by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
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,...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
WENHAM, Mass., June 4 /PRNewswire/ — Mullen announced today that Match.com, the global leader in online dating, has selected the agency’s public relations group to orchestrate a multi-faceted consumer public relations campaign to drive category leadership...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
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...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
The Toronto Star has published quite a bit of information about this week’s Big New Service, Lemontronic. Lemontonic raised some $5.5 million (Canadian) from investors in a recent private-placement offering, but expects to spend $4 million this year on marketing...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
EHarmony.com Inc. this month received U.S. Patent No. 6,735,568, which describes a “method and system for identifying people who are likely to have a successful relationship.” Can the elusive art of matchmaking be reduced to equations and databases?...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry
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...