Mark Anderson
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
Top English Social Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
BBC
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BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
TradingView
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The social network powering independent traders and investors
Culture Trip
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Culture Trip is a travel e-commerce brand with content at its core
Minute Media
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Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.
V-Nova
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Next-generation video and image compression that works today
Takumi
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Takumi is a platform that gives large brands and advertising agencies access to branded influencer creative at scale.
GSMA
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The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
SuperAwesome
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SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
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.
busuu
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busuu is one of the world’s leading mobile apps for language learning – we break down language barriers!
M&C Saatchi
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M&C Saatchi is founded on the principle of Brutal Simplicity.
Logically
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Logically develops the latest in AI technologies to combat information overload, misinformation, fake news & other types of harmful content.
Sofar Sounds
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Sofar Sounds is a global community hosting curated, secret performances in more than 400 cities around the world.
Croud
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Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
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
Provenance
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Provenance is a leading platform for supply chain and impact transparency
Invstr
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Invstr is a fintech app empowering investors to invest with commission-free investing and banking.
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.
Social Chain
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Social Chain a social media marketing agency.
Echobox
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Echobox is the leading AI-driven social media platform for publishers.
Triptease
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Triptease is a travel SaaS company that empowers hotels to recapture guest relationships and increase direct bookings.
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.
LoveCrafts
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LoveCrafts is a start-up that builds social marketplaces for the crafts sector.
Admix
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Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
Unruly
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Unruly is an advertising technology company that gets videos watched, tracked, and shared across the Open Web.
WeWALK
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WeWALK is a startup developing a smart cane for the visually-impaired.
Second Home
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Second Home owns and operates an office space for entrepreneurs and creative businesses.
Vidsy
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Vidsy helps global brands create effective video ads, efficiently and consistently across digital.
REPX
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Committed to building a global Reputation Marketplace through the marketing and sale of innovative retail and financial products
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.
Claro Money
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Claro is a digital financial coach that empowers you to make smarter financial decisions every day.
Cinesite
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Cinesite is one of the largest and most creative visual effects companies in the world.
ITV
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ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
Pynk
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Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
SmartFocus
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SmartFocus empowers you to deliver omni-channel marketing campaigns with true personalization.
The Dots
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The professional network for people who don’t wear suits to work.
Mediatonic Games
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Mediatonic develops and publishes games for digital platforms such as smartphones, PCs and consoles.
Mana
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Share what you love with 1:1 sessions and live classes. Inspire dedicated followers who fund your work.
FanCircles
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Reach followers and fans through your own fan club platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities
ASOS
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Asos is an online platform engaged in the retail of fashion and beauty products for men and women.
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
Mush
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Mush is an online social platform that enables mothers to meet other mothers with kids the same age.
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.
Proactive
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Proactive is an international news and media organization providing coverage of companies in the small to mid-capitalization range.
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.
Newsflare
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Newsflare is an online marketplace for user generated video content.
Tailify
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Tailify provides a one-stop-shop for Influencers & Brands by offering high technological solutions.
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.
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.
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
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.
SoPost
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SoPost helps brands drive product sampling online, better than it has ever been done before.
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.
Dexerto
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Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.
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.
Ayima
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Ayima is a specialist Search consultancy focused on ROI, data analysis and brand development.
Edge
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The fastest, smartest, easiest influencer management platform.
Influencer
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Word Of Mouth Redefined.® Run by Creators, for Creators.
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.
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
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.
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.
Cornerstone
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Cornerstone is a subscription service for men’s toiletries.
The Ocean Bottle
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Social enterprise tackling ocean-bound plastic
Youth Business International
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Youth Business International helps young people to start and grow their own business and create employment.
StoryTerrace
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StoryTerrace helps people to capture their life story using professional writers and software.
Nuji
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Nuji is a marketplace to discover the Internet’s best fashion and lifestyle products.
Car Throttle
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Car Throttle is the internet’s fastest growing car community.
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.
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.
Howbout
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The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
AlphaSwap
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AlphaSwap is an investment technology platform, bundling its analyst community’s best stock ideas into Data-as-a-Service
Full Fact
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Full Fact is the UK’s independent fact-checking charity
inploi
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inploi is the future of talent engagement and job discovery.
MNFST
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Our mission is to help people realise, develop and monetise all their digital profiles.
Rise Art
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Rise Art enables users to discover and access original art works from galleries and museums.
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
Social Value Portal
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Social Value Portal is a on-line solution that allows organisations to measure and manage the contribution.
EXTREME
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Brand led entertainment company with over 20 million connected fans, operating accross adventure parks, events, media and mobile network.
Ideal Flatmate
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Ideal Flatmate is the first UK website dedicated to helping its users find the right flatmates.
Planable
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Planable is the command centre for social media teams to work together on content.
SonicJobs
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#1 blue-collar career app, supporting candidates through their job-seeking journey and helping them build their future.
Monterosa Productions
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Monterosa is the global leader in audience interaction technology and commerce
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.
OZ, US
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A leading tech company energizing live events and bringing communities together through out of this world experiences.
Globechain
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Globechain is a B2B reuse marketplace connecting businesses to charities, creating social impact data.
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
Kin
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Kin is an app that provides family members with secure personal media.
Chatterbox
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Smart online language learning for professionals, powered by refugees.
Lightful
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A developing social media and tech tools for the charity sector startup.
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.
Linkdex
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Linkdex offers a SaaS-based platform unifying search, social, PR and content channels.
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.
BUA FIT
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A web platform to connect fitness professionals and consumers for outdoor and online classes in a social way.
Peanut
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Peanut is an online platform that provides a safe space for women to connect across fertility and motherhood.
60 Decibels
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60 Decibels is a a separate social enterprise.
