Friendzone

Name

Friendzone

Legal name

Rubeus, Inc.

Website

https://tryfriendzone.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Networking

akta.pro primary industry

Dating & Relationship Networks (BPAMABAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community/Group Chat Platforms (BPAMACAH)

Keywords

• Location-based social networking
• Friend discovery app
• Local social connections
• Proximity-based matching
• Social networking app

Headquarters

HQ city

Bristol

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Free Mobile App: The Friendzone app is offered at no cost ($0.00) to users. The revenue model is not explicitly disclosed in the available source materials.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Friendzone is a free mobile application that helps individual users make new friends with people in their local area. The app uses location-based discovery to surface nearby individuals also seeking new friendships, and is delivered as a downloadable app file offered at no cost through the company's website under Terms and Conditions set by Rubeus, Inc.

Product overview

Friendzone is a single, standalone mobile application designed to help users make new friends with people in their local area. The product is offered as a free app with no cost to the user ($0.00), with no additional modules, tiers, or add-ons mentioned. The core functionality revolves around location-based social discovery to connect nearby individuals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Friendzone

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Patook: Patook is a strictly platonic friend-making app that uses proximity and interest matching — a near-identical product category to Friendzone, though with a stronger emphasis on preventing romantic misuse.
• LMK: LMK is a teen-focused app for making new friends at school and nearby, directly overlapping with Friendzone's friend-discovery use case for a younger demographic.
• Friender: Friender is a swipe-based app dedicated solely to platonic friend matching, making it a direct head-to-head competitor to Friendzone's local-friend-discovery premise.
• Yubo: Yubo is a social discovery app primarily for Gen Z that lets users find and meet new people in their area through live streaming and chat — a closely comparable location-based friend-making product.
• Meetup: Meetup is a long-established platform for finding local groups and people with shared interests, directly addressing the same "meet new people in your area" pain point that Friendzone targets.
• Bumble BFF: Bumble's friendship-discovery mode is the most direct competitor: a location-based swipe-to-match product helping users find platonic friends nearby. Operates within the Bumble dating app and shares Friendzone's core value proposition of local friend discovery.
• Skout: Skout was a pioneering location-based social discovery app for meeting new people nearby, historically a direct competitor in the same "meet people around you" category.
• Hey! VINA: Hey! VINA is a women-focused friend-finding app that helps users meet new people in their city, sharing Friendzone's core thesis that adults want tools to expand their local social circles.

Broad incumbents

• Nextdoor: Nextdoor is an established neighborhood-based social network that, while broader in scope, addresses the same underlying need for local social connection and community discovery.
• Bumble: Bumble is the parent dating platform that hosts Bumble BFF, giving Friendzone's direct competitor a large, venture-backed parent with significant distribution and brand strength.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tryfriendzone
• Facebookfacebook.com/tryfriendzone

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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