citizens, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States announced that it was forcing Kunlun to sell the company to American owners in March 2019.Ī year later, Kunlun reached a deal. Citing fears that the Chinese government could use personal data stored on the app to blackmail U.S. bought Grindr in 2016 and had hopes of taking the company public in a large stock offering until the U.S. The international ownership saga of America’s most popular gay dating app, Grindr, came to a close last month when a group of American investors took control of the West Hollywood company.Ĭhina-based Beijing Kunlun Tech Co.
