[1] The company was launched on October 21, 2011, by Changseong Ho and Jiwon Moon, creators of Viki, which they sold for $200 million.

On Viki users would translate and subtitle television shows or movies, so Ho and Moon started Vingle to grow the number of interest groups and crowdsourcing projects that users could pursue on the site.

The social network was initially based on a South Korean website, but in 2014 moved to an iOS and Android app.

[2] The app received 1.4 million downloads in its first year,[3] and Vingle next began to expand into Japan and the United States.

[4] By late 2014, Vingle had four million monthly visitors from 105 countries, with content in twenty-six different languages.