Social and Dating Apps Landscape of the United States
1,908 Social and Dating Apps companies in the United States, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, where they are based and which skills employers want. Updated August 2026.
Who leads Social and Dating Apps in the United States
Shows the top companies by hiring activity, funding, and overall prominence among 1,908 tracked firms, highlighting which firms are currently hiring and which have disclosed financing.
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INEOS10last posted Jun 2026
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Reflex Media9last posted May 2026
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Togetherwork9last posted May 2026
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Zealot6last posted Jun 2026
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Deal Flow Xchange4last posted Jun 2026
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CitySwoon3last posted May 2026
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PsyTech3last posted Feb 2026
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Fiery2last posted Dec 2025
- 01X$9.2BPost IPO · Mar 2025
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Reddit$1.2BSeries F · Aug 2021
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Next Door$455.5MSeries F · May 2019
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Answers$387.5MPost IPO · Oct 2014
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Quora$301MSeries D · Jan 2024
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DeSo$200MSeries D · Oct 2022
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FANDOM$197.3MSeries E · Jun 2018
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Farcaster$180MSeries A · May 2024
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Meta$56.3BFY2026 filing
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Beetexting$393ksnapshot Dec 2022
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Fourplay Social$103snapshot Dec 2023
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JustAnswer1,000tracked employees
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Higher Logic310tracked employees
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Linden Lab213tracked employees
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Circle114tracked employees
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Bumble6.6%151 tracked events
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Grindr2.9%67 tracked events
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Hinge1.5%35 tracked events
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Schmooze0.7%16 tracked events
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See all 1,908 Social and Dating Apps companies in the United States
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How the Social and Dating Apps ecosystem in the United States grew, 2016–2025
Shows the number of companies founded each year, with a peak of 183 new firms in 2021 and only 12 in 2025.
Where Social and Dating Apps companies in the United States are based
Shows where the sector’s firms are concentrated, listing the cities with the most companies such as New York City (207) and San Francisco (199).
The Social and Dating Apps market map of the United States: what these companies actually do
Shows how companies split across product sub‑categories and revenue models, noting the largest groups like consumer digital (1,633) and the most common model, subscription (1,683).
The biggest kinds of Social and Dating Apps company, by how many we track.
- Consumer Digital1,633 companies · $14.5B raised · 26 hiring
- Loneliness Economy1,204 companies · $1.7B raised · 18 hiring
- Enterprise Tech339 companies · $10.7B raised · 11 hiring
- Enterprise Software206 companies · $553M raised · 8 hiring
- Gtm Software161 companies · $337.9M raised · 7 hiring
- SaaS157 companies · $430M raised · 7 hiring
- Web 3.0135 companies · $973.8M raised · 1 hiring
- Socialfi135 companies · $1.1B raised · 4 hiring
- Blockchain in Media and Entertainment132 companies · $331.6M raised · 3 hiring
- Fintech106 companies · $577.8M raised · 3 hiring
- B2C E-Commerce84 companies · $54.7M raised · 2 hiring
- Social Metaverse81 companies · $487.4M raised · 4 hiring
Monetization
How Social and Dating Apps companies make money
How many companies earn revenue each way. Plenty use more than one model, so the counts add up to more than the sector.
Funding, M&A and the deals moving Social and Dating Apps in the United States
Shows 961 corporate events over the past two years, broken down by type such as earnings (196) and key‑people announcements (149).
- FundingMeta Platforms is working with Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase on a roughly $13 billion financing package for a data center in El Paso, Texas.2026-05-05
- M&AMontage Gold Corp. is pleased to announce the successful completion of the acquisition of African Gold Limited.2026-04-29
- FundingSTORY3 Capital Partners, alongside certain other lenders, has closed a $475 million senior secured term loan facility for Bumble Inc.2026-04-28
- M&AOllie expanded into pet health screening in 2024 through its purchase of DIG Labs, a diagnostics group that uses artificial intelligence to provide health checks for pets.2026-02-09
- M&Ain 2022 acquired AI platform Spell2026-02-06
- FundingMerkle Manufactory will return the $180 million raised from venture capital investors.2026-01-23
- FundingIn 2024, Farcaster reached a reported valuation of $1,000 million after closing a $150 million Series A round.2026-01-23
- FundingStepOut raising $1.5 million to grow its sports-tech platform.2026-01-23
- FundingGrindr Inc. (NYSE: GRND), the Global Gayborhood in Your Pocket™, today announced that it amended, extended and upsized its syndicated revolving credit and term loan facility from $350 million to $600 million.2025-12-16
- M&ACircle, the world’s largest regulated stablecoin company powering global finance, has acquired team members and proprietary technology from Interop Labs, bringing the original developers behind the Axelar Network into its engineering organization.2025-12-16
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a Social and Dating Apps company in the United States was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
| Acquirer | Target | Deal value | Status | Date |
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| $2B | Terminated | 2026-05-04 | ||
| Assured Robot Intelligence | undisclosed | Completed | 2026-05-02 | |
| undisclosed | Completed | 2026-04-29 | ||
| $14B | Announced | 2026-04-15 | ||
| Impala Platinum | $900M | Completed | 2026-04-06 | |
| $60B | Announced | 2026-02-25 |
Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Shows detailed event types including IPO filings, leadership changes, product launches, and contract wins.
Match~13% of workforce reported · cost reductionAug 2025
- federal trade commission v Meta PlatformsFTC enforcement action for privacy violations · SettledApr 2026
- N, A v Meta Platformssocial media addiction and mental health risk concealment · OngoingApr 2026
Half of these companies grew revenue faster than +26.0%, half slower.
Who is building Social and Dating Apps in the United States
Shows 772 founders and CEOs across 545 firms, with common alma maters like Stanford (30) and frequent prior employers such as Microsoft (14).
Ex-Co-Founder Hipmunk, Image Matters · University of Virginia BS 2005
Ex-Founder Basis, Google. Princeton University BS 2013
Ex - Founder Wikia, Inc., Chair Emeritus and Board Member of the Wikimedia Foundation.Auburn University B.S., Finance 1989…
Ex-Co-Founder SoundFocus, Coinbase, Microsoft. Carnegie Mellon University BS 2010
Ex-Rackspace Technology, Barclays Investment Bank, Zephyr Management, Capgemini. Cornell University MEng, Harvard Business School MBA 2008
Ex-McLennan Design, HOK, NBBJ. California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo BS 2005, University of Washington MArch 2007
CEO Tyria Technology, Chengdu Tyria Technology. Xi'an University of Engineering Science and Technology 2009
Ex-Co-Founder Ning, Harmonic Communications, Goldman Sachs. Stanford University BA, Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA 2000
Ex-Founder Community Club, The Chunk.
- flagged as repeat founders19
- no repeat-founder flag678
- women155
- men531
Look up the people behind Social and Dating Apps companies in the United States
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Who funds Social and Dating Apps in the United States
Shows 379 funding rounds since 2016 from 714 investors, with a typical round size of $2.1 million.
| Investor · most active investors since 2016 | Rounds | Led | Latest |
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| Y Combinator | 17 | 9 | May 2026 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 13 | 10 | Jun 2025 |
| Techstars | 11 | 11 | Jan 2023 |
| Union Square Ventures | 9 | 1 | May 2026 |
| General Catalyst | 7 | 2 | May 2026 |
| 500 Global | 6 | 2 | Jul 2019 |
| Gaingels | 5 | 3 | Oct 2023 |
| Precursor Ventures | 5 | 2 | Feb 2024 |
| Coinbase | 5 | 1 | Oct 2022 |
| Alumni Ventures | 5 | 1 | Apr 2025 |
The typical round is $2.1M — half were bigger, half smaller.
The biggest Social and Dating Apps funding rounds in the United States
Shows the biggest disclosed funding rounds, including Reddit’s $410 million Series F, and lists ten large recent rounds.
| Company | Round | Size | When | Backers |
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| Series Fmega-round | $410M | Aug 2021 | Fidelity Investments | |
| X | Series Gmega-round | $400M | Sep 2011 | DST Global, Lowercase Capital, T. Rowe Price |
| X | Angelmega-round | $300M | Dec 2011 | Bin Talal |
| Series Dmega-round | $300M | Feb 2019 | Tencent | |
| Series Emega-round | $250M | Feb 2021 | — | |
| X | Series E | $200M | Dec 2010 | Kleiner Perkins |
| Series D | $200M | Oct 2022 | Sequoia Capital, Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz +1 more | |
| Series C | $200M | Jul 2017 | Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Sam Altman +4 more | |
| Series F | $170M | May 2019 | Riverwood Capital, Benchmark, Tiger Global Management +2 more | |
| Series A | $150M | May 2024 | Paradigm, Haun Ventures, Union Square Ventures +3 more |
83 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.
Series AundisclosedMay 2026
Series D$100MApr 2026
Social and Dating Apps jobs in the United States: who is hiring and what they ask for
Shows 4,825 job postings from 156 employers in the last year, highlighting top skills and a median advertised salary of $130 k per year.
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What Social and Dating Apps employers in the United States put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.
- python101▲
- salesforce78▲
- typescript73▲
- react63▲
- excel62▲
- terraform45▲
- sql44▲
- aws41▲
- c++37▲
- slack36▲
- Manager$178k/yr (n=68)
- Senior$138k/yr (n=52)
- Lead$217k/yr (n=39)
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