Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Industry-specific networking platforms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,605 industry-specific networking platforms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 112,441 professional contacts across them, including 13,022 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers industry-specific networking platforms worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026. Country and city lists for industry-specific networking platforms follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest industry-specific networking platforms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,375 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GLG is the world’s leading platform for trusted human expertise, connecting decision makers to the precise intelligence they need to gain a strategic edge.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,300 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eu sei que essa é uma rede social profissional.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 590 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “When people come together, powerful things happen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The VAB community was created to connect top talented senior professionals from around the globe and help them engage with peers and experts from different industries and sectors…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Companies Network Gosocket, a B2B networking platform with a mobile component that provides services and a means for companies to interact with each other and streamline…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're on a mission to help everyone realize the true value of their knowledge.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Das Leben ist vielfältig.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “iHire is a leading employment platform that powers a family of 57 industry-focused talent networks, including WorkInSports, iHireVeterinary, iHireDental, iHireConstruction, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vi skaber personlig, faglig og forretningsmæssig værdi gennem fortrolige netværk.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Forbes Councils is a collective of vetted professional networking communities for senior executives and business owners in a variety of industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Life Science Connect brings together the people, companies, and ideas helping the life sciences and environmental industries move forward.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Construction Who's Who group is part of one of the world's largest social media networks for construction, oil, gas, energy transition and renewable energy professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GlobalSpec is the world's largest online destination for industrial professionals, delivering the single source for critical engineering content, information, insight, tools and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ConstructionWork.com is the global networking platform connecting construction workers, contractors, suppliers, and owners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Oktopost is the AI-led B2B social media management platform, purpose-built for enterprise and mid-market marketing teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Business moves at the speed of community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We have firsthand experience and understand the core of the gaps that exist in the Industry today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a company specializing in the relationship between people, with the expertise of who acts for many years on the market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Arena International Events Group provides a comprehensive range of event platforms for multiple industry sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arc is a B2B events, data, and media platform, backed by investment funds managed by EagleTree Capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founders Carbon Network (fCN) komt voort uit de hechte groep zakelijke relaties van onderneemster en netwerkster Merlin Melles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ClickAway Creators is an initiative taken by 3 supremely skilled individuals with over 30 years of collective experience in Conferencing, Exhibition and Media Services for Retail…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “10IT BCGBIG4ITSIer ”3” ① BIG4 JAC Recruitment ② CXO ③ 100 SNS Twitter https://twitter.com/FORTNA_agent Facebook https://business.facebook.com/fortna.home/ Eight…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bem-vindo ao IT Forum!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: industry-specific networking platforms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names industry-specific networking platforms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of industry-specific networking platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name industry-specific networking platforms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Industry-specific networking platforms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among industry-specific networking platforms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for industry-specific networking platforms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “industry-specific networking platforms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names industry-specific networking platforms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among industry-specific networking platforms, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 13,022 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Industry-specific networking platforms by location
11 lists · largest firstEvery Industry-specific networking platforms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Industry-specific networking platforms based in the United States471
- Industry-specific networking platforms based in India254
- Industry-specific networking platforms based in the United Kingdom194
- Industry-specific networking platforms based in France143
- Industry-specific networking platforms based in the Netherlands82
- Industry-specific networking platforms based in Brazil58
- Industry-specific networking platforms based in Germany55
- Industry-specific networking platforms based in Canada48
- Industry-specific networking platforms based in Australia43
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names industry-specific networking platforms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many industry-specific networking platforms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,605 industry-specific networking platforms worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
GLG, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most industry-specific networking platforms?
The United States leads with 471 companies, followed by India (254) and the United Kingdom (194). Every industry-specific networking platforms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most industry-specific networking platforms?
London leads with 103 headquartered companies, followed by New York (58) and Paris (49).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 13,022 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,605 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.