Social Media Cross-Connection App Openvibe Secures €800K

Prague-based social media startup Openvibe has raised €800,000 in a funding round led by Czech Founders VC, with participation from Tensor Ventures, former Mews CTO Jan Široký, and Automattic—the company behind Tumblr and WordPress.com. The investment aims to accelerate Openvibe’s development and expand its reach as it seeks to unify multiple decentralized social networks into a single, user-friendly platform.

Founded by Matěj Švancer, Openvibe is meant to address the growing fragmentation in the social media space by creating proper cross-connections between platforms. The app connects networks like Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads, allowing users to communicate seamlessly across different platforms while maintaining control over their digital presence.

The purpose of the app was meant to compensate for the current state of some major players in the social media landscale – TikTok’s uncertain future in the U.S., declining user engagement on X, and a growing preference for decentralized alternatives. Currently, the funding will be going towards trying to onboard more users, hiring more developers, and working to integrate more social platforms into the system, expanding the scope of the app to encompass more social platforms.

While several apps have allowed features like crossposting (submitting the same post on different platforms at the same time) or other lower levels of interconnection, larger-scope connection like this hasn’t been done very often. Given that many social media platforms are already part of a larger ecosystem (for example, Threads), it will be interesting to see which platforms Openvibe is able to build a reliable connection with – and whether or not users will flock to it as a unified platform.