Top Social Media Startups in Germany

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.

DTCo was started in early 2020 to solve for 3 essential problems that all DTC brands face: 1) Growth Strategy, 2) Performance Management, 3) Reporting & Analytics. This focus has made and changed businesses over the last 6+ years and is what we offer today. The main difference is that we’ve built a team around the product that has evolved and elevated it’s delivery. As we’ve grown over the years, we’ve further differentiated ourselves by hiring an amazing team. We have a number of reasons and goals for building the type of company we’re building, but to distill it, we want to play a pivotal role in helping brands profitably scale and be considered one of the best. Equally important, we want to work with people who are passionate about growth and building, genuinely give a shit, and are great people to work with.

Flatlay is the end to end social commerce automation platform for brands, creatives & customers. We provide publishing tools that help anyone start a digital storefront in seconds codelessly while empowering brands and retailers to activate community and content loyalty programs. The platform has automation processes around product annotation and content delivery through a publishing scheduler helping both ends monetize the relationship. By aligning incentives with customers, fans and followers - we help to instill a Content Loyalty Program for brands to become digitally native and own the DTC relationship. Flatlay provides a suite of publishing tools allowing users to codelessly create a digital storefront in seconds. Through content driven commerce, the social marketplace network further empowers the creator economy. Users build shop-able collections to generate revenue from affiliate sales with the ability to be sponsored directly by brands for customized content. This is all done through an automated SaaS platform where brands & retailers tap into the campaign work-flow system. Clients effectively match with the right creative brand advocates at scale using the power of machine learning in a self-serve custom relationship management portal. Our vision is to evolve the way commerce is conducted online by removing intermediaries cutting into margins while empowering brands and retailers the most streamlined way to go direct to consumer. By building a social commerce marketplace, we evolve the way that e-commerce is done by placing content at the forefront and eliminating many of the headaches associated with logistics.

Hello! We're a fully remote team of ∼60 people on a mission to help every creator earn a living. We do that by supporting hundreds of brands in their effort to find local creators around the globe, partner with them and monitor their performance. In the long term, we'll be the control centre creators use to earn a living. With nearly 2000 customers partnering with +10k creators a month, we are well on our way to helping a million creators get paid every single year. ? About our products: Modash's flagship product is discovery and analysis. We allow brands to find influencers all over the world, who reach real, targeted audiences and create impactful, relevant content. We list every creator on Instagram, Tiktok and Youtube. We also offer a monitoring product, which collects content for brands and measures it's performance. Imagine you have 1000 creators globally publishing every day - it's a real pain to keep track of what's happening. In Modash, it's the click of a button. Connecting these two powerful tools are lightweight relationship management functionality so teams can work together to scale their creator partnerships. People love this, because it gets them out of sheets and help keeps things updated in a single place. Some of our up-and-coming projects are in stealth mode. They leverage the power of data, the millions of relationships we're fostering and solve key pay-points related to partnerships and finance. Ask us about them in our intro call!

Thor’s Hall is building a performance-based network for creators, publishers, marketers and online communities. We help partners monetize their audiences without having to build the technical infrastructure themselves. Thor’s Hall handles dedicated landing pages, campaign tracking, reporting and partner management while our partners focus on bringing quality traffic through the channels they already understand. Our model is simple: if a partnership generates revenue, everyone involved shares in the results. We currently focus on online gaming and iGaming, with the goal of building a wider network of creators, publishers and growth partners across multiple markets. We are still early, which means the people joining now have the opportunity to help shape how Thor’s Hall grows, test new acquisition strategies and potentially develop long-term partnerships as the network expands.

Millions of 2SLGBTQ+ people around the world cannot safely access community life. Find support, get information, and find entertainment where they live. ProudZone is building the online neighborhood they deserve. We are a privacy-first ecosystem connecting 2SLGBTQ+ individuals with community, information, and support — safely and on their own terms. We have laid the first stone, establishing the technical and editorial standards that everything else will be built on. More services follow as we grow. Safety is not a feature for us. It is the foundation every decision is built on — from the technology we choose to the partners we work with. We are a small, international founding team spread across Germany, Canada, and Portugal. We work async, across time zones, with a deep commitment to building something that genuinely matters. Our legal home spans two entities: sensationCLICK! UG in Germany and sensationCLICK Inc. in Canada. We are pre-seed, bootstrapped, and building deliberately. If you are looking for a place where your work has a direct impact on the safety and belonging of people who need it most — you are in the right place.

DharmikVibes is a community-driven spiritual and wellness experience company and phygital platform. We are building the trust layer for India's spiritual economy: Divine Experiences, spiritual and wellness content, and local communities, connected in one ecosystem for seekers in India and abroad. What we are building: - Divine Experiences: satsang, kirtan, pujas, darshan, rituals and heritage, with clear information on when, what and how - Wellness experiences and content: calm, meditation and mindful routines (wellness.dharmikvibes.com) - DharmikGuide: bringing local pandits, guides and experience providers online as micro-entrepreneurs - DharmikHubs: physical local anchors for community, learning and services - Spiritual stories and content in English, Hindi and regional languages (blog.dharmikvibes.com) - Curated experiences for NRIs, senior citizens, Gen Z, women and families Our vision is to enable 1M+ micro-entrepreneurs and local livelihoods around India's sacred places, with trust, experience and economy designed in. Hiring: we are growing fast across sales, relationships and operations. Write to [email protected].

- Completely Secular Universal Creator Shop - Global Brand Partnerships - Strategic Growth Consulting - High-intent Shopper Distribution Quick Facts - 700+ team members worldwide in 11 global locations - 5K retailers and 1M brands in 165+ countries - 200k Creators, 200 LTK millionaires - $3.6B in sales through LTK Creators in 2022 - $1.9B brand investment in LTK creators since 2011 - 18M monthly shoppers - 50% more brand campaigns than prior year - 4M apple downloads 4.9/5 stars - 562K Goole Play 4.4/5 stars Awards - FastCompany 10 most innovative companies 2022 (3 years in a row) - Goldman Sachs "Builder + Innovators" 2022 - INSIDER 100 People Transforming Business - Forbers Future of Work 50 - Home Depot Top Content Partner 2022 - Hello Partner Top 30 US Pioneers in Influencer Marketing