# Renate Nyborg

> Renate Nyborg is the founder and CEO of Meeno, a generative-AI app teaching people - mostly young men - how to build real relationships, which she frames as a fight against loneliness she rates 'on par with climate change.' She was the first woman to run Tinder and previously led Apple's App Store subscriptions in Europe and built Headspace's first international product and marketing org. Half Norwegian, half Dutch, raised across four countries and fluent in five languages, she studied philosophy at Cambridge in her third language. Meeno has raised about $5 million from Sequoia, Andrew Ng's AI Fund and NEA, and has pivoted from text advice toward voice-based practice scenarios it calls the 'Duolingo of dating.'

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Meeno
- **Organizations:** Meeno, Tinder, Apple, Headspace, Edelman, Twestival, Pleo (app studio)
- **From:** Sandnes, Norway
- **Nationality:** Norwegian-Dutch
- **Education:** Philosophy, University of Cambridge
- **Known for:** First female CEO in Tinder's history (2021)., Led Apple's App Store subscription business across Europe for over four years., Built Headspace's first international product and marketing organization.

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Founding member of Twestival, a Twitter-powered fundraising movement that raised nearly $2 million for nonprofits across 150 cities.
- **early career** — Became Edelman's first-ever Global Director of Mobile; later founded Pleo, an app design and development studio.
- **~2013-2017** — Spent over four years at Apple, leading the App Store subscription business across Europe.
- **~2019** — Joined Headspace, building its first international product and marketing organization.
- **2020** — Joined Tinder as General Manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa.
- **2021** — Named CEO of Tinder - the first woman to lead the company.
- **2022** — Left Tinder in August following management changes after Bernard Kim became Match Group CEO.
- **2022** — Founded Meeno (initially named Amorai) in November to fight loneliness.
- **2023** — Raised a $3.9M seed round led by Sequoia, with Andrew Ng's AI Fund and NEA; total raised reached about $5M.
- **2023-2024** — Launched Meeno as an AI relationship-mentoring app; grew to roughly 100,000 users, over half of them men; expanded to Holland and the Nordics.
- **2025** — Pivoted Meeno from text advice to voice-based AI practice scenarios, positioning it as the 'Duolingo of dating'; raised a $2.7M seed extension.

## Achievements

- First female CEO in Tinder's history (2021).
- Led Apple's App Store subscription business across Europe for over four years.
- Built Headspace's first international product and marketing organization.
- Raised about $5 million for Meeno from Sequoia Capital, Andrew Ng's AI Fund and NEA.
- Grew Meeno to roughly 100,000 users, a majority of them men.
- Founding member of Twestival, which raised nearly $2 million for charity via Twitter.

## Latest updates

- **2025** — Meeno pivoted from a text advice chatbot to voice-based AI practice scenarios and a web-first product, branding itself the 'Duolingo of dating' and raising a $2.7M seed extension.
- **2026-04** — Listed as a speaker at HumanX 2026 in San Francisco.

## Links

- Website: https://meeno.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renatenyborg/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/renate
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyborgcyborg/

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Last updated: 2026-06-21