The Meet Group, Inc. (formerly MeetMe) owns several dating app networking services including MeetMe,

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, LOVOO, Growlr, Skout, and Tagged. The company has offices in

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, and

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History

Two siblings, Dave and Catherine Cook, created myYearbook during their

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of 2005. They persuaded their older brother Geoff, who had founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge from his Harvard dorm room, to invest in their project. At the launch of the site, Dave was a junior in high school and Catherine was a sophomore; the project was initially activated at Montgomery High School, in suburban

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where they attended. The site was created entirely by workers in India. In 2006, myYearbook raised $4.1 million from

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and

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. In 2008, it raised $13 million in a Series B round. In July 2011, myYearbook announced it had agreed to be acquired by Latino social networking site Quepasa. In June 2012, the company formed from the combination of myYearbook and Quepasa was renamed MeetMe. In October 2016, MeetMe acquired Skout for $55 million. On April 3, 2017, the company acquired

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and rebranded to The Meet Group. In September 2017, Meet Group acquired German dating app Lovoo for $70 million USD. In 2020, The Meet Group was acquired by

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with a parent company, ParshipMeet Group, being formed to manage both The Meet Group and

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. In 2022,

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announced its livestreaming service Tumblr Live, based on The Meet Group's product Livebox. In 2024, Tumblr announced that they would be discontinuing Tumblr Live as of January 24, with options for users to migrate to MeetMe.

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CEO Geoff Cook Interview; Online Personals Watch, October 2013
* ttps://www.inc.com/magazine/201205/liz-welch/catherine-cook-and-geoff-cook-myyearbook.html Inc. magazine profile of Catherine and Geoff Cook {{DEFAULTSORT:Myyearbook American social networking websites Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq Internet properties established in 2005 Yearbooks 2014 initial public offerings Companies based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

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