About company
Bumble operates two apps, Bumble and Badoo, where over 40 million users come on a monthly basis to discover new people and connect with each other in a safe, secure and empowering environment. They are a leader in the fast-growing online dating space, which has become increasingly popular over the last decade and is now the most common way for new couples to meet in the US. Their community is highly engaged with, on average, over 150 million messages sent every day in the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The Bumble app, launched in 2014, is one of the first dating apps built with women at the center. On Bumble, women make the first move, and have done so more than 1.7 billion times from September 2014 to September 2020. Bumble is the second highest grossing dating app in the world, with 12.3 million MAUs as of September 30, 2020. Bumble is a leader in the online dating sector across several countries, including the US, UK, Australia and Canada. The Badoo app launched in 2006 and is the fourth highest grossing dating app in the world, with 28.4 million MAUs as of September 30, 2020. Badoo continues to be a market leader in Europe and Latin America and is diversified across geographies.
Industry
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Prepackaged Software
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CEO
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CFO
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Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Anuradha B. Subramanian
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Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder of Bumble and has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since January 2020. Prior to founding Bumble in 2014, Ms. Wolfe Herd was a co-founder of Tinder, a dating application, where she served as Vice President of Marketing from May 2012 to April 2014. Currently, Ms. Wolfe Herd serves on the board of directors of Imagine Entertainment as well as the Executive Board at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, where she graduated with a B.A. in International Studies.
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Anuradha B. Subramanian has served as our Chief Financial Officer since September 2020. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Subramanian served as Chief Financial Officer, Digital at Univision Communications Inc. from February 2018 to September 2020. Prior to that, Ms. Subramanian served as Chief Financial Officer, Digital at VICE Media during 2017. Prior to that, Ms. Subramanian served in various roles at Scripps Networks Interactive from August 2010 to January 2017, including most recently as the Head of Finance, Digital. Prior to Scripps Networks, Ms. Subramanian worked in investment banking at Citi as part of the Media and Telecom group. Ms. Subramanian began her career at Ernst & Young in the assurance division. Ms. Subramanian holds an M.B.A from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from Delhi University and is a Chartered Accountant in India.
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Employees
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Founded
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650
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2006
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