Hinge is owned by Match Group (the United States, NASDAQ: MTCH), which acquired the brand on 1 February 2019.[1][2] Hinge was founded in 2012 in New York, New York and was independent until 2019.
Evidence: Match Group, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26, SEC EDGAR, 26 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Hinge relaunched in 2016 around prompts and photographs rather than swiping, marketing itself as the app designed to be deleted. Match Group took full ownership in 2019, and it has grown faster than any other brand in the group since.
Sentences about Hinge from Match Group's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Hinge launched in 2012 and has grown to be a popular app for individuals seeking intentional and relationship-oriented connections in English speaking countries and several other international markets.
Hinge is Designed to be Deleted and focuses on users with a higher level of intent to enter into a relationship and its services are designed to reinforce that purpose.
Hinge has Video and Voice Prompts, and Voice Notes, in addition to AI-enabled features, which allow users to better showcase who they are at different points in their dating journey.
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 more often than it was three years earlier.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Match Group controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in internet & digital.
The 20 brands in dating apps on Brandtree belong to 6 owners. The largest is ParshipMeet, with 8; Match Group has 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| eharmony | ParshipMeet | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Badoo | Bumble | 🇺🇸 United States |
| happn | Hello Group | 🇨🇳 China |
| Grindr | Grindr Inc. | 🇺🇸 United States |
| VK Dating | VK | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| ElitePartner | ParshipMeet | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| GROWLr | ParshipMeet | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| LOVOO | ParshipMeet | 🇩🇪 Germany |
Match Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, founded in 1995. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: MTCH.
Match Group owns most of the large dating apps in the western world, which means the apps people switch between when one is not working generally belong to the same company. It was built inside IAC and fully separated from it in 2020.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Hinge is not one of them.
Match Group took full ownership of Hinge, having bought a majority the previous year. Hinge had positioned itself explicitly against the swiping model of its new owner's largest brand, and has since grown faster than any other app in the group.
The parent company of Hinge is Match Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Hinge originated in the United States in 2012 and its owner, Match Group, is also headquartered in the United States.
Match Group completed its acquisition of Hinge on 1 February 2019, after announcing the deal on 21 June 2018. The price was not disclosed.
Hinge was an independent company from its founding in 2012 in New York, New York until Match Group acquired it in 2019.
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Hinge is still owned by Match Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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