Bumble
Social media company
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| January 2025 | Whitney Wolfe Herd announces her return as Bumble's CEO in March. |
| 2024 | Bumble led an amicus brief in the Moyle v. United States case, continuing its advocacy for reproductive rights. |
| 2024 | Bumble backed the CONSENT Act, a federal bill aimed at protecting recipients of sexually explicit images, including AI-manipulated images. |
| 2024 | Bumble launched Opening Moves, a feature that allows female users to add profile prompts for men to respond to, and enables same-sex and nonbinary users to use similar interaction prompts. |
| August 2024 | The Economist reported that 61% of Bumble users were men. |
| August 2024 | Researchers from KU Leuven in Belgium identified location-based security vulnerabilities in multiple dating apps, including Bumble, which could potentially allow malicious actors to determine users' locations through trilateration techniques. |
| August 2024 | Bumble announced plans to develop a chatbot to assist users with flirting strategies. |
| July 2024 | Bumble introduced a new reporting option specifically for profiles using artificially generated photos, addressing emerging concerns about AI-generated content on the platform. |
| June 2024 | Bumble acquires Geneva, a friend-finding group chat app. |
| May 2024 | Bumble launched a controversial marketing campaign with billboards that suggested women should not choose celibacy, which led to significant public criticism for allegedly shaming women's personal choices. Following the backlash, the company publicly apologized, removed the advertisements, and committed to donating to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. |
| March 2024 | Bumble collaborated with reality TV personalities Phaedra Parks, Parvati Shallow, and Peter Weber from The Traitors to launch the Deception Detector feature. |
| February 2024 | Bumble introduced Deception Detector, a machine learning model designed to detect fake user profiles, with the ability to automatically block up to 95% of identified spam/scam accounts. |
| February 2024 | Bumble announces a restructuring plan involving layoffs of 350 employees, approximately 30% of its workforce. |
| 2023 | Bumble led an amicus brief in the Zurawski v. State of Texas case, arguing in favor of reproductive rights. |
| November 2023 | Whitney Wolfe Herd steps down as CEO, with Lidiane Jones from Slack replacing her. |
| 2022 | In response to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Bumble made additional donations to the ACLU of Texas and Planned Parenthood. |
| October 2022 | Bumble made the Private Detector tool open source, sharing the technology for wider use. |
| April 2022 | Virginia passed Senate Bill 493, prescribing civil penalties for sending sexually explicit images without consent, with Bumble's support. |
| April 2022 | Bumble introduces free support courses for abuse survivors through Bloom for users who report abuse. |
| March 2022 | Bumble launched the #CyberFlashingIsFlashing ad campaign in the UK to support the Online Safety Act, which was subsequently passed by the UK government. |
| February 2022 | Bumble acquires Fruitz, a French-owned dating app popular with Gen Z, marking its first acquisition. |
| 2021 | Bumble set up a relief fund for those affected by the Texas Heartbeat Act. |
| June 2021 | Stripe software engineer Robert Heaton discovered a significant security vulnerability in Bumble that could enable attackers to precisely locate users through trilateration. Bumble responded by fixing the vulnerability within three days and issued a $2000 bug bounty to Heaton. |
| February 2021 | Bumble raises $2.2 billion through its IPO on the Nasdaq exchange, with initial share value of $43 increasing to $76, valuing the company at over $13 billion. |
| January 2021 | As part of their IPO filing, Bumble announced they had 2.4 million paying users. |
| January 15 2021 | Bumble temporarily suspended the option to filter matches by political preference after women allegedly used the app to gather information about Capitol attack participants and forward it to the FBI. The political preference filter was reinstated later the same day, following user criticism. |
| 2020 | Bumble agreed to pay $22.5 million in a class action settlement over claims of unfair auto-renewal practices in California, without admitting any wrongdoing. |
| 2020 | Bumble launched a three-year partnership with the National Domestic Violence Hotline. |
| 2020 | Bumble introduced a temporary feature allowing users to expand distance filters to match with anyone in the same country and add a 'virtual dating' badge to indicate willingness to date via video calls during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Bumble expanded its gender identity options to include more inclusive selections for genderqueer and transgender users, following media coverage by The Daily Dot. |
| 2020 | MagicLab is renamed Bumble Inc., becoming the parent company of Bumble and Badoo. |
| December 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bumble experienced a 10.9% increase in monthly active users in the final quarter of the year. |
| June 2020 | Match Group and Bumble reached an undisclosed settlement to resolve all ongoing litigation. |
| 2019 | Bumble helped pass House Bill 2789 in Texas, making electronic transmission of sexually explicit material a punishable offense. |
| June 2019 | Bumble announced the addition of in-app voice and video calls across all its platforms (Bumble, Bumble Bizz, and Bumble BFF), with calls only possible after users match. |
| April 2019 | Bumble launched Private Detector, an AI-powered image classifier for detecting unsolicited nude photos, allowing users to view, block, or report inappropriate images. |
| September 2018 | Bumble introduced a 'snooze' feature that allows users to pause their app activity and take a break from using the platform. |
| August 2018 | Bumble launched the Bumble Fund to support women-led startups. Following Christine Blasey Ford's testimony against Brett Kavanaugh, Bumble ran the 'Believe Women' ad campaign and donated to RAINN. |
| April 2018 | Bumble reported that 85% of users were seeking serious relationships, with only 4% of men and less than 1% of women looking for hookups. |
| April 2018 | Bumble expanded its sign-up options by adding a phone number-based registration method, moving away from mandatory Facebook login in response to the Cambridge Analytica controversy. |
| March 2018 | Match Group initiated a lawsuit against Bumble, alleging patent infringement and theft of trade secrets from Tinder. |
| March 2018 | Following the Parkland high school shooting, Bumble implemented a policy banning photos of users posing with guns, showing a proactive approach to user safety. |
| November 2017 | Bumble is valued at more than $1 billion following Blackstone Inc.'s majority stake purchase in its parent company MagicLab. |
| October 2017 | Bumble officially launched Bumble Bizz, expanding its platform to include professional networking with a woman-first approach. |
| August 2017 | The neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer encouraged its readers to harass Bumble's staff to protest the company's support of women's empowerment. |
| August 2017 | Bumble partnered with the Anti-Defamation League to remove users who display hate symbols in their profiles, demonstrating a commitment to content moderation and preventing hate speech. |
| March 2017 | Bumble announced plans to launch Bumble Bizz, a career networking app with a woman-first interface. |
| October 2016 | Bumble launched new photo moderation rules, banning mirror selfies, obscured faces, and photos of users in underwear to improve app content quality and user experience. |
| September 2016 | Bumble launched a pioneering photo verification tool in the United States, requiring users to submit a selfie with a specific pose for manual human review to confirm their identity in profile pictures. |
| June 2016 | Bumble posted an open letter to its blog and blocked a user for sexist behavior after he had an outburst at a female user. |
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