Top Social Media Marketing Startups in 2027

Revinate is a direct booking platform that leads the hospitality industry in driving direct revenue and increased profitability. Our products and our people combine to give hoteliers the superpowers they need to crush their goals. With Revinate, hoteliers shift share away from OTAs and drive tangible results across an individual property or a portfolio. Our industry-leading, AI-powered customer data platform collects, unifies, and synthesizes data, giving hoteliers a foundational advantage. Hoteliers gain critical intelligence – guest lifetime spend, stay preferences, ancillary revenue, and more. With Revinate’s Rich Guest Profiles™, hoteliers don’t need to guess who their most profitable guests are or how to drive conversions across email, voice, messaging, and digital channels. Revinate's direct booking platform and omnichannel communication technology powers 950+ million Rich Guest Profiles across 12,500+ hotels to drive over $17.2 billion in direct revenue. We have won numerous awards for our Software-as-a-Service solutions, including 2019’s Top Rated Email Marketing and CRM Product by Hotel Tech Report. We make technology work for your hotel so you can make the most of every guest. Check out our Explainer Video: revinate.com/?wvideo=frbmfzdygf

Sprout Social offers deep social media listening and analytics, social management, customer care, and advocacy solutions to more than 30,000 customers worldwide including DoorDash, General Mills, Trello, Make-a-wish Foundation, Edelman, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Sprout’s suite of solutions supports every aspect of a cohesive social program and enables organizations of all sizes to extend their reach, amplify their brand and create the kind of real connection with their consumers that drives their businesses forward. Want to join Team Sprout? We're hiring: sproutsocial.com/careers

Brand Knew is a creative collective and strategic advisory that partners with media companies, causes and consumer brands, towards meaningful audience and growth.

Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers. Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.

CreatorIQ is the global system of record for managing and optimizing creator-driven campaigns at scale. Powerful enough for the world’s biggest enterprises and nimble enough for its most innovative, CreatorIQ’s Enterprise Creator Cloud enables intelligent creator discovery, streamlines end-to-end workflow, ensures brand safety, and drives meaningful measurement. Hulu, Airbnb, CVS, Dell, Disney, Mattel, Ralph Lauren, Salesforce, Tiffany&Co., Sephora and Unilever utilize our platform to drive real business results across their storytelling ecosystems. CreatorIQ is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York City, Chicago and London.

Hootsuite is the most widely used platform for managing social media, loved by over 10 million people around the globe and trusted by more than 800 of the Fortune 1000. With Hootsuite, brands harness the power of social. Our platform brings together your social networks and integrates with hundreds of business applications. It’s the one place to build customer relationships, listen to the needs of the market and grow your revenue.

CentralApp is a successful international Belgian startup. After raising 500k€ from the founders of Keytrade and Skynet, CentralApp has developed a platform that digitally transforms the way restaurants, shops and beauty salons do marketing. This tool is now used by over 1000 businesses in Belgium, France, and other countries. This last year our websites have have been used by over 2 million people, a 400% growth from last year. We work daily with industry leaders working with local businesses such as Google, BNP Paribas Fortis, Deliveroo, Schwarzkopf, or with Petit Futé. To fuel this explosive growth we are looking for business people who are entrepreneurial and passionate about business development!

Tencent's diverse services include social networks, web portals, e-commerce, and multiplayer online games. We want to support companies that help connect people in broad and meaningful ways. The Tencent Exploration (TenX) Team is a small group based in Palo Alto that works with and funds innovative companies in the technology and internet sectors. With the future in mind, the team seeks out leading entrepreneurs building products in emerging areas such as AI, Space, VR, healthIT, Fin Tech, and others. Visit our Portfolio page at TenX.tc

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Influee is a global creator marketplace and content platform that helps brands and agencies produce high‑performing user‑generated content (UGC) for paid social, at scale. We connect e‑commerce brands, performance marketing agencies, and digital products with 80,000+ vetted creators across 23 markets, primarily in Europe plus the US, Canada, and Australia. Our creators produce real, relatable content using real people, real environments, and intentionally imperfect, native styles that perform exceptionally well on Meta, TikTok, and other paid social channels. Brands use Influee to power their performance marketing, app acquisition, product storytelling, and always‑on content needs with a steady stream of UGC video ads, testimonials, unboxings, and social‑native creatives.