Best Social Platforms Companies in Ontario, Canada
The 124 best Social Platforms companies in Ontario, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Rumble.
Ranked: Best Social Platforms companies in Ontario
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Employees | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rumble Video creator monetization platform | $775M | 17 mo ago | Public | Chris Pavlovski Founder & Chief Executive Officer | 70 | PHPFirebaseStripe+20 | — |
| 2 | Wattpad Platform for users to read, write, and share original stories | $118M | 87 mo ago | Acquired | Ivan Yuen Co-Founder | 267 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+25 | 1 job opening |
| 3 | Keek Web/ Mobile short video sharing platform | $38M | 129 mo ago | Late Stage | Mark Itwaru CEO | — | PHPBootstrapVideoJS+18 | — |
| 4 | 500px Photo sharing platform and stock photo marketplace | $23M | 131 mo ago | Acquired | — | 147 | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | — |
| 5 | Discourse Open source discussion platform | $20M | 57 mo ago | Series A | — | 186 | GhostNode.jsVarnish+15 | — |
| 6 | Hubub Social network topic based discussions | $18M | 140 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 1,350 | — | — |
| 7 | Stadium Live Studios Developer of a metaverse-based social network platform for sports fans | $10M | 46 mo ago | Series A | — | 28 | WebflowGSAPSlick+8 | — |
| 8 | LumiQ Online podcast streaming platform | $7M | 20 mo ago | Series A | Michael Kravshik Co-Founder & CEO | 69 | SentryAlgoliaSalesforce+24 | — |
| 9 | Plurk Social networking and micro-blogging service | $5M | 160 mo ago | Series A | — | 3 | Amazon Web ServicesHandlebarscore-js+13 | — |
| 10 | HR.com Online community for human resources professional | $3M | 229 mo ago | Funding Raised | Debbie Mcgrath Chief Instigator / Founder | 279 279 → 289 (+4%) | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+32 | — |
| 11 | Ally Provider of blockchain based communication platform | $1M | 80 mo ago | Funding Raised | Eric Lifson Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 12 | Stage TEN Cloud based live video broadcasting platform | $1M | 88 mo ago | Seed | — | 45 | — | — |
| 13 | The Networking Effect Online business networking community | $1M | 140 mo ago | Seed | John Cameron President and CEO | — | — | — |
| 14 | Stylekick Mobile-based community platform for product discovery | $627K | 143 mo ago | Deadpooled | Anand Dhillon Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 15 | Enthusiast Gaming Online social platform for esports enthusiasts | $600K | 84 mo ago | Public | Adrian Montgomery CEO | 190 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+24 | — |
| 16 | MadLipz Social community application for creating & sharing video content | $501K | 85 mo ago | Seed | Amirali Afshar Co-Founder | 14 | Node.jsZohoMUI+14 | — |
| 17 | Bumpn Location-based social discovery and photo sharing app | $400K | 144 mo ago | Deadpooled | Moe Abbas Co-Founder | 19 | — | — |
| 18 | KillerStartups User-driven internet startups community | $250K | 233 mo ago | Seed | — | 2 | WordPressMySQLPHP+42 | — |
| 19 | FoodShootr A community to share and discover food | $123K | 160 mo ago | Deadpooled | Anthony Raimondo Chief Operations Officer/ Co-Founder | 1 | — | — |
| 20 | Chillabit A student community platform | $120K | 120 mo ago | Deadpooled | Tamara Bain Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 21 | NoteWagon Marketplace for students' note sharing | $100K | 182 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Saif Altimimi Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Social Platforms companies in Ontario
#1
Public · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2013 · 70 employees$775Mraised▾
Video creator monetization platform. The platform allows video creators to host, share, create channels, monetize, and distribute their content across the internet and television from a single centralized video platform. Through the platform video player, both the video creator and publisher are able to generate revenue from embedding the player on their own blogs, websites, and social channels.
- Dec 2024Post IPO$775M
- May 2021Post IPO—
#2
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2016 · 69 employees$7.2Mraised▾
Online podcast streaming platform. It allows users to stream educational podcasts for learning about finance and accounting. The app is available for android and iOS users.
- Sep 2024PE—
- Aug 2022Series A$3.8M
- May 2021Seed$909.6K
- Jun 2019Seed$845K
#3
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2020 · 28 employees$10Mraised▾
Developer of a metaverse-based social network platform for sports fans. It offers a platform where users can create avatars, play games, and unlock rewards with other sports fans. Users can share and stream live content and create teams on the platform. Its application is available for download on Android and iOS stores.
- Jul 2022Series A$10M
- Jul 2020Seed$2.2M
#4
Acquired · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2006 · 267 employees$117.8Mraised▾
Platform for users to read, write, and share original stories. It provides a space where creators can connect with readers. The platform offers various genres, from romance to science fiction. It allows writers to develop their skills and gain exposure.
#5
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2012 · 186 employees$20Mraised▾
Discourse offers an open source platform for running discussion forums. Features include support for integrating with tablet and mobile, SEO, integrates with existing site's login system with easy, robust single sign on, social login, blog integration, desktop notifications etc. Pricing varies from $100/month to $1000/month for enterprise version.
- Aug 2021Series A$20M
- Nov 2012Seed—
#6
Late Stage · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2011$37.5Mraised▾
Social platform for sharing short videos. It allows users to create short videos (“keeks”) using a webcam, iPhone, or Android devices and share them with others around the world. Users follow, subscribe, and respond to videos with either text comments or video replies (“kickbacks”). The Keek mobile app is available on iOS, Android, Windows platforms.
- Sep 2015Post IPO$630K
- Sep 2015Post IPO$333.2K
- Aug 2015Post IPO$816.8K
- Jul 2015Post IPO$250K
#7
Acqui-Hired · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2010 · 1350 employees$18.4Mraised▾
Hubub is a social community that provides a dynamic environment for topic-based discussion, debate and expression. Based on users’ areas of interest, a topic combines content from across the web, including articles, images, videos and social media. Everybody can add polls and start a debate with friends within a topic or explore what others are saying.
- Oct 2014Series A$5M
- Feb 2014Series A$8.5M
- Sep 2013Series A$500K
- Dec 2012Series A$3.6M
#8
Acquired · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2009 · 147 employees$23Mraised▾
500px is a photographic community and a photo sharing platform. Enable users to share and discover inspiring photographs across various themes like people, landscape, nature, city, animals, and other. Allow users to follow photographer to get updated feeds & share their thoughts by liking & commenting on it. Apart from the community services, also offers a stock photo marketplace.
- Jul 2015Series B$13M
- Aug 2013Series A$8.8M
- Jun 2011Series A$525K
#9
Series A · Mississauga, Ontario · founded 2008 · 3 employees$5Mraised▾
Social networking and micro-blogging service. It allows users to send updates only to a subset of friends, post updates on events earlier in the day, and share images, videos, and other media. It allows users to send updates through short messages or links, which can be up to 210 text characters in length.
- Jan 2013Series A$5M
#10
Funding Raised · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2018$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of blockchain based communication platform. It allows users to send disappearing messages, broadcast messages, and chat publicly. It will provide a wallet to send and receive cryptos within the chats. It also allows users to broadcast live videos and earn tokens. The app is available for Android and iOS.
- Sep 2019ICO$1.2M
#11
Funding Raised · Aurora, Ontario · founded 1999 · 279 employees$2.7Mraised▾
HR.com an online community for human resources professionals featuring articles, news, webcasts, events, white papers, discussion forums, best practices, etc. Enables users to follow other members on the platform. Provides an understanding of the HR function to professionals through Exam Prep Courses, Recertification Credits, and more.
- Apr 2007Grant (prize money)$2.7M
#12
Public · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2013 · 190 employees$600Kraised▾
Online social platform for esports enthusiasts. It is a community of gamers with its own digital platforms, news websites, and community forums. The company conducts live events for its members and also has a social platform exclusively for gamers.
- Jun 2019Conventional Debt$10M
- Dec 2018Post IPO$128.5K
- Jun 2018Post IPO$8.5M
- Jun 2018Post IPO$506.1K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Social Platforms coverage by sub-theme.
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Funding & growth over time
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