Wamba (wamba.com)

Wamba
Available in	English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Thai, Greek, Russian, Swedish, Hindi, Indonesian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Serbian, Korean.
Founded	2002
Headquarters	London, Moscow, Delhi
Area served	Worldwide
Owner	FINAM and DST (Mail.ru group)
Employees	150
URL	wamba.com
Commercial	Free, but with a charge for higher prominence
Registration	yes
Users	Over 100 m registered since its launch, currently over 25 m active users
Launched	2003 as Mamba, July 2012 as Wamba

Wamba is a global social networking service for meeting new people, which was first launched as “Mamba” in 2003. According to the company, it was the first freemium social networking site in the world.

Background

Wamba was first launched as “Mamba” in 2003. According to the company, it was the first freemium social networking site in the world. Mamba was created by a small team interested in the future of social communication online.

In July 2012, the service was rebranded internationally as Wamba. The service can be accessed through other domains belonging to white-label partners,[1] (such as Msn, Icq, Yahoo, or Mail.ru) and through Wamba's own domains such as Mamba and Mamboo.[2]

Audience

Over 100 million users have registered with Wamba, and the service currently has over 25 million active users worldwide.[3]

Funding

70% of the company is held by the investment company Finam, the other 30% belongs to Digital Sky Technologies (DST) (Mail.ru Group).

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References

"How Badoo built a billion-pound social network... On sex (Wired UK)". Archived from the original on 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
"Interview with Gloria Diez, COO of Mamboo, Social Dating Site - Online Personals Watch: News on the Dating Industry and Business". Online Personals Watch. 2011-09-08. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
"Wamba Corporate: Global Social Discovery". Corp.wamba.com. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
"Mamba looks abroad and becomes Wamba | RusBase.com". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-26.

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[1] "How Badoo built a billion-pound social network... On sex (Wired UK)". Archived from the original on 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2017-09-18.

[2] "Interview with Gloria Diez, COO of Mamboo, Social Dating Site - Online Personals Watch: News on the Dating Industry and Business". Online Personals Watch. 2011-09-08. Retrieved 2016-09-22.

[3] "Wamba Corporate: Global Social Discovery". Corp.wamba.com. Retrieved 2016-09-22.

[4] "Mamba looks abroad and becomes Wamba | RusBase.com". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-26.