Twinby dating app attracted investment of 500 million rubles

During the round, the Russian division of the company was valued at 2 billion rubles, the international division at 28 million dollars. “The financing was received from a group of investors, whose details of cooperation are confidential,” said a company representative. service.

Twinby will use the funds raised to expand its team of developers, improve the application, launch a web version of the service, implement purchases, launch advertising campaigns, expand its presence in the regions, as well as “test hypotheses in international markets.” the statement says.

It is assumed that Twinby’s Russian office will focus on marketing, while the international department “will deal with product development and hypothesis testing,” the press service notes.

“The funds received will help us accelerate development, continue improving technologies and reach a new level of scale. “In the near future, Twinby will take on a completely new look that will be appreciated by millions of users,” promised the company’s co-founder and director Veronika Yakovleva.

HSE graduates Yakovleva and Valery Klimov launched Twinby in June 2023. At the same time, dating service Tinder finally left the Russian market. A special feature of Twinby is that upon registration, users undergo a psychological test, which allows the service to select partners based on their compatibility.

According to its own data, as of the end of December 2024, the Twinby app had been downloaded by more than 7.5 million people and the service’s monthly active audience exceeded one million users. According to Yakovleva, since its launch, Twinby has helped create “about 10 unions that turned into marriages.”

In November 2023, Forbes wrote that the dating service raised 150 million rubles from Impact Capital and former InDrive CTO Alexander Burtsev. In October this year, Yakovleva clarified that the total investments in Twinby as part of the round, which lasted from the end of August 2023 to the fall of 2024, amounted to 240 million rubles.