MatchNet gives $20,000 to the Terminator
After campaigning to ban fund raising during the budget writing season, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has accepted $20,000 from the co-chairman of MatchNet. Contracostatimes.com has more. (reg. req’d)Lemontonic trims financing deal
Lemontonic Inc., now developing an online dating service through Microsoft Instant Messenger, is trimming its private-placement financing to $1.5 million from $2 million. In a deal with Wellington West Capital Inc., Lemontonic (TSXV:LEM) said Monday it is cancelling...What’s up with Spring Street Networks?
Last July, Spring Street Networks raised $6 million from Battery Ventures. The company raised a $1.5 million angel investment in 2001 as part of its spinout from Nerve.com. Some of Spring Street Networks’ more than 200 media company partners includeBoston.com,...eHarmony’s media spending and membership stats
Reuters UK article covering eHarmony’s media expenses, membership stats and ranking information. In eHarmony’s radio and television ad campaign, the marriage counsellor and author is joined by couples who found their “soul mates” with help from...The Prisoner of Sex.com
More info on Match.com founder Gary Kremen in WIRED. In 1994, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers offered to invest in the online classifieds business that Match.com was part of, but the VCs wanted to merge it with Architext, which would become Excite.com. Kremen...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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