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

August 14, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best English 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

Top English Social Network Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

V-Nova

V-Nova

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Next-generation video and image compression that works today

Lumen

Lumen

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

Lumen

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.

Lumen

Invstr

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

Lumen

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.

Lumen

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.

Lumen

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.

Lumen

The Dots

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

Lumen

FanCircles

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

Lumen

Mush

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

Lumen

TalkLife

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The Social Network That Saves Lives

Lumen

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.

Lumen

StoryTerrace

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

Lumen

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.

Lumen

AlphaSwap

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

Lumen

MNFST

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

Lumen

Ideal Flatmate

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

Lumen

Kin

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

Lumen

Peanut

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

Lumen

WorkClub

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WorkClub is a B2B SaaS platform for on-demand workspaces and meeting rooms.

Lumen

BYP Network

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BYP Network provides a social network, professional development blogs, leadership podcasts, and events as well as newsletters.

Lumen

Soundclub

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Disrupting the discovery of live music experiences

Lumen

Football Fan

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Football Fan is an innovative fan-driven app that is changing the way billions of global fans engage using AI, Robotics & Blockchain

Lumen

Little Black Door

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Little Black Door is an app that enables its users to upload, see, style and share their wardrobes with friends and their fashion community

Lumen

Artscapy

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Artscapy is an online art community with a focus on digital transformation and democratization of the art world.

Lumen

Messly

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Messly is a SaaS, Professional Network that helps doctors find their next role in healthcare.

Lumen

Chirp Birding

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Chirp Birding, Connecting the World’s Birders

Lumen

Crowdholding

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Crowdholding connects the crowd with entrepreneurs, allowing you to give feedback and ideas for future revenue.

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The Square

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The Square is an award winning workforce management platform & hiring marketplace for construction businesses.

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Unet

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Unet helps businesses stay in touch with customers.

Lumen

Qemistry

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Qemistry describes themselves as TikTok-meets-Tinder. A dating app made up of videos, particularly appealing to Gen Z and Millennials.

Lumen

Grafter

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The free digital service for connecting businesses with people looking for temporary work

Lumen

Blind Cupid

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Blind Cupid is a matchmaking app that uses systematic philosophy and artificial intelligence to match users based on their values.

Lumen

teaglo

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teaglo is a social network that gives teachers complete control over their personal brand, resources, professional development, and careers.

Lumen

Recruitd

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A careers network that works for everyone. Professionals, recruitment agencies, employers: welcome to your new home.

Lumen

Follow Alice

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We make adventure travel a truly holistic and personal client experience by blending technology with human interaction.

Lumen

Bundll

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Bundll is a space to openly share what you’re thinking

Lumen

By Rotation

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The World’s First Social Fashion Rental App.

Lumen

TableCrowd

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TableCrowd is a real life business network that brings people together over food and drink.

Lumen

Blurrt

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Blurrt is a social analytics & content software platform allows users to collect, listen, showcase, anaylse and engage with social audience.

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blixr

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Transforming the social app through voice & helping everyone connect for real through anti-superficial, non-addictive & non-invasive algos.

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MusterPoint

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MusterPoint is an online social media management tool designed for emergency services and other public sector and organisations.

Lumen

Lemeno

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Lemeno is the world’s first instant-planning™ app where you’ll never have to waste time messaging about what to do a

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Turnpike

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Turnpike is an information Technology & Services company that connects their staff digitally to make them more successful, safe at work.

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Plurallion

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Content-driven marketplaces for emerging markets

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Lingoing

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Lingoing is a social network that provides an online market place connecting sign language professionals and deaf clients together.

Lumen

HappyGo

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HappyGo is a dating app that pairs the user on blind dates with people they share mutual friends with on Facebook.

Lumen

RE:JOIN

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RE:JOIN helps creators build a new level of relationship with their most active followers

Lumen

GLOBALDRUM

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GLOBALDRUM enables secure mobile-to-mobile social interaction for enterprises and their audiences.

Lumen

Swace

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Swace is a blockchain-based social gaming platform where users gain rewards for engaging with brands.

Lumen

Ubringg

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Ubringg is the first crowdDelivery platform that makes On Demand Delivery scalable!

Lumen

Showzee

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Showzee allows people to create & share mini stories around their interests & experiences

Lumen

Fashion Kanvas

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Fashion Kanvas is a job search & networking platform for fashion creatives.

Lumen

NEARBER

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App which tracks your position via Google Maps API and shows you everything that’s happening nearby.

Lumen

TheatreSmart

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TheatreSmart offers events online property that is focused on theater reviews, resources and ticketing.

Lumen

Whering

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Whering is an app that allows you to digitise your wardrobe, receive styling suggestions and sustainable product recommendations.

Lumen

Winstag

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Winstag is a global app for fashion, lifestyle, and new trends.

Lumen

Mumsnet

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Mumsnet is the UK’s busiest social network for parents.

Lumen

ImOff

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ImOff is a social networking mobile application that lets users coordinate their time off together.

Lumen

RankingHero

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RankingHero is a social network that provides live poker data and it enables its users to chat and discover targeted services.

Lumen

Deseeo

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Deseeo is the World Wide Altruism Network, the first free gamified social network where all users can make their wishes.

Lumen

Special Network Services

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Special Network Services, doing business as PeerIndex, is a web technology company focused on algorithmically mapping out the social web.

Lumen

LoveThis

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LoveThis is an online black book of recommendations from friends and experts.

Lumen

Hustlr

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Hustlr is the professional networking app for making meaningful connections based on location, interests, and goals.

Lumen

Lotto Social

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With Lotto Social you can join syndicates, manage tickets, discover exciting new ways to play and enjoy more chances to win.

Lumen

Impossible

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A new social network of giving and receiving. impossible. Do good. Feel good.

Lumen

Voisey

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Voisey is an app that connects singers, songwriters, artists, and producers through collaborative songwriting. Record, publish, and share.

Lumen

We Are Social

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We are Social is a social network that provides and facilitates social thinking and collaboration.

Lumen

Glipho

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SquareHub is a private family network that facilitates coordination and communication.

Lumen

Somymu Limited

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SOMYMU: So Make Your Mind Up. 3D Insights for Opinions, Feedback, Decisions and more.

Lumen

Wondr Medical

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Wondr Medical is the platform for medical discovery, built around health care professionals.

Lumen

hiyalife

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Hiyalife is an app that allows users to organize their memories, build their life stories, and rediscover and share them.

Lumen

treekele

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A person can grow and reach success & happiness this balance can be achieved by personal development in 4 areas soul, mind, body, wealth.

Lumen

Blasting News

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Blasting News is the leading social news publisher. Where every voice counts.

Lumen

XbyMe

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Next generation digital marketing platform – Social Capital Exchange

Lumen

Primeflow

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Primeflow helps companies partner up with high-profile ambassadors and their audiences, for the purpose of sourcing talent and business.

Lumen

Wamba

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Wamba is a social dating network that enables users to meet, chat and interact with new people online.

Lumen

Heedful

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Heedful uses law enforcement and real time community data, as a preventative measure against vehicle crime

Lumen

Dopplr

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Dopplr is a social networking service enabling frequent travelers to create itineraries of their travel plans and share them with friends.

Lumen

edworking

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Moving remote work into the next level

Lumen

Notify.me

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Notify.me allows users to get immediate updates whenever a keyword they have specified pops up in their blogs or social networks.

Lumen

Firebox.com

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Firebox.com is an e-commerce platform that offers customized and corporate gifts.

Lumen

Compete Impossible

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Compete Impossible’s mission is to convert activity into rewards from independent sustainable marketplace.

Echofide

Eckofide

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Eckofide is the world’s first social content-streaming service – that simplifies booking creatives.

Lumen

NetScientific

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NetScientific is a life sciences and sustainability technology investment and commercialization group.

Lumen

Movemeback

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Movemeback is the community that connecting talented professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs.

Lumen

Shub.one

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Shub.one is a business networking platform that allows professionals to network, promote, expand, and grow their business or careers.

Lumen

Massif Central

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Massif Central creates gallery-quality, bespoke info-graphic artworks celebrating great achievements.

Lumen

KindLink

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Online platform for businesses to manage and engage with employees through their social responsibility

Lumen

FriendsAbroad

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FriendsAbroad is a multi-lingual social network for users across the globe.

Lumen

Coo Social Network

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Coo is a private social network for parents of school going children.

Lumen

Hive App

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Hive App is a mobile app that connects groups with photo collections.

Lumen

Zealous

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Matching creative talent with opportunity

Lumen

Art Mavens Ltd

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Art Mavens is the global hub and marketplace for art professionals and organisations to connect, collaborate and transact.

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Gapyear.com

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A niche social network for backpackers and gap year travellers, containing trip advice, travel inspiration, jobs and volunteering ideas

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ONE

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ONE is a social networking platform that unifies all your social media accounts into ONE profile for you to share and connect.

Lumen

iLook

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iLook is a new type of professional social networking platform for employed, job seekers, recruiters, students and business people.

Lumen

Arcade Analytics

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Graph Visualization Tool

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Cypher App

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Cypher App is a peer to peer social network platform.

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Bragster

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Bragster is a global social networking and video sharing website where users dare each other to perform stunts and tasks.

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Zappel

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Zappel is a mobile app that spontaneously connects the humans via hyperlocal informal events (known as Zappels).

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