Best Social Platforms Companies in Ireland
The 40 best Social Platforms companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Fishbowl.
Ranked: Best Social Platforms companies in Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fishbowl Fishbowl is a professional community platform | $8M | 79 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | core-jsUnpkgcdnjs+13 | — |
| 2 | Soundwave Location-based music discovery platform | $3M | 157 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 3 | Resonate Online music streaming platform | $1M | 100 mo ago | Seed | Victor Matekole Co-Founder | 2015 | HugoZohoNginx+4 | — |
| 4 | ChangeX Location-based communities for sharing ideas | $833K | 124 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | SentryAlgoliaTypeScript+30 | 1 job opening |
| 5 | iTagged Photo sharing and discovery using augmented reality & location tagging | $807K | 146 mo ago | Deadpooled | Keith Jordan Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 6 | Leap Personal Group Photo sharing app based on Challenges | $25K | 180 mo ago | Deadpooled | James Dickerson Co-Founder | 2011 | — | — |
| 7 | Limor Audio based social networking platform | — | 76 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | — | — |
| 8 | Balls.ie Social platform for sports fan | — | 168 mo ago | Seed | Brian Reynolds Co-Founder & CEO | 2010 | Tailwind CSSAlpine.jsCloudflare Rocket Loader+9 | — |
Top 9 Social Platforms companies in Ireland
#1
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2012 · 66 employees$7.5Mraised▾
Fishbowl is a professional community platform. Enables users to connect with like-minded professionals on the platform. Users can engage in discussions, share knowledge & information, privately chat with others, and share news & updates about the latest happenings in the industry. Integrated with professional social media platforms.
- Jan 2020Series A$5.3M
#2
Acqui-Hired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2012 · 10 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Location-based music discovery platform. It is a social music discovery platform that enables users to chat and share music with friends. Users can track what songs their friends are listening to on their smartphones and where in real-time. Users can plug into different groups of people and locations in real-time to see what songs are trending.
- Jul 2013Seed$500K
- Jun 2013Seed$1.3M
- Oct 2012Seed$1M
#3
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2014 · 7 employees$833Kraised▾
ChangeX is a location-based community that can be used by users to post innovative ideas for local improvement in various fields. The users can join an already existing idea or can post new ideas. This platform helps the users to connect online as well as offline to implement these ideas in their locality.
- May 2016Seed$400K
- Jul 2015Angel$433K
- Jul 2015Grant (prize money)$5.5K
#4
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2015$1Mraised▾
Online music streaming platform
#5
Deadpooled · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2012 · 7 employees$807.1Kraised▾
iTagged is an augmented reality and location tagging based content sharing social platform. Photos, videos, memes, etc. can be shared and discovered along with the tags to the specific places. Uses augmented reality for the discovery and display of the shared media. The app is available for free download on iOS devices.
- 2014Seed$807.1K
#6
Deadpooled · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2011$25Kraised▾
Leap, a photo sharing app for competitions that enables users to create and document challenges in a group comprising of their close Facebook friends. Users can create challenges based around their interests, invite some Facebook friends and begin competing right away by snapping photos from their phone. More than 50,000 downloads were done in few weeks of the app's launch in 2011. They raised $20K through "The Brandery", an accelerator program in Cincinnati
- Aug 2011Seed$25K
#7
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2015 · 4 employees—raised▾
Limor is an audio based social networking platform. It enables users to create, publish & share their audio casts on the platform. Users can browse through other audio casts on their home feed, like & comment on posts using audio and edit their audio content before publishing.
- Apr 2020Seed—
#8
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2010 · 23 employees—raised▾
Balls Media is a sport driven social platform. It provides a social engagement second screen platform for fans during live sporting events. It offers brands, sports associations, and media companies to spread their message on social media during live games. As of May 2016, they claim to have 1.1M unique users per month.
- Sep 2012Seed—
#9
Deadpooled · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2009—raised▾
NewsLabs is a content network and community based around news and professional journalists. Journalists can apply to create a news site on platform, and if accepted, NewsLab will completely automate and develop a site for the writer, providing design and content management system, SEO and advertising. Platform will host the various micro-news sites on their own network, and will syndicate all content, power social media integration and even link between sites that its hosts when appropriate. Journalists will be able to select their own domain as well. Revenues will be generated from powering the business model and technology for journalists, will take a 20 percent cut of revenue from ads on the site. Backed by Y Combinator. Ceased operation from July, 2010.
- Mar 2010Seed—
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