- Muzmatch is the first global matchmaking app for Muslims.
- It was founded by 34-year-old Shahzad Younas, a former Morgan Stanley banker, and 25-year-old iOS engineer Ryan Brodie.
- The app says it is close to hitting one million users, and claims 20,000 people have got married after meeting on Muzmatch.
- Younas and Brodie told Business Insider they have declined attractive aquisition offers as they aim to become “the biggest app for Muslims worldwide.”
With pun-filled taglines like “Halal, is it me you’re looking for?” and “You had me at halal,” Muzmatch may seem like just another quirky dating app — but there’s much more to it than that.
Muzmatch is targeted at finding marriage partners for Muslims around the world — and it claims to be close to hitting one million users globally.
Operating in nearly every country (though it’s most popular in the UK, US, and Canada), the location-based app shows users the most relevant people near them based on a “sophisticated algorithm” which considers a number of different factors based on the information they provide in their profiles.
Muzmatch was the brainchild of 34-year-old Shahzad Younas, a former Morgan Stanley banker who told Business Insider he left his job in June 2014 to learn how to build apps after he had the idea for the company.
