Deals, earnings, valuations and investor news from the dating business.
Tinder is hosting pickleball, art classes and silent discos in Los Angeles as CEO Spencer Rascoff targets Gen Z swipe fatigue.
ateam, a wellness dating app, launched in New York with an 11-minute daily usage cap and 15 fitness studio partnerships.
Grindr's Q1 revenue reached $130 million, up 38% year-on-year, and it raised full-year guidance to $535 million as Match backs rival Sniffies.
Tinder Canada's Astrology Mode campaign drew over 770,000 influencer impressions and more than 24,000 engagements, according to NetInfluencer.
A 2023 Axios study found 79% of US Gen Z respondents avoid regular dating app use, which an analysis says threatens app unit economics.
Match Group has revived its internship programme as 'Tindership'. More than 30,000 people applied for 27 places, which run from 1 June through 28 August.
Matrimony.com's Q4 net profit rose 18.7% year-on-year to ₹9.7 crore (£750,000), while revenue grew 7.8% to ₹116.8 crore (£9.11m).
Match Group's Q1 2026 revenue rose 4% to $864M even as Tinder's monthly active users fell 7% year-on-year as of March 2026.
Match Group's Yoel Roth has joined Reality Defender's Ethics Committee on deepfake detection, as FBI data shows romance scam losses of $652M in 2023.
Grindr posted $129.94 million in Q1 2026 revenue, up 38%, with a 45% adjusted EBITDA margin, and raised full-year revenue guidance above $528 million.
Bumble's Q1 revenue was $212.4M, but paying users fell 21.1% to 3.2 million. Net earnings rose 165.4% to $52.6M ahead of the Q4 2026 "Bee" AI launch.
47% of Gen Z would rather meet a partner at a book club than on a dating app, according to ThriftBooks research, pressing Match Group and Bumble.
Match Group posted Q1 revenue of $864M, beating estimates, as paying subscribers fell 5% to 13.5 million and it said it will slow hiring.
Dating app Known charges $15 per confirmed first date, not subscriptions, and has raised $10M. Its founder reports a 50% acceptance rate on proposed matches.
Match Group has invested $100M for a minority stake in Sniffies, with an option to acquire the app outright later. Announced on 27 April.
Hinge has launched 'Signals', an unpurchasable badge for users who send personalised messages and confirm dates, but it gave no data on relationship outcomes.
Match Group is partnering with World to introduce iris-scanning verification on Tinder. World has faced action in Spain, Kenya and Germany.
Machine Zone co-founder Mike Sherrill has backed SPARK, a Singapore dating app that aims to cut screen time, with an undisclosed sum.
Bumble has taken a $475 million senior secured term loan from STORY3 Capital Partners and lenders to retire its existing term loan in full.
Swiss dating startup noii dropped its matching algorithm for in-person events and drew 350 attendees to its first German event in Stuttgart.
EliteSingles shuts permanently on 30 April 2026 with 48 hours' notice, as parent Spark Networks faces insolvency proceedings in Germany.
Grindr is running a Madonna campaign for Confessions II in its app, testing ad revenue beyond subscriptions across 14 million monthly active users.
Psychiatrist Amir Levine argues Match Group's $9 billion app business exploits users' threat-detection systems, and 78% report emotional exhaustion.
Tinder's user base fell 23%, from 65.4 million in 2021 to 50.5 million, and men are roughly 75% of users, according to Match Group's latest figures.
84% of EU adults do not trust American tech firms with their data, per a Politico survey, a risk for Match Group and Bumble.
Eight, a Portuguese video-first dating app open only 8pm to 9pm, has raised €256,600 of a planned €3M seed round.
Chinese dating platform Yidui has refiled for a Hong Kong IPO, reporting 16.4% of users pay and 98.7% of revenue from virtual gifts.
Match Group has launched The League, its invite-only, LinkedIn-verified dating app, in Mumbai and Delhi, its first expansion into Asia.
Plus 1, a South Florida plans-based app, reached 10,000 downloads in six months and introduced premium tiers without disclosing retention data.
Tinder is repositioning as a 'connection platform' to address loneliness, citing a $125M annual trust and safety spend and in-person events.
Tinder downloads fell 21%, from 61 million in 2021 to 48 million in 2025, as Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff restructures the app into smaller teams.
Friending has raised £5M in seed funding for a friendship app that deletes chats after 48 hours and pushes in-person meetups, a model the story questions.
Dining app 222 has raised $10.1M in Series A funding, taking its total to $13.7M, for AI-curated group dinners at $22 per month in four US cities.
Bumble's Q4 revenue of $273M beat expectations by 1.3% while paying users fell 20.5% to 3.1M after it cut performance marketing by over 80%.
Meta now charges advertisers 2-5% 'location fees' on campaigns in six countries, including the UK and France, raising user acquisition costs for dating apps.
13D Management sold its entire Match Group stake, 64,350 shares worth $4.69M, in Q4 2024, according to SEC filings.
Meetic will open its Speak Easy in-person singles events to non-subscribers from 2026, after a 70-person Paris event in October 2024.
Match Group scrapped its COO role 12 months after creating it, and Hesam Hosseini, who led Tinder and Hinge, is leaving, a filing shows.
Crush, a new Luxembourg dating platform, vets every member and matches people only at in-person events, with no online browsing.
Steven Bartlett invested £150,000 for 30% of hati, a UK dating app built on five-minute phone calls, which had £48 of revenue when it pitched.
Match Group will host SPARKS 2025, its first standalone product event, on 12 March 2025, with Tinder's roadmap the sole focus.
Rodeo, founded by former Hinge executives, raised $8.5M in seed funding led by Coefficient Capital for an app that turns social posts into friend plans.
Green Flags charges men to contest or remove negative reviews on the women-only dating safety app Tea, according to 404 Media.
Threads is testing clickable "DM me" links in the U.S. and Canada, a move the story says copies dating apps' low-friction private messaging.
Grindr reported Q4 revenue of $126M, up 29% year-over-year, beating estimates by $4M, and launched Edge, a premium AI subscription tier.
Bumble Inc launched AI photo and bio coaching tools and is testing Suggest a Date in Canada, as paying users fell to 4.4 million in Q3 2024.
Pinterest's Parenting Trend Report shows 'no phone summer' searches up 340%, which may push dating apps to add parenting-philosophy filters.
Ashley Madison says 57% of new 2025 sign-ups identified as single and is rebranding as a 'privacy-first dating service'.
Psychologists link a reported rise in young women attending Medieval Times to dating app burnout, though the evidence is largely anecdotal.
Two-thirds of Americans see financial literacy as attractive in a partner, rising to 76% of Gen Z, according to a survey commissioned by OKX.
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