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  • Keywords: meet people, networking, friends, communicate, meet online, messenger, mesenger, online community, events, concerts, clubs, today, parties, blogs, photo rating, communication, happening, sharing photos, finding friends, rate pics, classifieds, personals, online, social networking
    PR: 0
    Adult Site: no
    IP: 66.175.123.33, 66.175.123.31

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Company

Summary
  • Badoo
  • Company Name: Badoo
  • Homepage: http://www.badoo.com
  • Blog: http://blog.badoo.com/
  • Twitter: Badoo
  • Category: web
  • Number of Employees: 200
  • Founded: Nov-2006
  • Tags: socialnetworking, international, mediasharing, videouploads
  • Description: Meeting Network
  • Overview:
  • 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 135 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 : January 2012

    • 136,000,000+ users
    • in 180 countries
    • $150m+ revenue run rate
    • 200+ employees
    • 127,503 new users per day
    • 2,863,479 photos and videos uploaded daily

    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 :

    “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

    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

    “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.” Wall Street Journal, January 2012


People
Name Title
Andrew Parker Chief Finance Officer
Jessica Powell Chief Marketing Officer
Matthew Woolf VP Mobile
Michelle Kennedy Head of Legal
Name Title
Amit Shafrir Board Member
Jean Laurent Wootton VP Performance Marketing
Lloyd Price VP Consumer Marketing
Michelle Kennedy Head of Commercial Finance
Udi Jacobi VP Business Development

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