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After leaving an executive role at Tinder, Herd founded the female-first dating app in 2014 in the hopes of creating a site where women have the power to make the first move in relationships.
"The importance of a woman making the first move is not exclusive to the world of dating, romance, or love," Herd wrote inOf the hundreds of companies that go public every year,have been founded and led by a woman. Four of those were last year, including Maria L. MacCecchini's Annovis Bio and Roni Mamluk's Ayala Pharmaceuticals.
" with Blackstone and Herd taking a majority of the voting power for a period of time to help Bumble focus on long-term goals and avoid activist investors.