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Best Social Platforms Companies in Berlin, Germany

The 63 best Social Platforms companies in Berlin, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ResearchGate.

63companies tracked
$169.8Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
20have raised

Ranked: Best Social Platforms companies in Berlin

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageEmployeesFounderTech stackRecent signals
12hearts Community
Social platform for education-related discussions
——Unfunded—İskender Dirik
Co-Founder
WebflowSalesforcejsDelivr+9—
2Amazers
SaaS for building communities
——Unfunded—Fabio Carlucci
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
——
3Atameo
Online platform for travelogue sharing
——Deadpooled—Henning Lueke
Founder & CEO
——
4Beder
App-based community platform for travelers
——Unfunded11Pablo Solans
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
——
5Bia
Mobile app to create travel journals
——Unfunded—Deepak Wadhwa
Co-Founder & CEO
——
6BIZZDAR
Cloud-based mobile location based advertising solutions provider
——Deadpooled—Sebastian Hesse
Co-Founder & CEO
——
7Cyberdoktor
Online Q&A platform for health
——Deadpooled—Michael Bader
CEO
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8DubMe
Mobile app studio developing online video apps
——Unfunded————

Top 12 Social Platforms companies in Berlin

#1
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2022 · 5 employees
$7.7Mraised
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Developer of a social media platform intended to offer anonymous compliments. The company's platform aims to promote mental well-being by normalizing and reinforcing positive social media interactions by showing questions when they open the app, which they must answer by choosing another user to anonymously compliment through social gaming products, enabling teenagers to improve the mental health of teens in the digital world.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 5.5% of this cohort's audience
Investors
Accel, Laton, Scooter Braun, Riccardo Zacconi, Johannes Heinze, Ilkka Paananen
#2
Series D · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2008 · 150 employees
$87.6Mraised
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ResearchGate is an online community for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. It has a blogging feature for users to write short reviews on peer-reviewed articles. It also has private chat rooms where scientists can share data, edit shared documents, and discuss confidential topics. The application is available for iOS devices.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 68k LinkedIn followers — 64.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Bioscientifica) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$18.5K
  • Feb 2017Series D$52.6M
  • May 2013Series C$35M
  • Feb 2012Series B—
Founders & team
Horst FickenscherCIO & Co-Founder
Investors
Founders Fund, Benchmark, Accel, Tenaya Capital, Thrive Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsEnvoy
#3
Acqui-Hired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2014 · 288 employees
$20.2Mraised
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Dubsmash is an application to record and share short lip sync videos. Enables users to create short selfie videos dubbed with sounds, music, songs, and classic dialogues. Users can share their video on the platform, view the most trending videos and challenge other users. Integrated with other social media platforms. As reported the app has more than 100 million users in more than 100 countries. In December 2016, raised €9m in Series B funding, led by Sunstone Capital with participation from Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, Eniac Venture, and Lowercase Capital.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2019Series B$4.7M
  • Nov 2016Series B$9.5M
  • Aug 2015Series A$5.5M
  • Seed—
Investors
Index Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Eniac Ventures, Sunstone, The Raine Group, Balderton Capital
#4
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2015 · 214 employees
$25.7Mraised
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Nebenan helps you to get to know and interact with your neighbors in a private, safe, mobile first environment. The website doesn't trade in the personal information of the users and is free to use. Users will not be able to see personal credentials of other users but will be able to interact based on location proximity in a safe environment.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 4.6% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Senior Sales Manager:in Brand & Performance
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. apotheken.de) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2018Series A$19.7M
  • Jul 2016Series A$6.1M
  • Nov 2015Seed—
Founders & team
Matthes ScheinhardtCo-FounderSven TantauCo-FounderIna RemmersCo-Founder & Managing Director
Investors
Lakestar, Hubert Burda Media, Burda Principal Investments, DTM Deutsche Tele Medien, Pd ventures, NWZ Digital
Tech stack
Alpine.JsAmazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesBootstrapCalendlyCloudflare
#5
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2014 · 56 employees
$6.8Mraised
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App-based social platform connecting students. The platform provides users with information and updates about activities and events taking place at the university. It also enables users to engage in discussions with other users anonymously, follow topics, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 5.6% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public)
Activity: 1 awards · 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2021Series A—
  • Jun 2017Series A$6.8M
  • Feb 2016Seed—
  • 2015Seed—
Investors
Redalpine, Global Founders Capital, Floodgate, Founders Network, Rubylight, Atlantic Broadband
Tech stack
CalendlyCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebotCore-JsElementor
#6
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2020
$2.4Mraised
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Online learning platform for school subjects

Founders & team
Julian PriglCo-FounderGregor WeberCo-FounderYannik PriglCo-Founder
Investors
Project A, Mario Götze, Verena Pausder, Discovery Ventures, Saarbruecker 21, MK Venture Capital
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#7
Acquired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2004 · 13 employees
$6.4Mraised
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Plazes is an online service enabling users to connect and communicate with others in various locations. Plazes allowed users to post their location and current activities and share this information with other Plazes users via computers or mobiles. Plazes allows users to create groups or to join an existing group of Plazes users. They suggests groups that the user may wish to join, as well as offer the user the opportunity to search for existing groups. Post acquisition by Nokia, Plazes got access to millions of Nokia users. Plazes was incorporated into Nokia Maps/HERE maps later and were closed on 11th May,2012.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2007Series A$3.5M
  • Jan 2006Angel$1.2M
Investors
BtoV, DH Private Equity Partners, Mountain Partners, Edventure Holdings, Faber
#8
Acquired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2008
$6.3Mraised
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Provider of an online 3D based virtual social network. It connects users through 3-D avatar-based experience. Users can create their avatar, chat with other users in virtual 3-D rooms, go to and host parties, go out shopping, create their apartments, cities, islands etc. Twinity was acquired by Exit Reality in June 2012 for an undisclosed amount.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2009Series A$6.3M
Founders & team
mirko dr. casparFounder
Investors
Grazia Equity, Kfw
#9
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2013 · 8 employees
$5Mraised
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Tapstack is a social sharing platform that enables users share photos or videos in one shot. Enables users shoot photos and videos of up to 10 seconds and send in one tap to friends, family or contacts. Allows users to delete photos or save them in an album shared between the sender and receiver. Reportedly raised $5M from investors including Ashton Kutcher's A-Grade Investments, SV Angel, Winklevoss Capital. The app is available for Android and iOS devices.

Funding rounds
  • May 2014Seed$5M
Investors
A-Grade Investments, SV Angel, Earlybird, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Winklevoss Capital
#10
Acquired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2016 · 10 employees
$1.6Mraised
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Mapify is a social networking platform for travelers. Enables users to browse through trips (created by other users), discover places and view personalized travel feed. Users can also plan & share trips on the platform and find other travelers interested in the trip. Additionally, the platform also provides flight information, visa information, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2018Seed$1M
  • Mar 2018Angel$300K
  • Nov 2017Seed$330K
Founders & team
Tobi SchnorpfeilCo-FounderSebastian HadeCo-FounderMagnus LangankeCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, LayJax Ventures, ennea capital partners, Mairdumont Ventures, Atlantic Labs, Haus Capital
Tech stack
ContentfulNode.JsAmazon ElbAmazon Web ServicesVue.JsNginx
#11
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2019
$20Kraised
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App-based social platform for parents. The platform allows users to discover playgrounds, playdate partners, kid-friendly places, babysitters, peer groups, and more. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS users.

Funding rounds
  • 2020Seed$20K
Founders & team
AnnaFounder & CEOHenrike GerberCo-FounderAnna GerberCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Techstars
#12
Deadpooled · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2011
$69Kraised
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Knowable is a social network for makers, product designers, and engineers from all over the world can collaborate on building new products. the platform is intended for hardware entrepreneurs as well as DIY-collectives and open hardware enthusiasts. Knowable is pretty much like a Github for hardware. The platform offers easy iterations, version control, and team management.

Funding rounds
  • May 2014Conventional Debt$69K
Founders & team
Simon HoeherCo-FounderEmanuel SchwarzCo-Founder
Investors
Seedcamp, Hasso Plattner Ventures
Tech stack
Github PagesGoogle Font Api

Funding & investor landscape

$169.8Mtotal disclosed funding
12companies funded
18disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Techstars3 rounds
10x Group2 rounds
Accel2 rounds
Atlantic Labs2 rounds
Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator2 rounds
DTM Deutsche Tele Medien2 rounds
Earlybird2 rounds
Hasso Plattner Ventures2 rounds
Lakestar2 rounds
Pd ventures2 rounds

Notable founders

Horst Fickenscher
CIO & Co-Founder · ResearchGate
Matthes Scheinhardt
Co-Founder · Nebenan
Sven Tantau
Co-Founder · Nebenan
Julian Prigl
Co-Founder · Knowunity
Gregor Weber
Co-Founder · Knowunity
mirko dr. caspar
Founder · Twinity
Tobi Schnorpfeil
Co-Founder · Mapify
Sebastian Hade
Co-Founder · Mapify
Anna
Founder & CEO · Mello
Henrike Gerber
Co-Founder · Mello
Simon Hoeher
Co-Founder · Knowable
Emanuel Schwarz
Co-Founder · Knowable
Prism market signals · Germany · country-scoped Prism corpus, 168,375 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 flat

Common questions

How many Social Platforms companies are there in Berlin, Germany?
Radar tracks 63 indexable Social Platforms companies headquartered in Berlin, Germany that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Social Platforms companies in Berlin, Germany?
The Social Platforms companies in Berlin, Germany on this list have raised a combined $169.8M in disclosed equity funding across 12 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Social Platforms company in Berlin, Germany?
ResearchGate is the highest-funded Social Platforms company in Berlin, Germany, with $87.6M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Social Platforms companies in Berlin, Germany are funded?
12 of the 63 Social Platforms companies in Berlin, Germany on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Social Platforms unicorns are there in Berlin, Germany?
None of the Social Platforms companies in Berlin, Germany on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Berlin, Germany Social Platforms companies?
The most active investors in Berlin, Germany Social Platforms companies on this list include Techstars, 10x Group, Accel, Atlantic Labs, Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator.
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