Originally an under-18 site, Tagged allowed users of any age to join from October 2006. In September 2005 the company raised $1.5 million in angel investor funding and three months later raised an additional $7 million from Mayfield Fund, a venture capital firm. The pair had formerly co-founded internet incubator Jumpstart Technologies, which was later fined $900,000 for alleged violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, then the largest-ever penalty for spam. was co-founded in mid-2004 by entrepreneurs Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith, who wanted to build a 'Teen Yahoo! or the next MTV'. On April 3, 2017, the company was acquired by The Meet Group. private companies and #80 on Forbes ' 2011 list of America's Most Promising Companies. 500 company ranking #476 on the 2010 Inc. The company has since adopted privacy reforms and changed its invitation processes.

In 2009, Tagged was criticized for sending deceptive Email spam and paid $1.4 million in legal settlements regarding those practices.

Michael Arrington wrote in April 2011 that Tagged is most notable for the ability to grow profitably during the era of Facebook. As of September 2011, Quantcast estimates Tagged monthly unique users at 5.9 million in the United States, and 18.6 million globally. Tagged claims it has 300 million members as of 2014. It allows members to browse the profiles of any other members, and share tags and virtual gifts. Tagged is a social discovery website based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2004. English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Malay

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