Exit / M&A
Company
Tinder
Funding history
Investors
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Tinder raised.
What Tinder bought
Companies Tinder acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
People
Coverage
Stories naming Tinder. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
13 deals
Six ANZ startups that raised $211.1 million this week
Roundup of six Australian and New Zealand funding rounds, headlined by Heidi Health and Octopus Deploy, also covering Nexl, OpenSolar, Lucent and PAM, with past acquisitions of Stella AI, MagicBrief and Codefresh noted.
Funding announcement
Sunroom Co-Founder Michelle Battersby on knowing your strengths and the power of intuition
Interview with Sunroom co-founder Michelle Battersby on her path from Citibank and Bumble to Kic and Sunroom; Blackbird partner Nick Crocker recalls backing the company.
Funding announcement
Sunroom Co-Founder Michelle Battersby on knowing your strengths and the power of intuition
Interview with Sunroom co-founder Michelle Battersby on her path from Bumble's first Australian employee and Kic CMO to founding the creator platform, plus investor Nick Crocker on backing the team.
3 deals
Clinical trials startup HealthMatch lands $10 million Series C
Sydney clinical trials platform HealthMatch raised a $10 million Series C led by Folklore Ventures with Square Peg participating, after laying off half its staff in June; funds will support rehiring and US expansion.
Also SmartCompany·Techboard
Seed
$19m
Investment Notes: Voyantis $19m Seed
Square Peg's investment note explains why it co-led predictive growth platform Voyantis' $19 million seed round with Target Global, covering the founders' backgrounds and the market shift toward predicting customer lifetime value.
Series A
$29m
Winklevoss twins and global decacorn invest in Volopay's $29M Series A
Singapore-based spend management startup Volopay has raised a $29 million Series A mixing equity and debt, led by Justin Mateen's JAM Fund, with several other backers joining, to fund expansion into APAC and MENA markets.
Also Australian FinTech
4 deals
Mosh raises $25 million to break down taboos in men's healthcare
Australian men's health startup Mosh has secured $25 million in fresh capital from Hims co-founder Joe Spector, Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Regal Funds Management, with existing backers Parc Capital and Thorney also participating.
Also Startup Daily
News
Innovative Experience & Dating Platform with Former Tinder/Uber Advisors | 100+ B2B Partners
Wholesale Investor profiles UMEGO, a platform pairing shared-interest experiences with dating and friend-matching, citing 100-plus B2B partners and advisors formerly at Tinder and Uber, plus an investment offering.
Exit / M&A
Romance is big business: Bumble's Valentine's weekend IPO makes a billionaire of founder Whitney Wolfe Herd
Bumble's IPO valued the US dating app at US$13 billion, making co-founder Whitney Wolfe Herd a billionaire; the piece also recounts Bumble's history and its 2019 majority-stake sale to Blackstone.
Also SmartCompany
Exit / M&A
Bumble's IPO makes Whitney Wolfe Herd a billionaire, and youngest woman to take a tech unicorn public
Bumble's multibillion-dollar IPO makes co-founder Whitney Wolfe Herd a billionaire. The piece recaps the company's origins, its 2019 Blackstone majority-stake deal, and Match Group's announced acquisition of Hyperconnect.
Exit / M&A
Whitney Wolfe Herd becomes youngest woman to take tech unicorn public
Bumble's founder has listed the dating app on Nasdaq, becoming the youngest woman to take a tech unicorn public; the piece recalls Blackstone's 2019 majority purchase and details payouts around the offering.
3 deals
Your 90-second guide to the day in tech
Morning roundup covering US pressure over Australia's news bargaining laws, Deliveroo's big raise, Volopay's seed round before its Australian launch, AgriWebb's Series B, plus crypto and Samsung briefs.
Also Australian FinTech
Seed
$430k
Fitfam Findr becomes Fitafy, raises $430K
An interview with the founders of Fitafy, a Perth dating app for active people, covering its $430,000 seed round, its origins as an Instagram joke, and its rebrand from Fitfam Findr.
Bridge / extension
$1m
Mosh raises $1 million, including from Tinder co-founders, for tech tackling men's health taboos
Sydney men's health startup Mosh has raised $1 million in a bridging round backed by Parc Capital and Tinder's co-founders, as it expands into sexual health, skincare and mental health products.
Also SmartCompany