NYPOST – Aug 2 – 3nder, the kinky app catering to threesomes, will change its name amid a trademark dispute. Dogged by a lawsuit from a Tinder filed this spring, British-based 3nder will change its name to "Feeld." Feeld has seen downloads grow 65% year-to-date compared with last year, to reach a total of 1.57M.
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NYPOST – Mar 1 – The French-based mobile app boasts 13M registered users, up from 10M two months ago. CEO Didier Rappaport said he expects the momentum to continue this year. Rappaport is in New York this week visiting top venture funds about a Series C investing round expected to close in July. So far, Happn has raised $22M. New York City is now Happn's largest US market.
NYPOST – Jan 29 – Millennials are getting promiscuous with their dating apps. "Tinder was the first mobile dating app to go mainstream, but it doesn't have that monopoly anymore," Happn spokeswoman Marie Cosnard said. "We're aware people use several dating apps." BTIG analyst Brandon Ross noted that Tinder's ranking among top-grossing mobile apps has been caught in a downward trend during the past few months (App Annie).
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NYPOST – Dec 18 – Happn is a fast growing mobile dating app, known for matching users whose paths they've crossed. Launched in February 2014, Happn is on track for 10M registered users worldwide by Dec. 31. The app is adding ~1.3M new users every month, and expects to reach 30M by the end of 2016. In New York City, Happn now has 250K active users. Investors are especially impressed that ~60% of Happn's registrants are monthly active users, and another 40% of those are checking the app every day.
NY POST – Apr 30 - The number of paying subscribers to MatchGroup dating sites topped 4M in the most recent quarter. That’s an increase of ~500K subscribers in the quarter. More than half of that gain came from new subscriptions to Tinder Plus, execs said. Cowen & Co. reckons 276K Tinder Plus subscriptions have been sold since the March 2 launch, generating ~$3M in revenue.