Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.6 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Bumble Inc.
EU Transparency Register
441651441923-29 First registered on 22 Mar 2021
Goals / Remit
Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Bumble for Friends, Badoo, Fruitz and Official. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date), friendship (Bumble For Friends) and professional networking (Bumble Bizz). Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. Fruitz, founded in 2017, encourages open and honest communication of dating intentions through playful fruit metaphors. Official is an app for couples that promotes open and honest communication between partners and was founded in 2020.
Main EU files targeted
Bumble engages with EU policymakers on issues related to regulating the technology industry - particularly the Digital Services Act and Artificial Intelligence Act - as well as on the Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, and other issues that impact women's safety and online toxicity.
Address
Head Office
1105 W 41st St
Austin, Texas 78756
UNITED STATESEU Office
The Broadgate Tower Third Floor 20 Primrose Street
London 2RS - EC2A
UNITED KINGDOMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.6
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Morgane TAYLOR 21 Sep 2023 21 Sep 2024 Complementary Information
Currently, Bumble has two employees engaged in public policy efforts in Europe.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Technology Coalition (https://www.technologycoalition.org/)
Internet Watch Foundation (https://www.iwf.org.uk/)
StopNCII.org (http://stopncii.org/)
Thorn (https://www.thorn.org/)
Partnership on AI (PAI) (https://partnershiponai.org/)
techUK (https://www.techuk.org/)Member organisations
N/A
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount grayling sa 25,000€ - 49,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name flint europe grayling sa Closed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Bumble is currently advocating for legislation that would create penalties for the act of sending unsolicited lewd images, also known as cyberflashing in the EU, the UK and the US. We are actively engaged on issues concerning intimate image abuse, tackling online toxicity, and combating tech-facilitated gendered harms. Our campaigns include conducting research on the above mentioned topics, organising events, drafting position papers and amendments, as well as outreach to policymakers.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 05 Apr 2022 Location virtual Subject Artificial Inteligence Act Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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