Happn is a French dating app that uses smartphone location data to surface people you cross in real life, adding their profiles to the top of your feed. Users can like profiles and, on mutual interest, start chatting for free; the app also sells credits that let users start conversations without a mutual match. The product emphasizes serendipity and real-world interactions rather than swipe-driven discovery. The company has grown rapidly from roughly 200,000 users to 6 million across 25 cities. The article says the next step is Asian expansion and that new features are expected. It also notes dating is a capital-intensive category, indicating ongoing funding needs as Happn scales. Happn provides a hyperlocalized dating app that shows profiles of other members who have been within 250 meters in real time. Users signal interest using hearts—or “charms”—and can begin conversations if interest is mutual. The service is led by founder and CEO Didier Rappaport and is available in France, the UK, Germany, Spain, the US and Australia. As of the article, Happn counts one million users in total, including over 100,000 users in London. The company raised $8m in funding from Alven Capital and DN Capital and intends to use the funds to expand internationally. The funding was reported by FinSMEs on 12/12/2014. Happn is a mobile dating app that uses your phone’s location to show profiles of people you’ve crossed paths with, presenting encounters in a grid-style feed. The app lets users like profiles for mutual matches and enables chatting with credits even without a match; free chat is available after mutual interest. It monetizes through purchasable credits and planned native advertising integrated into the app. Officially launched in March 2014 in Paris, Happn is available in three countries and has roughly 200,000 installs. Daily active user counts reported are about 40,000 in Paris, nearly 10,000 in London, and 7,000–10,000 in Berlin. The company has a 16-person team and plans to launch in every major European city over the next eight months and possibly one large city outside Europe.

Total raised

$22M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2015