Best Social Platforms Companies in Germany
The 204 best Social Platforms companies in Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ResearchGate.
Here's where you find the best Social Platforms companies in Germany, ranked by disclosed equity funding and the funding momentum that actually tells you who's moving. We're tracking 204 companies with $211M in total disclosed funding, and the distribution is striking: ResearchGate alone pulled in $88M, nearly 42% of the whole pool, while Nebenan ($26M), Dubsmash ($20M), Meet5 ($9M), and Slay ($8M) round out a tier that's genuinely building something. No unicorns yet, but the base is active.
So what's the signal beneath the numbers? Median install growth across 87 social apps in this category is running at roughly +17% year-on-year, which means user appetite is real even if the funding is concentrated. One platform poised for growth illustrates exactly how social infrastructure is finding new monetization angles right now, and separately, purpose-built communities are gaining traction as founders chase underserved audiences rather than broad networks. Investors like HV Capital and Techstars are clearly watching the same thesis. Germany's social platform scene isn't the loudest room, but the momentum's harder to ignore than it was twelve months ago.
Ranked: Best Social Platforms companies in Germany
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | App-install YoY | Web popularity | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ResearchGate Online community for scientists | $88M | 66 mo ago | 150 150 → 351 (+134%) | Horst Fickenscher CIO & Co-Founder | +41% | Top 500k | 1 partnership |
| 2 | Nebenan Social networking platform for neighbours | $26M | 98 mo ago | 214 214 → 128 (-40%) | Matthes Scheinhardt Co-Founder | — | Top 50k | — |
| 3 | Dubsmash An application to record and share short lip sync videos | $20M | 86 mo ago | 288 | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Qype Social platform for providing users reviews of businesses & places | $18M | 213 mo ago | 84 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Meet5 Geo-based social platform to meet people in groups | $9M | 9 mo ago | 28 | Joao Filipe Tavares Ferreira Co-Founder | +85% | Top 1M | — |
| 6 | Slay Social Q&A platform for school students | $8M | 24 mo ago | 5 | — | — | Top 50M | — |
| 7 | Jodel App-based social platform connecting students | $7M | 63 mo ago | 56 | — | +6% | Top 5M | — |
| 8 | Plazes geosocial networking site | $6M | 232 mo ago | 13 | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Twinity Provider of an online 3D based virtual social network | $6M | 203 mo ago | — | mirko dr. caspar Founder | — | — | — |
| 10 | Mylivn Online application for creative professionals | $6M | 78 mo ago | 14 | Lars Luethke Managing Director | — | — | — |
| 11 | Tapstack Mobile app to shoot and share photos or short videos | $5M | 144 mo ago | 8 | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Ciao Product review portal | $5M | 300 mo ago | — | Richard Stables CEO | — | — | — |
| 13 | Knowunity Online learning platform for school subjects | $2M | 61 mo ago | — | Julian Prigl Co-Founder | — | Top 1M | — |
| 14 | Mapify Social networking platform for travelers | $2M | 92 mo ago | 10 | Tobi Schnorpfeil Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 15 | Aloqa Location based social discovery | $2M | 203 mo ago | 3 | Johannes Martens Co-Founder & Managing Director | — | — | — |
| 16 | Latest Thinking Research-driven platform that enables scientists to share latest thinking and research | $269K | 57 mo ago | — | Pajam Sobhani Founder & CEO | — | Top 50M | — |
| 17 | Tumbie Online Q&A community | $238K | 180 mo ago | — | Roman Schulz Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 18 | GameBuddy Provider of social networking platform for gamers | $150K | 101 mo ago | 1 | Niklas Hatje Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 19 | Higgs App Enables video live streaming with multiple perspective | $120K | 101 mo ago | — | Leon Szeli Co-Founder | — | — | — |
Top 12 Social Platforms companies in Germany
#1
Series A · Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse · founded 2017 · 28 employees$9.4Mraised▾
Meet5 is a geo-based social platform to meet people in groups. Users can geo-locate themselves, and create a group meeting at their location. The application offers various features including meeting with more than six people with a fix location & radius, profile updates, and favorite lists, etc. The application is available on Android & iOS platform. It generates revenue through in-app purchases.
- Sep 2025Series A$9.4M
#2
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2022 · 5 employees$7.7Mraised▾
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.
#3
Series D · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2008 · 150 employees$87.6Mraised▾
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.
- Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$18.5K
- Feb 2017Series D$52.6M
- May 2013Series C$35M
- Feb 2012Series B—
#4
Acqui-Hired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2014 · 288 employees$20.2Mraised▾
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.
- Apr 2019Series B$4.7M
- Nov 2016Series B$9.5M
- Aug 2015Series A$5.5M
- Seed—
#5
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2015 · 214 employees$25.7Mraised▾
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.
- Mar 2018Series A$19.7M
- Jul 2016Series A$6.1M
- Nov 2015Seed—
#6
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2014 · 56 employees$6.8Mraised▾
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.
- Feb 2021Series A—
- Jun 2017Series A$6.8M
- Feb 2016Seed—
- 2015Seed—
#7
Acquired · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2006 · 84 employees$18.5Mraised▾
Qype is a social platform for providing users reviews of businesses & places. The portal allows users to discover the location and see the ratings of restaurants, doctors, government agencies, and entertainment venues, etc.
- Sep 2008Series A$11.4M
#8
Deadpooled · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2015 · 14 employees$6.1Mraised▾
Mylivn is an online application for artists & creative professionals. The application allows various artists to share their experiences such as fashion designers, UI experts, tattoo artists, food bloggers, travelers junkie, etc. The application allows users to create their own feed, and share their stories. It offers various features including interactive maps, group chats, fun stickers, filter & texts, and voice messaging, etc. The application is available on the iOS platform.
- Dec 2019Seed$6.1M
#9
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2020$2.4Mraised▾
Online learning platform for school subjects
#10
Acquired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2004 · 13 employees$6.4Mraised▾
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.
- Feb 2007Series A$3.5M
- Jan 2006Angel$1.2M
#11
Acquired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2008$6.3Mraised▾
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.
- Jul 2009Series A$6.3M
#12
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2013 · 8 employees$5Mraised▾
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.
- May 2014Seed$5M
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