Who owns Momo?
Momo is owned by Hello Group (China, NASDAQ: MOMO).[1]
Evidence: Hello Group Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-28, SEC EDGAR, 28 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Hello Group Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Beijing
- Origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- Founded
- 2011
- Category
- Internet & digital › Search & social › Social networks
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: MOMO
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Momo
Location-based mobile video social app launched in 2011 and the product the group was originally named after. Hello Group describes it as connecting users through location-aware discovery and video-driven interactions. It is the flagship of a company that went public on NASDAQ in December 2014 and now calls itself Hello Group.
What Hello Group's annual report says about Momo
Sentences about Momo from Hello Group's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
The user bases of our Momo and Tantan apps have decreased in the past.
Ownership timeline of Momo
- Current owner Hello Group [1] verified
Where Momo sits in Hello Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Hello Group
Hello Group controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in social networks, and who owns them
The 19 brands in social networks on Brandtree belong to 14 owners. The largest is Meta, with 3; Hello Group has 2.
About the owner: Hello Group
Hello Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Beijing, China, founded in 2011. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: MOMO.
Cayman Islands holding company, formerly Momo Inc., that runs social and dating apps, with its mainland China operations held through variable interest entities. Its own brands page lists Momo and Tantan alongside happn and Coffee Meets Bagel. Coffee Meets Bagel is not recorded here because the page gives no country of origin for it.
🇨🇳 Momo and other Chinese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 319 brands that began in China. 39 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Momo is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Momo?
The parent company of Momo is Hello Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is Momo Chinese?
Yes. Momo originated in China in 2011 and its owner, Hello Group, is also headquartered in China.
Is Momo still owned by Hello Group?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Momo is still owned by Hello Group. 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] Hello Group Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-28 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 28 April 2026; retrieved 3 October 2026.
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