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Best Social Platforms Companies in Amsterdam, Netherlands

The 37 best Social Platforms companies in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: GeoSentric.

37companies tracked
$30.1Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
9have raised

Ranked: Best Social Platforms companies in Amsterdam

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1GeoSentric
Social Network and LBS product developer
$13M228 mo agoDeadpooled—2007——
2Polarsteps
Mobile app to create and share travelogues
$5M92 mo agoSeries AMaximiliano Neustadt
Co-founder & CTO
2014Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceBootstrap+21—
3Solice
Developer of a blockchain-enabled VR metaverse
$4M56 mo agoSeedChristian
CEO
2021SentryNode.jsThree.js+11—
4Zeef
Online social community platform providing directory of resource on development and technology
$4M143 mo agoSeries AKlaas Joosten
Founder CEO of ZEEF.com - Curated directory
2013——
5JOIN
Social platform for cyclists to ride together
$2M32 mo agoAcquiredJim Berg
Founder & CEO
2006TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+13—
6Soulpicks
Social travel discovery platform
$2M86 mo agoSeedPascal Ontijd
Founder & CEO
2015——
7Uni-Life
App-based social platform connecting students
$497K54 mo agoSeed—2018——
8PartyWith
Location-based platform to discover people & events nearby
$120K123 mo agoSeedDan Fennessy
Founder & CEO
2015——

Top 10 Social Platforms companies in Amsterdam

#1
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2006 · 9 employees
$1.6Mraised
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JOIN is a social platform for cyclists to ride together. The platform enables users to organize cycling rides, explore routes, and connect with other cyclists. Additionally, the platform offers training sessions for users. Its mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 2.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. TEAM BOMBA JOIN) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2024Seed$1.6M
Founders & team
Jim BergFounder & CEO
Tech stack
Animate.CssCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementContact Form 7Core-JsEnvoy
#2
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2021 · 12 employees
$4.4Mraised
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Developer of a blockchain-enabled VR metaverse. It offers a cross-platform metaverse and marketplace comprising social, gaming, and crypto features. It enables users to entertain themselves with immersive experiences in a virtual world.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2022ICO$629K
  • Dec 2021Seed$4.4M
Founders & team
ChristianCEO
Investors
Three Arrows Capital, Animoca Brands, Genblock Capital, DeFiance Capital, Alameda Research, Skyvision
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle WorkspaceHttp/3Lit-Element
#3
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2014 · 50 employees
$5.1Mraised
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Polarsteps is an app-based travel log platform that uses the phone's GPS to automatically track travels & create location-based logs over a map-based GUI. Users can also upload media to the logs and share them with peers/on various social media handles. Additionally, users can maintain a collection of routes, stories, travel statistics & photos in a 'Personal Travel Book' and can further have the hard copies (with 200 GSM paper & hardcovers) shipped to them at additional charges. Its mobile app is available for iOS and Android devices.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 18k LinkedIn followers — 29.5% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public)
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2019Series A$3.4M
  • Aug 2017Angel$1.1M
  • Mar 2016Seed$555.3K
  • Nov 2014Seed—
Founders & team
Maximiliano NeustadtCo-founder & CTOClare JonesChief Executive Officer
Investors
Inkef, Silver Point Ventures, TMG, Curiosity
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesAnimate.CssApple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#4
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2018 · 16 employees
$496.6Kraised
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Provider of software solutions intended to support universities in offering all students a lively, social, and engaged student life. The company's platform helps universities and other academic institutions to manage student well-being and engagement by helping students to find events, organize communities, and host meet-ups, enabling universities to increase graduation rates, retention rates, and academic results.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 4.0% of this cohort's audience
Investors
Fundsup, DutchBasecamp
#5
Deadpooled · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2007 · 4 employees
$13.1Mraised
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GeoSentric’s GyPSii is the market-leading mobile digital lifestyle application and geo-mobility social networking platform: connecting people, places and communities across networks and devices, with patented technologies for the transfer and publishing of location based information between mobile devices. Based in Salo, Finland and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, GeoSentric operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. GeoSentric is listed on the Nordic Exchange (NASDAQ OMX: GEO1V)). GyPSii members can uniquely experience a broad range of location-specific functions and mobile lifestyle services – including user generated content, content-sharing, mobile geo-location content search and social networking, as well the ability to view it all on a map – all within a single user experience. Using GyPSii, members can access and enjoy “real-time” mobile features on their device, such as “Locating Friends” and sharing information on nearby point of interests, including places – restaurants, bars and clubs – contributed by friends and fellow GyPSii members.Geosentric went bankrupt and was shot down in 2014.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2007Series A$13.1M
Investors
Schroders
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpNginxAutoptimizeJquery Migrate
#6
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2013 · 12 employees
$3.7Mraised
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Zeef provides an online social community platform allowing people to filter and discover quality resources within development and technology niches. Users can find the most relevant links based on subject & category. Charges a commission on sales made through the links on its website.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2014Series A$1.6M
  • Apr 2014Seed$553.2K
  • Seed$830K
Founders & team
Klaas JoostenFounder CEO of ZEEF.com - Curated directory
Investors
Acrobator, MillionMonkeys
Tech stack
JavaDebianJavaserver FacesApache Http ServerOpen Graph
#7
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015 · 9 employees
$1.6Mraised
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Soulpicks is an app-based social discovery platform for travel attractions, places, and destinations. The app enables add places to their lists and share it with other users. Users can also organize their media (photos/videos) and import lists. Its mobile app is available for iOS and Android devices.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2019Angel$1.6M
Founders & team
Pascal OntijdFounder & CEO
Investors
Jasper R Hauser, Henri De Jong, Martijn Leenaers
#8
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015 · 5 employees
$120Kraised
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PartyWith is a location-based platform to discover people & events nearby. Primarily built for partying & nightlife, the platform enables users to discover events/parties & other members nearby to attend the party with. Users need to specify what sort of event they are looking for, browse through other members' profiles nearby who are up for the same activity and connect with them over chat & private messaging. Each event created has its own wall/timeline with event members able to share multimedia content on it. The app is available for download on both Android & iOS devices.

Funding rounds
  • 2016Seed$120K
Founders & team
Dan FennessyFounder & CEO
Investors
Techstars, Discoveries
#9
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2016 · 27 employees
—raised
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The roundabout is a Social Wall to put on a website or any screen of device user prefers. A Social wall harvests all social channels of the user's choice and creates a view from them for the user to easily put on their own website. The application is compatible with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube. The company's solution called the Iframe solution allows visitors to view, open and interact with the social media content directly on the user's website.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2018Seed—
Founders & team
Rogier VisserCEOStephan BosmanCo-Founder
Investors
AccelerAsia
Tech stack
WixReactGoogle CloudPolyfillLodashPriority Hints
#10
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2004
—raised
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Hyves is the social content platform which connects people with news and entertainment. User can chat with each on the platform, play games together and listen to music. As of May of 2010 Hyves had more than 10.3 million accounts. Acquired by Telegraaf Media Groep (TMG) on November 1, 2010. Hyves was founded in 2004 by Raymond Spanjar, Koen Kam and Floris Rost van Tonningen.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2008Series A—
Founders & team
Raymond SpanjarCo-Founder & CEOFloris Rost van TonningenCo-Founder & CPOKoen KamCo-Founder
Investors
Endeit Capital
Tech stack
Google CloudOnetrustHstsGoogle Cloud CdnCloudflareRss

Funding & investor landscape

$30.1Mtotal disclosed funding
8companies funded
12disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Techstars2 rounds
AccelerAsia1 rounds
Acrobator1 rounds
Alameda Research1 rounds
Alpha Ventures1 rounds
Animoca Brands1 rounds
CMS Holdings1 rounds
Candy Ventures1 rounds
Capital S1 rounds
Curiosity1 rounds

Notable founders

Jim Berg
Founder & CEO · JOIN
Christian
CEO · Solice
Maximiliano Neustadt
Co-founder & CTO · Polarsteps
Clare Jones
Chief Executive Officer · Polarsteps
Klaas Joosten
Founder CEO of ZEEF.com - Curated directory · Zeef
Pascal Ontijd
Founder & CEO · Soulpicks
Dan Fennessy
Founder & CEO · PartyWith
Rogier Visser
CEO · Roundabout
Stephan Bosman
Co-Founder · Roundabout
Raymond Spanjar
Co-Founder & CEO · Hyves
Floris Rost van Tonningen
Co-Founder & CPO · Hyves
Prism market signals · Netherlands · country-scoped Prism corpus, 29,456 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Social Platforms coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Social Platforms companies are there in Amsterdam, Netherlands?
Radar tracks 37 indexable Social Platforms companies headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Social Platforms companies in Amsterdam, Netherlands?
The Social Platforms companies in Amsterdam, Netherlands on this list have raised a combined $30.1M in disclosed equity funding across 8 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Social Platforms company in Amsterdam, Netherlands?
GeoSentric is the highest-funded Social Platforms company in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with $13.1M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Social Platforms companies in Amsterdam, Netherlands are funded?
8 of the 37 Social Platforms companies in Amsterdam, Netherlands on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Social Platforms unicorns are there in Amsterdam, Netherlands?
None of the Social Platforms companies in Amsterdam, Netherlands on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Amsterdam, Netherlands Social Platforms companies?
The most active investors in Amsterdam, Netherlands Social Platforms companies on this list include Techstars, AccelerAsia, Acrobator, Alameda Research, Alpha Ventures.
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