Tinder launched in 2012 within startup incubator Hatch Labs as a joint venture between IAC and the mobile app development firm Xtreme Labs. By 2014, Tinder was registering about one billion swipes per day.

Who created the Tinder app?

Whitney Wolfe Herd Whitney Wolfe Herd joined a Los Angeles based startup at the age of 22 and later on involved in the development of a dating app which became Tinder in future. Tinder was an instant hit not just in the US but globally and it is said that the name Tinder was Wolfes brainchild.

Who funded Tinder?

Tinder is funded by 2 investors. Benchmark and IAC are the most recent investors. Tinder has invested in Vina on Sep 22, 2016 . This investment - Seed Round - Vina - was valued at $1.4M .

What is the real meaning of Tinder?

1 : a very flammable substance adaptable for use as kindling. 2 : something that serves to incite or inflame that rhetoric was ready tinder for revolution— Margaret Peters.

Why did Tinder change its name?

All in a name: Why is it called Tinder? Although founders decided against the name “Matchbox,” they at least had a starting point. “People will either get it, and theyll say, Oh — tinder: fire, or they dont get it and they think its some clever misspelling of the word tender,” he said.