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What Happened To Coffee Meets Bagel After Shark Tank?

Writer Emma Terry

Coffee Meets Bagel founders, Soo, Dawoon, and Arum Kang, were thought to be foolish for rejecting such an impressive offer. "If we were men, we would probably be called 'Bold! Visionary! Brave' for rejecting. Of course we weren't called that," Arum told "Nightline," per ABC News. "At the end of the day we knew we made the right decision," Dawoon added.

After leaving "Shark Tank" sans offer in 2015, the Kang sisters raised $23.2 million in five investment rounds, per SEOAves. Though Coffee Meets Bagel is still available for Android and Apple users, SEOAves reports that its user base of 10 million means that it barely competes with other dating apps, like Tinder, Bumble, and Zoosk. In fact, Coffee Meets Bagel is only in the top 20 dating apps available in app stores.

Back in 2017, the sisters spoke with Forbes about the ways in which they hope to grow their business in the future. "We are still a majority US-based business," Dawoon told Forbes. "We've made more than 2.5 billion introductions to date and there are more than 70,000 couples who have met via Coffee Meets Bagel (that we know of because they told us). The big next step is serving international markets. Of course, we will continue to work on innovating in this space so we can find a better way to service singles."