OkCupid is owned by Match Group (the United States, NASDAQ: MTCH), which acquired the brand on 2 February 2011 for $50 million.[1][2] OkCupid was founded in 2004 in the United States 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 .
OkCupid was founded in 2004 by Harvard mathematics graduates and matched people using answers to a long questionnaire. Its blog analysing its own data was widely read, and it was acquired by IAC in 2011 for about $50 million. Match Group now owns it, so a service built to differentiate itself from Match.com is run by the same company, which is true of most of the apps people switch between.
Sentences about OkCupid from Match Group's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
OkCupid relies on a freemium model and has a loyal, culturally progressive user base predominately located in larger metropolitan areas in English-speaking markets.
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; OkCupid is not one of them.
IAC acquired OkCupid for about $50 million and placed it alongside Match.com. OkCupid had built its audience on a long compatibility questionnaire and on a blog that analysed its own users' data, and it was free when Match.com charged a subscription.
The parent company of OkCupid is Match Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. OkCupid originated in the United States in 2004 and its owner, Match Group, is also headquartered in the United States.
Match Group completed its acquisition of OkCupid on 2 February 2011, after announcing the deal on 2 February 2011. The deal was valued at $50 million.
OkCupid was an independent company from its founding in 2004 until Match Group acquired it in 2011.
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, OkCupid 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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