50 Best Social News Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent social news companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 514 companies tracked on Fsome.

514
Total Companies
$4.5B
Total Funding
$8.7M
Avg Funding
New York
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Roundtable
Roundtable is an operator of a news publishing website that delivers truthful in…
San Juan 11 - 50 $34.7M Undisclosed 2025-09-30
2
BBC
BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, edu…
London c 10001 max $5.7M Grant 2019-02-06
3
Forbes
Forbes Magazine is a business magazine that is focused on business news and fina…
Jersey City 251 - 500 $200.0M Corporate Round 2022-02-10
4
Minute Media
Minute Media is a global technology and content company specializing in sports a…
London 501 - 1K $260.0M Debt Financing 2024-01-24
5
Entrepreneur's Diaries
Entrepreneur’s Diaries is a global business media brand covering innovation, lea…
Orlando 11 - 50 $5.6M Series A 2023-03-15
6
BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertain…
New York 501 - 1K $736.3M Post Ipo Debt 2025-05-27
7
LeadStory
LeadStory is a personalized news streaming platform that provides video news tai…
Sydney 11 - 50 $3.9M Seed 2025-07-18
8
GB News
GB News is a British television news channel that provides news, opinion, and de…
London 251 - 500 $153.3M Secondary Market 2022-08-18
9
Yidian Zixun
Yidian Zixun is an interest-oriented mobile news aggregator.
Beijing 501 - 1K $178.2M Series E 2017-11-14
10
Public App
Public App is a social network for local information, including updates on local…
Noida 11 - 50 $41.3M Series Unknown 2021-03-24
11
Minds
Minds is an open source social network on a mission to reward creators and eleva…
Wilton 11 - 50 $17.4M Series B 2021-06-15
12
DALPS Universal Loyalty Cards
DALPS Universal Loyalty Cards eliminate wallet clutter by replacing multiple sto…
London 1 - 10 $18.4M Seed 2025-03-13
13
Handraise
Handraise is unlocking the power of news with AI.
Austin 1 - 10 $6.4M Seed 2023-11-12
14
Way2news
Way2News is a short Summarized News in Your Local Language.
Hyderabad 251 - 500 $30.7M Series B 2024-09-17
15
Sapien
Sapien is the Web3 Social Network of the Future
Fremont 11 - 50 $5.0M Pre Seed 2023-12-26
16
Happs
Happs is a live streaming news platform that covers top stories from around the …
Santa Monica 11 - 50 $4.7M Series A 2021-06-24
17
Spectee
Spectee is a start-up company that specializes in analyzing various data especia…
Tokyo 101 - 250 $25.4M Series E 2026-01-30
18
Heatmap News
Heatmap News is a geographical news aggregation focusing on changing the planet.
Larchmont 11 - 50 $5.0M Series Unknown 2025-08-21
19
Riple Technologies
Riple is an AI research organisation automating news analysis.
London 11 - 50 $697K Equity Crowdfunding 2024-08-28
20
Knewin
Knewin is the biggest PR Tech company in Latin America helping more than 2.000 c…
Florian├│polis 101 - 250 $12.2M Series A 2021-01-01
21
loomi.ai
Loomi is an Intelligent Assistant platform for organising and prioritising user'…
London 1 - 10 $55K Seed 2019-09-01
22
ProPublica
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative jo…
New York 101 - 250 $5.2M Grant 2020-01-28
23
Univision Communications
Univision Communications is a media company that provides media-related services…
New York 1K - 5K $1.8B Debt Financing 2024-05-23
24
RANDIAN
RANDIAN is a patented platform combining video content, web-based-technology and…
Santa Monica 1 - 10 $525K Seed 2019-03-30
25
Jiemian.com
Jiemian.com is a news website in China that focuses on covering business and fin…
Beijing 251 - 500 $59.2M Series Unknown 2020-04-23
26
Immersive Systems
Immersive Systems is a media company that specializes in providing integration o…
Pittsburgh 1 - 10 $902K Series Unknown 2020-01-01
27
The Commons
The Commons creates a forum for community participation, promotes independent jo…
Brattleboro 1 - 10 $100K Grant 2024-10-16
28
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
IntICIJ brings together journalists from different countries to report, edit, an…
Washington 51 - 100 $4.5M Grant 2022-07-26
29
IndieFrame
IndieFrame is an independent digital distribution platform that brings the conte…
Copenhagen 11 - 50 $5.6M Pre Seed 2020-05-25
30
Full Fact
Full Fact is the UK's independent fact-checking charity
London 11 - 50 $2.1M Grant 2019-05-20
31
JohnWallStreet
JohnWallStreet provides newsletter services covering sports industry trends and …
New York 1 - 10 $1.0M Series Unknown 2024-06-27
32
Kessel
Kessel platform allows for the publication of texts, newsletters, and paid subsc…
Paris 11 - 50 $1.4M Seed 2022-07-05
33
The Colorado Sun
The Colorado Sun is a publishing company that offers news and insights on politi…
Denver 11 - 50 $1.4M Grant 2024-10-23
34
Sahan Journal
Sahan Journal is a nonprofit news organisation dedicated to covering Minnesota i…
Saint Paul 1 - 10 $1.4M Grant 2023-02-27
35
City Bureau
City Bureau is a non-profit civic journalism lab that produces media for the pub…
Chicago 51 - 100 $2.4M Grant 2025-07-16
36
Spotlight PA
Spotlight PA is a nonpartisan newsroom for producing investigative journalism ab…
Harrisburg 11 - 50 $1.5M Grant 2025-07-16
37
Feelter
Feelter is an earthquake in the e-commerce market.
Tel Aviv-yafo 1 - 10 $9.0M Series A 2016-10-01
38
States Newsroom
States Newsroom is a journalism company that publishes news reports about state …
Chapel Hill 101 - 250 $20K Grant 2023-01-19
39
Newsvoice
Newsvoice is a news media app that publishes news and perspectives from high qua…
Stockholm 1 - 10 $243K Seed 2018-03-23
40
Dailyhunt
DailyHunt develops a mobile application software that gives updates on trending …
Bangalore 251 - 500 $25.0M Series Unknown 2023-06-28
41
Quadby
Quadby is a voice forum app for university students.
Kuala Lumpur 1 - 10 $86K Pre Seed 2021-04-02
42
Dexerto
Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform new…
London 101 - 250 $359K Seed 2016-10-20
43
Huber
Huber aims to be a tourist information center for travelers and locals as well a…
Kamakura 1 - 10 $1.1M Series Unknown 2018-09-03
44
Revue
Revue is a developer of an editorial newsletter tool designed to build a direct …
Utrecht 1 - 10 $425K Angel 2016-12-13
45
Benditoutiao
Benditoutiao is a online news platform that delivers timely and relevant news, a…
Hangzhou 51 - 100 $5.2M Series A 2016-07-01
46
Qutoutiao
Qutoutiao is a news recommendation app with a focus on light reading with entert…
Shanghai 1K - 5K $497.0M Post Ipo Debt 2019-03-28
47
Hashtag Our Stories
Hashtag Our Stories is a social-first, video publisher, focused on stories about…
Durban 11 - 50 $150K Series Unknown 2023-04-28
48
TTN
TTN is a news and media company that provides local Chinese news and entertainme…
Selangor 11 - 50 $526K Corporate Round 2019-01-02
49
FactorDaily
FactorDaily is a technology news site based in India that provides insights on c…
Bangalore 11 - 50 $1.9M Series Unknown 2018-03-31
50
Accra Business News
Accra Business News is a business news extension of Accra Street Journal that of…
Accra 11 - 50 $2K Undisclosed 2025-10-17