# Bumble Inc.

> Bumble Inc. is the Austin-based public company behind Bumble, Badoo and BFF. Its apps use a freemium model to help people date, make friends and build communities, with paid subscriptions and in-app purchases layered over free matching and messaging. Founded around a women-centered approach to online dating, Bumble now faces a harder assignment: restore trust and user momentum while remaking its core app on an AI-enabled platform.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** Austin, United States
- **Founders:** Whitney Wolfe Herd (Founder and CEO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 580 employees in supplied company data; Bumble announced about 240 role reductions, roughly 30% of its workforce, in June 2025.
- **Products:** Bumble, Badoo, BFF
- **Notable:** Built one of the first major dating apps with women at the center of heterosexual conversation initiation., Completed a $2.5 billion initial public offering in February 2021 and listed on Nasdaq as BMBL., Developed Private Detector technology to detect and blur potentially explicit images.

## Products & services

- **Bumble** — A women-centered dating app with free matching and messaging plus premium subscriptions and in-app purchases; features include Opening Moves, Discover, ID Verification, Share Date and video or voice calling.
- **Badoo** — A broad, global dating and social discovery app with particular strength in parts of Europe and Latin America, monetized through subscriptions and in-app purchases.
- **BFF** — A standalone friendship app for finding friends, group connections and communities, relaunched in the United States using technology acquired with Geneva.

## Achievements

- Built one of the first major dating apps with women at the center of heterosexual conversation initiation.
- Completed a $2.5 billion initial public offering in February 2021 and listed on Nasdaq as BMBL.
- Developed Private Detector technology to detect and blur potentially explicit images.
- Expanded from dating into friendship and community-building through BFF and the Geneva acquisition.
- Reported 3.17 million total paying users and $212.4 million in revenue in Q1 2026.
- Increased Q1 2026 total average revenue per paying user by 8.9% year over year to $22.04 while undertaking a member-base reset.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Bumble reported Q1 revenue of $212.4 million, 3.17 million paying users and an 8.9% year-over-year increase in total ARPPU; it said a rebuilt, AI-enabled Bumble experience would launch later in 2026.
- **2026-04** — The company refinanced its term debt with a new $475 million secured loan and replaced its revolving facility with a $50 million line, extending maturities to 2030.
- **2026-03** — Bumble reported 2025 revenue of about $965.7 million and said the intensive phase of its member-base reset was complete.
- **2026-03** — The company introduced Suggest a Date and other product changes aimed at moving matches toward offline meetings with more clarity.
- **2025-09** — Bumble relaunched its friendship product as BFF in the United States, incorporating community-building capabilities associated with Geneva.
- **2025-07** — Bumble sold Fruitz after deciding to concentrate resources on its core portfolio; Official was also shut down during 2025.
- **2025-06** — Bumble announced a restructuring affecting about 240 roles, or roughly 30% of its global workforce, with expected annual savings of about $40 million.
- **2025-03** — Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returned as CEO after serving as executive chair.

## Links

- Website: https://bumble.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bumbleinc
- Twitter/X: https://www.twitter.com/bumble
- GitHub: https://github.com/bumble-tech
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bumble
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bumble/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bumbleapp
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bumble

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Last updated: 2026-08-13