| Website | badoo.com |
| Blog | blog.badoo.com |
| @Badoo | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | (+44) 020 7099 9939 |
| Employees | 200 |
| Founded | 11/06 |
| Description | Meeting Network |
| Series A, 1/08 Finam Capital | $30M |
Badoo.com is the largest, fastest growing Social Network for Meeting New People in the world, very popular in Southern Europe, South America, Eastern Europe and parts of Asia.
With over 137 million users in over 180 countries using the site in 40 languages, Badoo.com is a truly global, multi-lingual, location-based, “Meeting Network,” focused on chatting, flirting and meeting new people.
Badoo was launched in 2006, by a small international group of young, forward thinking programmers and tech entrepreneurs. Their vision was to use the most advanced technologies available to create an elegantly modern, fast and easy way for people to meet new people in their area - and have fun doing it. The scope would be global, but adapted to local needs. It worked.
Key Facts :
Awards : 2011 - 2012
01/05/12 - Badoo nominated for Best International Startup at the 2011 TechCrunch Crunchies Awards
11/28/11 – Badoo nominated for Best Social Network at the 5th Annual Mashable Awards 2011
04/11/11 – Badoo nominated in the Social Networking & Collaboration category at the 2011 Daily Telegraph’s Start-Up 100 Awards
18/11/11 – Badoo nominated as Highly Recommended for the The Europas Hero Award at the European Tech Startup Awards 2011
Badoo in the Press :
“Badoo : The Biggest Startup You’ve Never Heard Of Is About To Hit 108 Million Members” Business Insider, February 2011
“If Facebook is largely for connecting with people you already know, Badoo’s execs pitch it as a way to Meet New People, with a nightclub style feel” The Financial Times, March 2011
“Badoo doubles up, and the Social Network has the world in its sights.” The Next Web, July 2011
Future of Social Networking? “When it comes to business, Badoo is certainly no wannabe. It has a shot at becoming one of Europe’s leading internet firms” The Economist, September 2011
“The business areas that have piqued Wales’ interest include location-based mobile services and collaborative video. When it comes to the former, he cites Foursquare and Badoo as interesting businesses.” Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, October 2011
“Badoo just may be the biggest startup you’ve never heard of. It’s a social network for meeting new people (and no, that doesn’t just mean teens hooking up), and it now has over 130 million users.” Business Insider, November 2011
“Badoo, the online network for meeting new people recently reached 130 million registered users and now brings in $100 million a year. Based out of London’s Silicon Roundabout, Badoo would be the 4th biggest social network if it was just a social network” TechCrunch, December 2011
“A European social network that straddles the physical and virtual worlds allowing users to find out who is near them and chat and meet up announced at DLD in Munich that it had topped 135 million users.” the Wall Street Journal, January 2012
Smart List 2012 : “50 people who will change the world”. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales nominates Badoo founder Andrey Andreev as one of the 50 people who will change the world. Wired magazine, January 2012
