New Hope, Pa.-based The Meet Group, owners of a half-dozen dating and networking apps, announced Wednesday it added a gay-focused dating app to its portfolio.

Growlr, a same-sex dating app with some 200,000 daily active users, agreed to be acquired by the Bucks County company for $11.8 million. Initech, LLC, the privately held company that owned Growlr, will receive the $11.8 million from the Meet conglomerate, in addition to another $2 million, contingent upon hitting certain revenue metrics. Its two staffers will stay put in Seattle, where it’s based.

Initech bills Growlr as the “complete social networking app for gay bears” and was launched in 2010. To date, it has amassed a community of 200,000 daily active users.

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