London’s 41 Fastest Growing Social News Startups

August 2, 2022

At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.

We’ve ranked the top 41 Social News companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).

We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:

  • Track record
  • Executive leadership
  • Market share
  • Innovation
  • ESG rating

Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as CrunchbaseSemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Top Social News Companies & Startups (London)


Minute Media

FoundersAsaf Peled, Gilad Beiman, Yuval Larom
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.


BBC

FoundersJohn Reith
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.


Dexerto

FoundersChris Marsh, Joshua Nino De Guzman, Mike Kent, Nicolas Hulsmans
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.


Full Fact

FoundersMichael Samuel, Will Moy
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Full Fact is the UK’s independent fact-checking charity


Financial Times

FoundersGillian Tett, James Sheridan
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.


Bazaar Daily UK

FoundersMohammed SHK, Taylor ‘TJ’ Wallis
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Bazaar Daily (UK) is the British counterpart to Bazaar Daily News, a massive online news agency founded by Sultan H. Khane II.


loomi.ai

FoundersAl Ramich, Surjit Bhachu
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Loomi is an Intelligent Assistant platform for organising and prioritising user’s connected world.


Live For Football

FoundersDrew Thomson, Randhir Singh, Rupert Lywood
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Live For Football is a vertical social network co-owned by the people that make the content that matters most to fans


LiveTube

FoundersJan Herold, Sven Herold
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

The world’s first Curated Live Video Platform.


AfricanPhotos Magazine

FoundersSimba Mudonzvo
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

AfricanPhotos Magazine is a digital media company delivering news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of Africans.


GB News

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

GB News is a British television news channel that provides news, opinion, and debate for all of its viewers.


Digital Spy

FoundersJames Welsh
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Digital Spy is an online media platform that covers the latest digital television and programming news from the U.K.


Shoutout UK

FoundersMatteo Bergamini
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

A multi-award winning independent news network and course provider that aims to get more young people into and discussing politics.


Socialwise

FoundersJack Maddox
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

SaaS


PolskaHD TV

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

PolskaHD.TV is a TV channels company for educational channels and entertainment destinations for fans of the latest shows.


Tech.London

FoundersGeorge Johnston
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Tech.London is the most comprehensive guide to the startup community, events & jobs in London


AINews

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

AINews is an artificial intelligence group that focuses on business intelligence, machine learning, and chatbots.


LiveFor Class

FoundersBrenden Kane, Sam Enrico Williams
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

LiveFor Class is a leading luxury lifestyle media publishing company.


Lumi Social News

FoundersFelix Miller, Martin Stiksel
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Personalized mobile news and stories, built around an efficient recommendations engine and a powerful social layer


Fake news guard

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

If you could use AI to detect fake news among the thousands of bits of information.


Sherborne Publications Limited

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Socialist Worker is a revolutionary, anti-capitalist socialist newspaper based in Britain


Socialist Party

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

The Socialist Party is a political party, has a long and proud record of struggling to defend working class people.


MrWatchMaster

FoundersAndrew Canter
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

MrWatchMaster covers news, opinion, reviews, and entertainment about the watch sector.


NepaliPatra

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

NepaliPatra publishes news of Nepal in Nepali language for Nepal, UK, Australia and USA.


NewsSocial

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

NewsSocial is an online platform for topical and underground issues, and the open & organised exchange of news, ideas & discussions.


North Wales Live

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

North Wales Live is a weekly newspaper that publishes news on sports, weather, events, health, crime, politics, traffic and business.


In-Reach

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

In-Reach is an online magazine that covers news on various topics.


Digital Health

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Digital Health is a digital portal that provides updates, policy, and news regarding business, technology, and events.


Asian Business Publications

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Asian Business Publications is a news agency that publishes Gujarat Samachar, Asian voice, Kenya special and British Asian women.


Professional Paraplanner

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Professional Paraplanner is a monthly magazine that publishes financial technicians, administrators, and investments articles.


The Financial Cities

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

The Financial Cities is a business news and information organization recognized for authority, integrity and accuracy.


STM Publishing News

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

STM Publishing News focuses on providing online news and information services in the feilds of research, scienece, technical and medical.


Independent Catholic News

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Independent Catholic News is a daily online news service run voluntarily as an assignment for the church by Catholic journalists.


Xtreamr

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Xtreamr is a live video technology that enables broadcasters, brands and event coordinators to create interactive formats on TV and digital.


Bury Times

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Bury Times is a source of local news and sports.


ViralMash

FoundersSamir Garasia
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ViralMash is an entertainment website.


South West Londoner

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

South West Londoner is an online media that covers the latest developments in sports, life, and entertainment news to the public.


Getnewswire

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

GetNewswire provides seamless access to the top global news publishing platforms like Yahoo News, Bloomberg, Forbes, Entrepreneur, etc


BEAM

FoundersIan Petras
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Personal and public social-based content distribution and curation.


Bricking News

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Bricking News is a news and media company that offers audio news from articles of the Independent and Agence France-Presse.


Scuttledog

FoundersUnknown
FollowWebsite, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Scuttledog takes all your news preferences and creates your own e-newspaper.

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