Andrey Andreev

Andrey Andreev is a Russian-British billionaire technology entrepreneur, founder of MagicLab, the parent company of dating and social networking apps Badoo, Bumble, Lumen and Chappy. Andreev’s previous ventures include SpyLog, Begun and Mamba.

• Russian entrepreneur Andrey Andreev is the ultimate matchmaker, helping build three successful online dating applications so far.
• He founded Mamba (renamed Wamba) in 2004, a Russian online dating site that now has 31 million users in 15 countries.
• Two years later he started Badoo, today the world’s largest online dating site with over 377 million using 47 languages across 190 countries.
• In 2014, he put up $10 million in seed money for a 79% stake in Bumble, the American dating-app company with over 51 million users.
• Andreev got his start in 1999 with SpyLog, a web-tracking business that helped webmasters track visitors to their sites.