Bumble Founder, Blackstone Win Over Insider Trading Claims (1)

July 8, 2025, 8:53 PM UTCUpdated: July 8, 2025, 9:48 PM UTC

Bumble Inc.‘s founder and the dating app’s Blackstone Inc. backers prevailed Tuesday over investor claims of insider trading in a September 2021 stock offering.

The Delaware Chancery Court sided with a special litigation committee of Bumble’s board, which argued last week that the allegations in a lawsuit led by the City of Vero Beach Police Officers’ Retirement Trust Fund were too weak to advance.

The consolidated litigation alleged Bumble hid a decline in paying users while steering toward the stock offering in which Blackstone made sales of over $1 billion.

Earlier in 2021, the private equity giant had sponsored ...

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