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THE THE UNITED STATES EDITION 2026

the United States’s
social and dating apps industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping social and dating apps in the United States. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

Snapshot: Funding in USD
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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

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MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore the United States’s social and dating apps leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Social and Dating Apps company highlights in the United States, snapshot 30 August 2026
Company
Xx.com$9.24B
Redditredditinc.com$1.21B2,013$2.2BFYFY2025 filing
Next Doornextdoor.com$455.51M594$257.65MFYFY2025 filing
Answersanswers.com$387.51M20
Quoraquora.com$301M211
DeSodeso.com$200M1
FANDOMfandom.com$197.34M199
Farcasterfarcaster.xyz$180M
INEOStheineosforum.com10 roles
Reflex Mediareflexmedia.com9 roles55
Togetherworktogetherwork.com9 roles452
Zealotzealot.com6 roles
Deal Flow Xchangedealflowxchange.com4 roles
CitySwooncityswoon.com3 roles6
PsyTechpsytech.ai3 roles
Fieryfieryapp.com2 roles
Adam4Adamadam4adam.com
Beetextingbeetexting.comFinancial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Bumblebumble.com380$965.66MFYFY2025 filing
BuzzArabbuzzarab.com
Circlecircle.so114
Fourplay Socialfourplaysocial.com8Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Grindrgrindr.com42$439.9MFYFY2025 filing
Higher Logichigherlogic.com310
24 featured companies

Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Social and Dating Apps industry KPIs in the United States

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

30 August 2026
Hiring participation1.8%

35 of 1,908 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation17.0%

325 of 1,908 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share71.1%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$2.1M

Midpoint of 316 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 71.1% of disclosed capital, while 83.0% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How the United States social and dating apps has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

the United States social and dating apps
$0$1.02B$2.04B$3.06B$4.08B2016: $123.43M20162017: $401.73M20172018: $186.88M20182019: $507.41M20192020: $1.16B20202021: $2.35B20212022: $3.58B20222023: $234.15M20232024: $575.23M20242025: $1.17B2025
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Annual social and dating apps funding and company formation in the United States
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$123.43M11321
2017$401.73M10122
2018$186.88M10815
2019$507.41M14020
2020$1.16B14927
2021$2.35B18341
2022$3.58B15647
2023$234.15M10140
2024$575.23M5828
2025$1.17B1215
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • X60.2%
  • Reddit7.9%
  • Next Door3.0%
  • Other companies28.9%

Funding by stage

379 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel233 61.5%
Series A–B82 21.6%
Series C+ / PE27 7.1%
Grants, debt & other37 9.8%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Series A05/2026
Status

Backed by Abstract and General Catalyst and others.

Seed05/2026
Status

Backed by Abstract and General Catalyst and others.

Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
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Series G09/2011
Xx.com$400M

Backed by DST Global and Lowercase Capital and others.

Angel12/2011
Xx.com$300M

Backed by Bin Talal.

Series E12/2010
Xx.com$200M

Backed by Kleiner Perkins.

Series D10/2022
DeSodeso.com$200M

Backed by Sequoia Capital and Coinbase and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.

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USD · millions · consolidated

Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.

FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 4 reporting entities from 5 eligible matches.

Revenue in covered accounts

Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not the United States market sales.

Net profit / loss

Combined result for the same cohort.

Aggregate net margin

Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.

Median company revenue

The middle covered reporting entity.

Profitable entities

None of 4 covered entities.

Top-five concentration

Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.

Annual account trend

Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.

Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.

Profitability has two perspectives

FY2025 · 4 reporting entities

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THE UNITED STATES · INDUSTRY COHORTS

How does social and dating apps compare?

Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.

IndustryCovered / eligibleRevenue totalMedian revenueNet profit / lossAggregate marginProfitable shareOverlap

Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.

Coverage, calculations & financial sources

Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.

The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.

Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the the United States companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

91 of the 1,908 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (4.8%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 637,463 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
FANDOMfandom.com1,190,383,0119971.3%
Quoraquora.com320,957,32610078.2%
Tumblrtumblr.com162,000,2452658.4%
Next Doornextdoor.com136,990,4447371.4%
Bskybsky.app121,791,6377954%
Sniffiessniffies.com58,352,2036291.2%
Metameta.com57,417,7869071.8%
Skoolskool.com39,233,4175034.8%
JustAnswerjustanswer.com37,005,0918374.7%
Stack Overflowstackoverflow.com36,832,3688417%

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

328 of these companies (17.2%) publish at least one Android app — 447 apps in all, carrying 1.2B installs between them.

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q1–2026Q2).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Matchmaking259839.1MBumble Dating App: Meet & Date 120.2M
Social Platforms127422.1MTumblr: Social Media & Art 149.4M
Digital Publishing Platforms79233.2MQuora: the knowledge platform 64.6M
Communication Apps282.5MSkout - Meet, Chat, Go Live 82.4M
Internet First Media270.3MNextdoor: Neighborhood Network 35.2M
Metaverse953.9MMeta Horizon 27.6M
Online Mom & Baby Care237.2MPregnancy App & Baby Tracker 35.1M
Virtual Reality431MVRChat 2M

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2023Q2: 152023Q2: 22023Q22023Q3: 92023Q3: 102023Q32023Q4: 112023Q4: 42023Q42024Q1: 52024Q1: 52024Q12024Q2: 102024Q2: 62024Q22024Q3: 82024Q3: 122024Q32024Q4: 82024Q4: 142024Q42025Q1: 102025Q1: 102025Q12025Q2: 112025Q2: 132025Q22025Q3: 42025Q3: 462025Q32025Q4: 52025Q4: 502025Q42026Q1: 142026Q1: 512026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 434 of 447 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The the United States social and dating apps market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Consumer digital1,633
Loneliness economy1,204
Enterprise tech339
Enterprise software206
Gtm software161
Saas157
Web 3.0135
Socialfi135
Blockchain in media and entertainment132
Fintech106
B2c e-commerce84
Social metaverse81

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Consumer digital

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

1633companies
1.6%have hiring activity

26 companies hiring · $14.48B disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

Subscription1,683
Commission on transaction802
Advertising760
E-commerce - service340
Freemium118
Fee-for-service47
Sponsorship29
E-commerce - product23
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 10 dated reports
Funding roundsmeta.com ↗

Meta Platforms is working with Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase on a roughly $13 billion financing package for a data center in El Paso, Texas.

Mergers & acquisitionsgotafrican.com ↗

Montage Gold Corp. is pleased to announce the successful completion of the acquisition of African Gold Limited.

Funding roundsbumble.com ↗

STORY3 Capital Partners, alongside certain other lenders, has closed a $475 million senior secured term loan facility for Bumble Inc.

Mergers & acquisitionsdiglabs.ai ↗

Ollie 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.

Funding roundsmerklemanufactory.com ↗

Merkle Manufactory will return the $180 million raised from venture capital investors.

Funding roundsfarcaster.xyz ↗

In 2024, Farcaster reached a reported valuation of $1,000 million after closing a $150 million Series A round.

Funding roundsstepout.com ↗

StepOut raising $1.5 million to grow its sports-tech platform.

Funding roundsgrindr.com ↗

Grindr 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.

Mergers & acquisitionscircle.so ↗

Circle, 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.

Full recorded event mix

Top 10 categories among 961 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Earnings
196
Leadership moves
149
Lawsuit
107
Contracts
93
New products
79
Mergers & acquisitions
78
Regulatory
63
Company announcements
53
Layoffs
40
Funding rounds
36
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IPO pipeline

7 companies with recorded IPO activity

Circle ↗

IPO · New York Stock Exchange22 reports

Bumble ↗

IPO1 reports

Reddit ↗

IPO · NYSE5 reports

Grindr ↗

IPO · NYSE2 reports

Meta ↗

IPO · NASDAQ3 reports

Lens ↗

IPO · Hong Kong Stock Exchange1 reports

BLK ↗

IPO1 reports

Leadership moves

47 tracked people moves

Grindr ↗
Rob Solomon

Appointment Director

Grindr ↗
Fadi Hanna

Appointment Director

Grindr ↗
Lisa Gersh

Appointment Director

Reddit ↗
Allison Day

Promotion Executive and Digital Communications Lead

Reddit ↗
Adam Collins

Appointment Chief Communications Officer

Reddit ↗
Natalie Maguire

Appointment Global Head of B2B Communications

Meta ↗
Peter Hoeschele

Appointment

Meta ↗
Shamez Hemani

Appointment

Product launches

Products, platforms and features in the recorded window

Meta ↗
AI‑Powered Digital Mark Zuckerberg Avatar

Virtual Human / Digital Assistant

Meta ↗
Model Ability Initiative

Internal Tracking Software

Bumble ↗
Video Profiles and Verification Process

Online Dating App

Grindr ↗
Smart Inbox

Messaging

Bumble ↗
Bee

AI Matchmaking Assistant

Grindr ↗
Health Center

Health & Wellness

Hinge ↗
Face Check

Facial Recognition Verification

Hinge ↗
Direct to Date

User Intent Clarification

Contract wins

14 recorded customer wins

Meta ↗

Customer: coreweaveAI computing services

Meta ↗

Customer: openaiTechnology

African ↗

Customer: Federal GovernmentMining

Reddit ↗

Customer: alphabetTechnology

Reddit ↗

Customer: openaiTechnology

Vishwakarma ↗

Customer: government of arunachal pradesh

Workforce actions

7 companies with reported reductions

Meta ↗

7,800 rolescost reduction

Circle ↗

65 rolescost reduction

Bumble ↗

240 rolescost reduction

Match ↗

13.0% rolescost reduction

Next Door ↗

67 rolesprofitability

Grindr ↗

Scale not stated rolesaccessibility concerns

Regulatory events

83 recorded events

Meta ↗

Investigation commencedEuropean Commission

Meta ↗

unwind acquisitionChina’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)

Meta ↗

unwind of acquisitionChina’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)

Meta ↗

acquisition banned and rescindedChina’s National Development and Reform Commission

Litigation

30 tracked suits

Company
federal trade commission v Meta Platforms

FTC enforcement action for privacy violationsRegulatory · Settled

Company
N, A v Meta Platforms

social media addiction and mental health risk concealmentCivil · Ongoing

Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

7companies
219period observations
26.0%median reported growth

Median across 205 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
MetamanusTerminated2026-05-04$2.0B
MetaAssured Robot IntelligenceCompleted2026-05-02Not stated in snapshot
montage goldAfrican ↗Completed2026-04-29Not stated in snapshot
Metascale aiAnnounced2026-04-15$14.0B
Impala PlatinumAfrican ↗Completed2026-04-06$900.0M
MetaAdvanced Micro DevicesAnnounced2026-02-25$60.0B

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

4,825 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 6,543-posting snapshot covers 156 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Financial Consultant191
Virtual Assistant (Work From Home)77
Product Designer72
Content Designer62
Retirement Consultant55
Security Engineer42
4 internship postings

186 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

2,285 postings specify a level.

unspecified
4,258
manager
1,230
senior
680
lead
285
intern
48
entry
42

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 6,543 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Python
101
Salesforce
78
Typescript
73
React
63
Excel
62
Terraform
45
Sql
44
Aws
41
C++
37
Slack
36
ADVERTISED PAY$130.0K/ year

Median across 386 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

Salary by seniority

manager$178.0K/ year68 postings
senior$138.4K/ year52 postings
lead$217.2K/ year39 postings

Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

772 founders and chief executives across 545 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

140 profiles with education records.

Stanford University
30
Harvard University
21
Harvard Business School
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12
Columbia University
12
University of California (Berkeley)
11
Stanford Business School
9
Cornell University
7

Prior employers

64 profiles with prior-work records.

Microsoft
14
Facebook
13
Google
11
Amazon
10
Apple
5
Goldman Sachs
5
Morgan Stanley
5
Salesforce
3

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINT

Where companies are based

Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.

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8 cards

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UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Social and Dating Apps in the United States: key questions

Clear definitions for making better comparisons.

What does this landscape measure?

It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.

Can segment counts be added together?

No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.

What does a missing figure mean?

A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.

Company ecosystem snapshot: 30 August 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.

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