Meetic is owned by Match Group (the United States, NASDAQ: MTCH), which acquired the brand on 1 June 2011.[1][2] Meetic was founded in 2001 in Paris and was independent until 2011.
Evidence: Match Group, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26, SEC EDGAR, 26 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Meetic is the largest dating service in continental Europe, founded in Paris in 2001 and operating across France, Spain, Italy and Germany. Match Group took control in 2011, giving it the European position it lacked. It was founded by a French entrepreneur who later sold his stake, and it continues to operate under local brand names in several of the European markets where it leads.
Sentences about Meetic from Match Group's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Meetic is the most recognized dating app for singles over age 35 in France.
Meetic is a brand that focuses on users with a higher level of intent to enter into a serious relationship and its service and marketing are designed to reinforce that purpose. 6 Table of Contents OkCupid launched in 2004 and has attracted users through a Q&A approach to the dating category.
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.
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 322 brands that began in France. 100 of them (31%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Meetic among them.
Match took control of Meetic, the largest dating service in continental Europe, through a public tender offer for the French company. It gave the group the European position its American brands had never built, and Meetic still trades under its own name across France, Spain and Italy.
The parent company of Meetic is Match Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Meetic originated in France in 2001, but it is owned today by Match Group, which is headquartered in the United States. So Meetic is a French-origin brand under American ownership.
Match Group completed its acquisition of Meetic on 1 June 2011, after announcing the deal on 19 April 2011. The price was not disclosed.
Meetic was an independent company from its founding in 2001 in Paris until Match Group acquired it in 2011.
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Meetic 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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