Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best New York City based Social Media companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Social Media 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 Media Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Sprinklr
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Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Gloat
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Gloat is an internal talent marketplace that allows people to be matched to internal career opportunities.
Giphy
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Giphy is an online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover GIFs.
Yotpo
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Yotpo is an eCommerce marketing platform that helps brands accelerate their direct-to-consumer growth.
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.
VidMob
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VidMob is a video content creation network and platform where brands can create digital video ads with expert teams.
Hinge
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Hinge is a social discovery network helping users meet new people through an application.
Some Spider Studios
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Some Spider Studios is a media & entertainment company.
Unified
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Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Mashable
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Mashable is a media company for the connected generation and voice of digital culture.
Bitly
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Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels.
Remesh
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Remesh offers an AI-powered platform that enables users to have live conversations with their customers at scale.
Fancy
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Fancy curates the most innovative fashion, accessories, art and gadgets from emerging brands and artists across the globe.
Co–Star
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Co–Star is a real-time horoscopes bringing astrology into the 21st century.
Plated
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Plated home-delivers 30-minute gourmet recipes and ingredients.
Wibbitz
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Wibbitz is an automated video creation company that empowers any team to produce professional short-form video.
Percolate
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Percolate is a content marketing platform offering solutions to introduce visibility into the marketing process.
eMarketer
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eMarketer enables customers to understand trends, consumer behavior and get needed data and insights to succeed in today’s digital economy.
Trusting Social Co.
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Trusting Social builds the next generation of credit score based on social data, to make lending faster, cheaper and friendlier.
Promo.com
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Promo.com is the leading video creation platform for businesses and agencies.
Airtime
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A live social space where people build communities around shared interests through video, audio, and chat.
Upfluence
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Upfluence is a smarter influencer marketing platform that helps brands and agencies scaling influencer marketing worldwide.
Meetup
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Meetup brings people together in thousands of cities to do more of what they want to do in life.
Whistle
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Whistle is a global sports and entertainment company that creates, curates, and distributes positive brand safe original content.
The Players’ Tribune
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The Players’ Tribune is a content and technology platform developed by athletes for athletes to connect them with fans through storytelling.
Clinch
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Clinch delivers hyper-personalized creative experiences and consumer intelligence across all channels
YouNow
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YouNow is the world’s first live social network, empowering users to broadcast themselves from anywhere in real time.
Apester
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Apester believes that the evolution of digital storytelling revolves around integrating the reader’s voice into the content.
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Conversocial is a Customer Experience Platform for Messaging Channels.
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.
Fairygodboss
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Fairygodboss is the largest career community for women. Free for women, we help employers recruit and hire women.
Tinuiti
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Tinuiti is a data-driven digital marketing agency specializing in full-service online marketing.
RebelMouse
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Create incredible digital growth by breaking from the conventional approach of legacy web technology on the always-modern SaaS CMS.
EME
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EME is a community-based, social live streaming app for finding like-minded friends and partners.
Muze
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Muze is a creative messaging app that expands how users can communicate.
IVY
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IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Superfly
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Superfly is an entertainment company and creative agency with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Chicago.
Yodle
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Yodel is an all-in-one local internet marketing & advertising solution for small businesses.
BIScience
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BIScience provides business intelligence solutions for the online media industry.
Lex
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Lex is a text-based social app for women, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary.
Fatherly
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Fatherly operates as a digital media brand for dads.
Splacer
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Splacer is an online platform for people to instantly list, discover, and book short-term spaces to create unique event experiences.
Synthesio, an Ipsos Company
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Synthesio is a global Leader in the latest report on Social Listening Platforms published by an independent research firm.
Canvs
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Canvs AI is a platform for automating emotional insights from your social commentary and open-ended text.
ViewLift
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An End to End Solution For Content Distribution and Monetization
Status Money
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Status Money is a social personal finance app that enables people to compare finances and crowdsource advice from peers.
turntable.fm
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Turntable.fm brings the social value of music to the digital music experience by letting people experience and discover music together.
Wishi
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Wishi operator of an online community of stylists designed to give people confidence of professional styling.
ReKTGlobal
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ReKTGlobal is a business authority in e-sports and competitive gaming.
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
Influenster
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Influenster is a digital destination where millions of consumers research and review products and where brands can connect with shoppers.
Locals
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Locals makes it simple for creators to start a subscription based community and make money directly from their supports.
SocialFlow
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SocialFlow is a social distribution and monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies.
Scroll
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Scroll is creating a sustainable experience that puts amazing content in front of engaged users without all the noise.
IMGN Media
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IMGN is a tech-media company specialized in producing and programming social content for Gen Z audiences.
PowerToFly
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PowerToFly is a global platform dedicated to more diversity, inclusion, and transparency at work via virtual events and remote jobs.
Tracx
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Tracx is a cloud-based social media management system providing business analytics solutions through the social web.
Keybase
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Keybase offers end-to-end encrypted chat, file-sharing, and code-hosting all based on a cryptographic platform.
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.
PeekYou
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PeekYou is a people search engine that allows its users to find and contact individuals online.
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Shareablee is an online platform offering audience intelligence, competitive benchmarking, and insights for social media.
Urban FT Group, Inc.
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Urban FT helps FIs deliver exceptional customer-driven digital experiences by providing the industry’s first and most capable FinTech Core.
Cobble
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Cobble develops a decision-making app that curates date night plans for couples.
Jumprope
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Jumprope is a platform where users can create, discover, and share how-to videos and tutorials.
Segovia
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Segovia is a financial technology company making it easy for organizations to pay anyone, anytime, anywhere in the emerging markets.
Chatdesk
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Chatdesk helps companies deliver sales and customer care in social and messaging apps.
Neon Music Network NMN TRENDS
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Neon Music Network is a social networking platform for users to exchange music.
Buddy Media
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Buddy Media is a social media marketing platform, helps companies build connections and maintain relationships with customers.
Transmit.Live
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The first ever live video marketplace for large scale broadcasters and advertisers.
Allstar
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Allstar develops technology that enables gamers to effortlessly capture, personalize, and share their greatest gaming moments.
Greatist
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Greatist is a next-gen health media company for healthy-minded millennials.
A Plus
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A Plus strives to deliver positive journalism to readers with the intention of making a meaningful difference in the world.
SocialMeep
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SocialMeep builds automatic growth and marketing tools for Instagram.
CoFoundersLab
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CoFoundersLab is the largest network of entrepreneurs on the Internet
Upworthy
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Upworthy is on a mission to change what the world pays attention to.
Critical Mention
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Critical Mention provides the most comprehensive Web-based real time broadcast monitoring service and is changing the way corporate
Dow Jones
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Dow Jones is a news and business information provider that delivers content to consumers and organizations via newspapers and more.
Stocktwits
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Stocktwits is a real-time financial communications platform for the financial and investing community.
Minti
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Minti helps creators auto-mint social posts as non-fungible tokens.
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.
Graphika
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Graphika identifies social communities and influencers within them, mapping spheres of influence on topics & content you care about most.
Standard Media Index
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SMI is an information services company providing global media agency expenditure data for all major media and product categories.
Streamroot
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Next-generation peer-to-peer video content delivery.
Swipecast
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The Discovery and Booking Platform for Today’s Image Makers.
Unmetric
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The only Social Media Intelligence Platform Focused on Brands.
Trading.TV
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The world’s first social live stream and immersive chat platform for traders and financial content creators.
Converseon.AI
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Converseon.AI Provides Human-Centered MLaaS Solutions for Social and VoC Data and Insights to Leading Consumer-centric Brands
Dovetale
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Dovetale helps e-commerce stores recruit, manage, & grow their sales with communities of people who love their products.
Romio
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Romio let’s you book “trusted” local services (Housekeeper, Runner, Dog Walker…) through recommendations from local experts and friends
Elite Daily
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Elite Daily is the premier news platform for and by millennials, the leading source for news and entertainment for the connected generation.
Kinetic Social
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Kinetic’s mission is to make every social encounter between a brand and their target audience, relevant, engaging and impactful.
CoVenture Holding Company LLC
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CoVenture provides equity and/or debt financing to tech-enabled companies in areas such as financial services, media, and platform economies
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
OpenWeb
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OpenWeb (formerly Spot.IM) is on a mission to democratize and improve conversations online.
Stoyo
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Stoyo develops a social video advertisement creation platform to facilitate data-driven advertisement creation.
Livestream
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Livestream offers event owners a set of hardware and software tools to share their events with an online audience.
Distractify
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Distractify creates and covers what’s trending on the internet.
uSTADIUM
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Helping superfan creators distribute and monetize their content, while providing superfan consumers with the best UGC.
Hanzo
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Hanzo is the world leader in the legally defensible capture, preservation, and analysis of web content and eDiscovery.
