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About Muzz

Muslims don’t date - they marry.

Shahzad Younas is the CEO and Founder of Muzz, now the worlds largest Muslim marriage app, boasting over 20M members globally and due to celebrate over 1M success stories! Born in Manchester, UK, an avid Manchester United fan, Shahzad studied Computer Science, earning the Victoria Medal at the University of Manchester for graduating top of his class.

He entered the world of Investment Banking, working as a Portfolio Risk Trader in the Institutional Equities Division for 9 years. There he ran various customer and proprietary trading strategies, regularly handling billions of dollars of risk. He was promoted to Vice President, however had the itch to leave the banking industry. Whilst there, he set up a Muslim marriage website (Muzz) in 2011, with the aim of helping Muslims in London find their life partner. Fast forward to 2012-2013, he saw the rise of smartphones and the app industry - and the penny dropped. Why is Muzz not an app?

This insight led him to take the leap and quit his banking career to go all in on Muzz. From the bedroom of his home, he learned how to code and build apps, and single handedly built Muzz v1.0 on the Apple platform in 5 months. A month later he coded up and released the Android version. Key to the app was the ability to easily sign up, browse profiles and on mutual attraction, being able to message each other for free. A far cry from the old clunky expensive websites that had a terrible reputation.

Muzz quietly grew, and in 2017 was accepted in to Y Combinator, becoming the first Muslim centric startup ever to be backed by the prestigious Silicon Valley based accelerator behind Airbnb/Dropbox/Stripe. It has since been featured on the BBC, The Times, The Evening Standard, The Financial Times, The New York Times, CNN, MensHealth, and TechCrunch amongst many others.

During this seed stage and following a successful Demo Day, they raised a total of $1.75M. Fast forward to 2019 and the firm raised a further $7M from Y Combinator and Luxor Capital - a New York based hedge fund.

Today Muzz has continued to grow, with headquarters in London and a global team of over 150 engineers, designers and marketers. The entire team is focused on serving this crucial need for Muslims worldwide, with a more recent innovation being the launch of Jamaa - a Muslim social network, whose aim is to provide a space and community for Muslims outside of marriage.

Muzz is a profitable business and boasts new internal records nearly every month since inception.