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Tinder
Dating · West Hollywood, United States · Founded 2012 Decacorn
App for connecting with new and interesting people
Tinder mafia
Startups founded by Tinder alumni
Former Tinder employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Ankur Jain.United States
Edouard GaussenUnited States
Brexton PhamUnited States
Maria ZhangUnited States
Ruben MiessenBelgium
Kasumi Nagata OnozawaJapan
Drew WilliamsUnited States
Scott HurffUnited States
Whitney Wolfe HerdUnited States
Christopher GulczynskiUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Tinder has talent and traffic
(41 of 1,046 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$3M patent portfolio · 8 active families
Where Tinder concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Tinder and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Tinder's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Tinder appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2015–2017. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
4 deals across Tinder's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Tinder deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Tinder's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Tinder
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Tinder on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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