The Meet Group, Inc. (formerly MeetMe) owns several mobile

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s including MeetMe,

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, LOVOO, Growlr, Skout, and

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. The company has offices in

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, and

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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

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where they attended. The site was created entirely by workers in India. In 2006, myYearbook raised $4.1 million from

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and

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. 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 an ...

, a global mobile app for meeting new people, for $55 million. On April 3, 2017, the company acquired

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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

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with a parent company, ParshipMeet Group, being formed to manage both The Meet Group and

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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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Myyearbook 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

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