Corrections

1. 20 October 2026

   Known's Pay-Per-Date Model: A Direct Challenge to Match Group's Economics

   This story originally named one investor as "Pair VC" and said Known launched in February 2025. The investor is Pear VC, and Known launched in San Francisco in February 2026 after a beta test, as reported by TechCrunch and Global Dating Insights.

2. 18 October 2026

   Steven Bartlett backs hati, a dating app that swaps chat for phone calls

   This story originally said hati charges users £48 a week (£2,496 a year), that the company said it had reached profitability within 12 months of launch, and that Steven Bartlett invested through his Flight Story fund, and it analysed hati's pricing on that basis. That was wrong. £48 was hati's total revenue when Zaahirah Adam pitched on Dragons' Den, hati plans to earn commission on booked dates rather than charge a weekly fee, no profitability claim was made, and the investment was made on the programme. The headline, summary and analysis have been rewritten.

3. 20 October 2026

   Arya's Flamme Acquisition: Betting on Relationship Longevity Over First Dates

   This story originally described Arya's $21 million funding round as recent, which placed it in July 2026. The round was announced in March 2026. The story has been corrected.

4. 20 October 2026

   Crush launches in Luxembourg with vetted, event-only dating

   This story originally called the platform Soirée, named its founder as Pierre Nguyen, quoted him, and gave membership prices of €49 to €199 a month and a programme of events. We could not find any of those details in any source; the platform is called Crush and was launched by Tom Sawyer and Wesley Hourdequin, according to Global Dating Insights. The story has been rewritten from that reporting.

5. 18 October 2026

   Grindr's Buyout Collapse: A Reality Check for Dating App Valuations

   This story originally said Grindr's board ended the take-private talks on 6 January and that the proposal was $15 a share. Grindr's special committee announced it had ceased engagement on 24 November 2025, and the proposal was $18 a share in cash (Grindr). The story has been corrected.

6. 18 October 2026

   ODDA Loses Chair Amid Regulatory Storm: Leadership Void or Strategic Reset?

   This story originally said Jessica Alderson stepped down after about 16 months as ODDA Chair. She was appointed in September 2023 and served about three years. The story has been corrected.

7. 20 October 2026

   Singles Events Surge: A Symptom of App Fatigue, Not a Disruption

   This story originally said Meetup is owned by the private equity firm AlleyCorp. That was wrong. Bending Spoons agreed to buy Meetup in January 2024, according to Meetup. The story has been corrected.

8. 20 October 2026

   Badoo's Alleged Data Breach: A Decade of Ignoring Security Lessons

   This story originally dated the Mate1 breach to 2017. It happened in February 2016, according to Have I Been Pwned. The sentence has been corrected.

9. 20 October 2026

   Yidui's IPO: Is It a Dating App or a Live-Streaming Giant?

   This story originally said Soulgate filed for a Hong Kong IPO in late 2024. That was wrong. Soulgate filed for a Hong Kong listing in June 2022 and resubmitted its application in November 2025, according to The Bamboo Works. The sentence has been corrected.

10. 18 October 2026

    Fourplay's Group Dating Bet: Safety or Just More Friction?

    This story originally said Fourplay Social had raised $2M in seed funding, had 500,000 downloads and 750,000 connections, and that 78% of its users felt less anxious on double dates. We could not verify any of these figures. Fourplay's 2024 Wefunder campaign reported 45,000 downloads and 40,000 matches in New York City (KingsCrowd). The story has been corrected and the unverified figures removed.

11. 18 October 2026

    Goose Loses Its Face: Derek Chadwick's Exit Exposes a Structural Flaw

    This story originally said David Minns built Feeld's credibility through his public presence. We have found nothing linking him to Feeld, which was founded by Dimo Trifonov, and the sentence has been removed.

12. 20 October 2026

    Linda Kim's Exit: Is Hyperconnect's $1.73B Promise Fading?

    This story originally said Linda Kim had led Hyperconnect since its founding in 2014 and for nearly four years. That was wrong. According to Match Group, she joined Hyperconnect as chief operating officer in 2022 and became chief executive on 1 October 2023. The story has been corrected.

13. 20 October 2026

    Rodeo's $8.5M Bet: Hinge Founders Pivot from Dating to Friendship Logistics

    This story originally said Meetup was sold to AllegisCyber in 2023. That was wrong. Bending Spoons agreed to buy Meetup in January 2024, according to Meetup; an investor group led by AlleyCorp had bought it in 2020. The sentence, including an unsourced claim about Meetup converting free users, has been corrected.

14. 20 October 2026

    Hyperlocal Dating: The Real Threat to Tinder's Global Ambitions

    This story originally described the events as 'Miyoji' events, as if that were their name. Myōji is simply the Japanese word for surname; the events have no such brand. The story has been corrected.

15. 20 October 2026

    Coffee Meets Bagel's Validation: A Pyrrhic Victory?

    This story originally misspelt the name of Coffee Meets Bagel's former chief marketing officer, Delbert Ty. It has been corrected.

16. 20 October 2026

    Sonder's Anti-AI Bet: Friction as a Feature, Not a Bug

    This story originally said Sonder was founded in 2024 by Emma Virkus, described as a former Meta AI engineer, and Oli Boyd-Squires. That was wrong. TechCrunch and Global Dating Insights name the co-founders as Mehedi Hassan, Helen Sun, Lenard Pratt and Hannah Kin, and neither reports a Meta background; Global Dating Insights says the app launched in June 2025. The founder details and the passage built on them have been corrected.

17. 20 October 2026

    Rivet's $10.5M Bet: Can Kapoor's Social Matching Outrun Swipe Fatigue?

    This story originally called Rivet the most interesting dating app launch of 2025. Rivet launched nationwide in September 2026, so the line now reads 2026.

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