TMG CEO, Geoff Cook, tells Gay Star News via Skype that he was aware of gay ‘bears’ before purchasing Growlr, but can’t pretend to be an expert. Recently filed reports for the first quarter of 2019 showed total revenue of $49.5million, up 32% year on year. It floated on the NASDAQ Capital Market in 2014. Its other brands include MeetMe, LOVOO, Skout and Tagged. It was founded by current CEO, Geoff Cook with his siblings, Catherine and Dave Cook, and specializes in dating apps. TMG was founded in 2005 as MyYearbook, but has grown and changed its name in the intervening years. TMG is a publicly owned business headquartered in New Hope, Pennsylvania. It benefited from being one of the first geo-social dating apps to hit the market and has a loyal following: two factors that made it an attractive proposition for TMG. Growlr is aimed very much at the ‘bears’ market – men who are bigger, hairer and heftier, plus their admirers. That puts it in third place in the US market, behind Grindr and Scruff. The app says it has 10million members and over 200,000 daily users. In March, it was revealed he’d sold it in a $12million deal to tech company, The Meet Group ( TMG). Gay entrepreneur Coley Cummiskey launched men’s dating app Growlr in 2010 in Columbus, Ohio.
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