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Social Champ
Techstars '22Karachi, PK · Founded 2017 · 38 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
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Social Champ is a social media management platform that helps agencies and social media managers schedule posts, manage engagement, and analyze performance across 12+ social networks from a unified dashboard. The platform includes AI-powered content creation, analytics, social listening, and team collaboration features.
Also known as Social Champ, Inc.
Founders & leadership
Social Champ was founded in 2017 by Sameer Ahmed Khan, Shakir Ghani, and Zohaib Shakir.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Social Champ is a social media management platform that lets agencies, in-house marketing teams, and small businesses plan, publish, and report on content across more than 12 social networks from one dashboard. Supported platforms include Facebook, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, Google Business Profile, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Mastodon, Bluesky, X (Twitter), and WhatsApp Business. The product also manages Google Play, App Store, and G2 reviews, routes Discord messages into its engagement inbox, and connects to Salesforce, HubSpot, and Google Analytics 4 for CRM and reporting.
Core modules cover publishing (content scheduler, calendar with list, month, week, and grid views, Instagram grid planner, bulk CSV upload, RSS automation, evergreen post recycling, best-time-to-post suggestions, link in bio, Chrome extension), paid amplification (boost posts on Meta, LinkedIn, and TikTok), analytics and client reporting (cross-platform analytics, competitor analysis, GA4 attribution, exportable PDF, PPT, and CSV reports), engagement (unified social inbox with message routing and real-time duplicate-reply tracking, automated replies), social listening for brand keywords and sentiment, and collaboration features including per-client workspaces, team roles, multi-step approval workflows, shared calendar links, and brand advocacy tools for employee sharing. The Champ AI Suite generates captions, images, and hashtags, and an AI social media agent and context-aware AI replies are offered. The company operates the service on the web, via a browser extension, and through iOS and Android apps, and exposes a REST publishing API plus a 41-tool MCP server for AI agents.
The corporate entity, Social Champ, Inc., is registered in Newark, Delaware, while the founding team and operations are associated with Karachi, Pakistan.
Founding story
Cofounder and CEO Sameer Ahmed Khan (born 1990 in Karachi; BSc Computer Science, University of Karachi, 2012, first in class) met cofounders Zohaib Ahmed Shakir and Shakir Ghani as university batchmates. After three unsuccessful product ventures funded by their consultancy OuzelSystems, Social Champ emerged from the failure of RemindZapp: the first version was coded by Zohaib in 2016 as a birthday gift for Sameer, and the team's early visibility came in part from an approach to author Guy Kawasaki, who later endorsed the tool. The founders ran OuzelSystems to bootstrap the company until Social Champ received its first funding.
Business model
Social Champ sells a subscription SaaS product directly to businesses, agencies, and marketing teams. A free forever tier (3 social accounts, 1 user, up to 15 scheduled posts per profile) funnels users toward paid plans; published entry pricing starts at $4 per month, with a Growth plan from $8 per account per month billed annually, and app-store listed tiers historically included Champ ($29/month, 12 accounts, 2 users), Business ($99/month, 40 accounts, 6 users), and a custom-priced Agency plan for 100+ accounts and 10+ users. Add-ons are priced separately.
Recurring subscription revenue from tiered plans priced per social account and per user, with paid add-ons and custom pricing for agency-scale deployments.
Traction
The company's website cites more than 150,000 businesses and agencies using the platform, 700,000+ posts published in the last 30 days, and support for 12+ social networks; the founder's biography describes usage in over 100 countries and tens of millions of posts published monthly. The Android app lists 10,000+ downloads. Named brand accounts referenced on the site include Domino's Pizza, Informa, Teaching Ideas, Thieme International, Viddsee, and Seymour Schools, alongside agencies such as Highfive Media, Darkroom Agency, and Convex Interactive.
Latest developments
Recent product releases include the Social Listening tool (November 2024), LinkedIn Boost Post extending earlier Facebook and Instagram boosting (January 2025), and Post Labels and Team Collision Monitoring (April 2025). The website now markets an agency-first positioning with competitor analysis, GA4 attribution reporting, a Champ AI Suite for captions, images, and hashtags, an AI social media agent, and developer tooling comprising a REST publishing API and a 41-tool MCP server. Newer supported networks include Threads, Bluesky, and WhatsApp Business, alongside review management for Google Play, the App Store, and G2.
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Market position
A third-party business database estimates annual revenue of $1M-$10M and roughly 38 employees as of August 2026, placing the company among the smaller vendors in a crowded social media management market alongside Buffer, Hootsuite, Later, Meltwater, Agorapulse, SocialPilot, Sendible, Planable, and MeetEdgar. The company reports 150,000+ businesses and agencies using the platform and 700k+ posts published in a trailing 30-day period, and competes largely on price and breadth of features for agencies and SMBs.
The company positions the product as a lower-cost alternative to larger social media suites, pairing a broad feature set — publishing, analytics, unified inbox, listening, approvals, and white-label client reporting — with plans starting at $4 per month and a permanent free tier. Agency-oriented governance features such as isolated per-client workspaces with custom time zones, multi-step approvals that apply across every channel a post is scheduled to, team collision monitoring, and shared calendar links that require no client login are emphasized, as are developer-facing options including a REST publishing API and an MCP server for AI agents.
Technology
A web application plus Chrome extension and iOS and Android apps, with a REST publishing API and a 41-tool MCP server for AI agents. AI capabilities cover caption, image, and hashtag generation, context-aware reply drafting, and an AI social media agent; OpenAI is listed among the company's technologies. Integrations span Canva, Google Drive, Dropbox, WordPress, Salesforce, HubSpot, and Google Analytics 4, with Discord messages routed into the engagement inbox. The reported analytics and infrastructure stack includes Matomo, Microsoft Clarity, Snowplow, Amazon Simple Email Service, and Google Ads.
Go-to-market
Distribution is self-serve and product-led: a free forever plan and a 14-day free trial requiring no credit card, with "book a demo" paths for larger agency and enterprise buyers. Marketing leans on third-party review platforms (Capterra, G2, where the company cites 4.5/5 for ease of use and customer support), influencer and practitioner endorsements (Guy Kawasaki, Ian Anderson Gray, Neal Schaffer), content and integrations with tools such as Canva, Google Drive, Dropbox, and WordPress, and mobile app store presence on iOS and Android. Reported technologies include Google Ads, Matomo, Microsoft Clarity, Snowplow, WordPress, Amazon SES, and OpenAI.
Digital and social media agencies managing multiple client accounts, in-house marketing and communications teams at multi-location or enterprise brands, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and individual social media managers and influencers.
Geography
Social Champ, Inc. is registered at 2035 Sunset Lake Rd Ste B2, Newark, Delaware, United States, with a US phone number. The founding team is based in Karachi, Pakistan, and a third-party business database reports staff across four continents including Asia, North America, and Africa. The platform is described as used in more than 100 countries.
History
The product was prototyped in 2016 by cofounder Zohaib Ahmed Shakir as a birthday gift, following the failure of the founders' earlier reminders app RemindZapp. Before Social Champ, the same trio — Sameer Ahmed Khan, Zohaib Ahmed Shakir, and Shakir Ghani — cofounded the software consultancy OuzelSystems in 2013, which bootstrapped three earlier product attempts: GameOChat (2013-2016), Educating Dreams (2014-2015), and RemindZapp (2015-2016). Consultancy revenue funded the company until Social Champ received its first outside funding. Social Champ won at the P@SHA ICT Awards in 2021 and went through the Techstars Toronto accelerator in 2022. Product expansion continued with a Social Listening tool (November 2024), LinkedIn Boost Post (January 2025), and Post Labels and Team Collision Monitoring (April 2025).
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Competitors · 8
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Companies competing with Social Champ for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsSocial Champ launched Post Labels for managing and organizing social media content.
Social Champ introduced Team Collision Monitoring, aimed at team collaboration within social media workflows.
Following the Boost Post feature for Facebook and Instagram, Social Champ launched LinkedIn Boost Post.
Social Champ introduced a Social Listening tool for monitoring social media conversations.
Social Champ participated in the Techstars Toronto accelerator in 2022, according to cofounder and CEO Sameer Ahmed Khan's biography.
Social Champ attended and won at the P@SHA ICT Awards 2021.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Social Champ do?
- Social Champ is a SaaS social media management platform for scheduling, engagement, listening, and analytics across 12+ networks.
- Who founded Social Champ?
- Social Champ was founded by Sameer Ahmed Khan, Shakir Ghani, Zohaib Shakir in 2017.
- Who are Social Champ's investors?
- Social Champ's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Social Champ headquartered?
- Social Champ is headquartered in Karachi, PK.