Who owns Badoo?
Badoo is owned by Bumble (the United States, NASDAQ: BMBL).[1]
Evidence: Bumble Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-16, SEC EDGAR, 16 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Bumble Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Austin
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Founded
- 2006
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Dating apps
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: BMBL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Badoo
Badoo is the dating and social app Bumble Inc. describes as one of the pioneers of free-to-use web and mobile dating products, launched in 2006. A member can message anyone without a mutual match. It sells Badoo Premium and Badoo Extra subscriptions and Badoo Credits as in-app purchases, and its main markets are in Europe and Latin America. Its 2025 paying users of roughly 1.2 million are reported combined with other smaller products, and Badoo-named subsidiaries appear in the filing in the United Kingdom and Cyprus.
What Bumble's annual report says about Badoo
Sentences about Badoo from Bumble's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Our key metrics (Bumble App Paying Users, Badoo App and Other Paying Users, Total Paying Users, Bumble App Average Revenue per Paying User, Badoo App and Other Average Revenue per Paying User, and Total Average Revenue per Paying User) were calculated excluding paying users and revenue generated from Official, advertising and partnerships or affiliates.
We calculate Badoo App and Other Paying Users as a monthly average, by counting the number of Badoo App and Other Paying Users in each month and then dividing by the number of months in the relevant measurement period.
Badoo app, launched in 2006, was one of the pioneers of web and mobile free-to-use dating products.
How often Bumble names Badoo in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Badoo
Where Badoo sits in Bumble
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Bumble
Bumble controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in dating apps, and who owns them
The 20 brands in dating apps on Brandtree belong to 6 owners. The largest is ParshipMeet, with 8; Bumble has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| eharmony | ParshipMeet | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Hinge | Match Group | 🇺🇸 United States |
| happn | Hello Group | 🇨🇳 China |
| Grindr | Grindr Inc. | 🇺🇸 United States |
| VK Dating | VK | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| ElitePartner | ParshipMeet | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| GROWLr | ParshipMeet | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| LOVOO | ParshipMeet | 🇩🇪 Germany |
About the owner: Bumble
Bumble is a publicly listed company headquartered in Austin, United States. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: BMBL.
Bumble Inc. is the Austin, Texas company behind the Bumble, Badoo and BFF apps. It was incorporated in Delaware on 5 October 2020, and its 10-K says investment funds managed by Blackstone acquired a majority stake in the predecessor company on 29 January 2020 and remain a principal stockholder. In 2025 the Bumble App had about 2.4 million paying users and the Badoo App and other products about 1.2 million. Fruitz was sold to a third party in July 2025 and Official was shut down in May 2025, so neither is part of the group any longer.
🇬🇧 Badoo and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 543 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 282 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Badoo among them.
- BMC — Springer Nature 🇩🇪
- Depop — eBay 🇺🇸
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Britannica 🇺🇸
- Farfetch — Coupang 🇺🇸
- Fasthosts — IONOS 🇩🇪
- Football Manager — Sega Sammy 🇯🇵
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Badoo?
The parent company of Badoo is Bumble, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Badoo British or American?
Badoo originated in the United Kingdom in 2006, but it is owned today by Bumble, which is headquartered in the United States. So Badoo is a British-origin brand under American ownership.
Is Badoo still owned by Bumble?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Badoo is still owned by Bumble. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Bumble Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-16 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 16 March 2026; retrieved 2 October 2026.
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