The Meet Group, Inc. (formerly MeetMe) owns several mobile
social networking service
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s including MeetMe,
hi5
hi5 is an American social networking service based in San Francisco, California. It is owned by The Meet Group.
Users can create a profile and provide personal information including interests, age, photos, and hometown. Users can also send ...
, LOVOO, Growlr, Skout, and
Tagged. The company has offices in
New Hope, Pennsylvania
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,
Philadelphia
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,
San Francisco
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,
Dresden
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, and
Berlin
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.
Origins
Two high school students, Dave and Catherine Cook, created myYearbook during their
Spring break 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 and Catherine was a sophomore; the project was initially activated at
Montgomery High School, in suburban
New Jersey
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where they attended. The site was created entirely by workers in India.
In 2006, myYearbook raised $4.1 million from
U.S. Venture Partners and
First Round Capital
First Round is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies.
Founded by Josh Kopelman and Howard Morgan First Round typically provides seed-stage funding and focuses on portfolio companies ...
. In 2008, it raised $13 million in a Series B round.
Features
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. This change is because "Yearbook" means more about meeting friends from the past while "MeetMe" would convey the meaning of users making new friends, which is what the website is intended for.
In October 2016, MeetMe acquired
Skout
SKOUT is the developer of a location-based social networking and dating application and website. SKOUT was one of the first dating and mobile people discovery applications to emphasize generalized user location. SKOUT is available on both iOS ...
, a global mobile app for meeting new people, for $55 million.
On April 3, 2017, the company acquired
if(we) and rebranded it to The Meet Group.
In September 2017, Meet Group acquired German dating ap
Lovoo
In 2020, The Meet Group was acquired by
ProSiebenSat.1 Media
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with a parent company, ParshipMeet Group, being formed to manage both The Meet Group and
Parship.
See also
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Facebook
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin ...
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MySpace
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List of social networking websites
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References
External links
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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 profie of Catherine and Geoff Cook
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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