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Admix

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Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising

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Unruly

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Unruly is an advertising technology company that gets videos watched, tracked, and shared across the Open Web.

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WeWALK

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WeWALK is a startup developing a smart cane for the visually-impaired.

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Second Home

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Second Home owns and operates an office space for entrepreneurs and creative businesses.

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Vidsy

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Vidsy helps global brands create effective video ads, efficiently and consistently across digital.

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REPX

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Committed to building a global Reputation Marketplace through the marketing and sale of innovative retail and financial products

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Uhive

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Uhive is a social network that lets users socialize, interact, and find people across the world while earning its own digital currency.

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Claro Money

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Claro is a digital financial coach that empowers you to make smarter financial decisions every day.

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Cinesite

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Cinesite is one of the largest and most creative visual effects companies in the world.

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ITV

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ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.

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Pynk

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Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.

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SmartFocus

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SmartFocus empowers you to deliver omni-channel marketing campaigns with true personalization.

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ContentCal

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B2B SaaS Content Marketing Platform

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The Dots

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The professional network for people who don’t wear suits to work.

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Mediatonic Games

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Mediatonic develops and publishes games for digital platforms such as smartphones, PCs and consoles.

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Mana

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Share what you love with 1:1 sessions and live classes. Inspire dedicated followers who fund your work.

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FanCircles

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Reach followers and fans through your own fan club platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities

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ASOS

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Asos is an online platform engaged in the retail of fashion and beauty products for men and women.

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Planet N Group of Companies

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Planet N Group is an emerging markets focused high-tech and social impact investment firm dedicated to development through digitization

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Mush

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Mush is an online social platform that enables mothers to meet other mothers with kids the same age.

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Codec

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We help brands to discover and tap in to the pockets of culture that drive growth. Powered by award-winning AI.

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Proactive

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Proactive is an international news and media organization providing coverage of companies in the small to mid-capitalization range.

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miPic

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An end to end Print platform enabling creatives to turn their Instagram feeds into money making businesses without lifting a finger.

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Newsflare

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Newsflare is an online marketplace for user generated video content.

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Tailify

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Tailify provides a one-stop-shop for Influencers & Brands by offering high technological solutions.

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Audiense

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Audiense is a develops delivering unique consumer insight and engagement capabilities to many of the world’s biggest brands and agencies.

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Founders Pledge

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Founders Pledge is a global community of entrepreneurs finding and funding solution’s to the world’s most pressing problems.

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TalkLife

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The Social Network That Saves Lives

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Third Space Learning

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Third Space aims to help every student access great quality online tuition to help them succeed in, and love, their learning

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Financial Times

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The Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data and analysis for the global business community.

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SoPost

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SoPost helps brands drive product sampling online, better than it has ever been done before.

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Her

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Her is a dating application for lesbians, bisexual and bi-curious women, allowing users to connect with each other and their community.

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Coniq

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Coniq is the Total Customer Engagement Company.

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Dexerto

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Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.

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ATG Media

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ATG Media offers an online portal that enables users to browse catalogues for fine art, antique and collectable auctions.

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Ayima

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Ayima is a specialist Search consultancy focused on ROI, data analysis and brand development.

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Edge

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The fastest, smartest, easiest influencer management platform.

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Influencer

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Word Of Mouth Redefined.® Run by Creators, for Creators.

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Cryptograph

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One-of-a-kind digital collectibles from your favourite icons and artists that raise money for charity forever, all secured by blockchain.

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Bookmate

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Bookmate is mobile story-on-the-go subscription service providing convenient access to ebooks, audiobooks and other long-form content

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RealSport

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RealSport gives the best fans in the world a voice on the sports they love. 0% clickbait. 0% fake news. 0% pop-ups. 100% original.

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Lobster

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Lobster is a platform which enables brands, agencies and the media to licence visual content directly from social media users.

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Cornerstone

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Cornerstone is a subscription service for men’s toiletries.

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The Ocean Bottle

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Social enterprise tackling ocean-bound plastic

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Youth Business International

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Youth Business International helps young people to start and grow their own business and create employment.

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StoryTerrace

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StoryTerrace helps people to capture their life story using professional writers and software.

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Nuji

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Nuji is a marketplace to discover the Internet’s best fashion and lifestyle products.

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Car Throttle

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Car Throttle is the internet’s fastest growing car community.

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Sideways 6

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Sideways 6 is a platform helping organisations including british airways and sainsbury’s to harness the innovative ideas of their employees.

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Sportlobster

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Sportlobster was born out of the frustration that sports fans face in having to visit multiple sites or download multiple apps.

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Howbout

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The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.

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AlphaSwap

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AlphaSwap is an investment technology platform, bundling its analyst community’s best stock ideas into Data-as-a-Service

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Full Fact

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Full Fact is the UK’s independent fact-checking charity

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inploi

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inploi is the future of talent engagement and job discovery.

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MNFST

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Our mission is to help people realise, develop and monetise all their digital profiles.

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Rise Art

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Rise Art enables users to discover and access original art works from galleries and museums.

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BeeLiked Media Ltd

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An interactive content platform for brands to engage their digital audience, build first-party data and drive sales

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Social Value Portal

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Social Value Portal is a on-line solution that allows organisations to measure and manage the contribution.

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EXTREME

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Brand led entertainment company with over 20 million connected fans, operating accross adventure parks, events, media and mobile network.

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Ideal Flatmate

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Ideal Flatmate is the first UK website dedicated to helping its users find the right flatmates.

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Planable

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Planable is the command centre for social media teams to work together on content.

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SonicJobs

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#1 blue-collar career app, supporting candidates through their job-seeking journey and helping them build their future.

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Monterosa Productions

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Monterosa is the global leader in audience interaction technology and commerce

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Miappi

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Miappi helps brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights and to distribute to marketing channels and ecommerce.

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OZ, US

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A leading tech company energizing live events and bringing communities together through out of this world experiences.

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Globechain

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Globechain is a B2B reuse marketplace connecting businesses to charities, creating social impact data.

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NOT JUST A LABEL

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NOT JUST A LABEL (NJAL) IS THE WORLD’S LEADING DESIGNER PLATFORM FOR SHOWCASING AND NURTURING TODAY’S PIONEERS IN CONTEMPORARY FASHION

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Kin

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Kin is an app that provides family members with secure personal media.

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Chatterbox

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Smart online language learning for professionals, powered by refugees.

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Lightful

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A developing social media and tech tools for the charity sector startup.

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Driftrock

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Driftrock helps brands find their audience online, using data from around the web to power better targeted, more timely Social Media Ads.

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Linkdex

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Linkdex offers a SaaS-based platform unifying search, social, PR and content channels.

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Taggstar

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Real-time social proof message expert for enterprise eCommerce | Conversion uplift by up to 12% | Shop Direct, N Brown, TUI, Missguided use.

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BUA FIT

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A web platform to connect fitness professionals and consumers for outdoor and online classes in a social way.

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Peanut

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Peanut is an online platform that provides a safe space for women to connect across fertility and motherhood.

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60 Decibels

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60 Decibels is a a separate social enterprise.

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