AngelList Dating Companies
Poking around AngelList for dating site startup funding opportunities. The category features 414 companies, 20,910 investors and 73,873 followers. Over 50 new dating sites have listed on AngelList in the last few months. Dating site investors are all over the map,...Zoosk Cleaning Up for IPO
Getting lots of calls from people wanting to talk about Zoosk lately, and now this. Zoosk is preparing to go public, having picked Bank of America to lead its initial public offering. Looks like an acquisition is off the table for now, and finally we will be able to...Match and SNAP Interactive Financials
Reading IAC quarterly financials: – New user conversion to payers is up double digits at Match, driven primarily by improvements in the mobile product. Nontraditional products. The user growth here has been phenomenal, up 90% year-over-year to over 16.5 million...ChristianMingle, The Movie
Christian Mingle is taking a play from the PerfectMatch playbook, partnering with Corbin Bernsen’s Home Theater Films on the recently announced movie, Christian Mingle. The 2005 movie Must Love Dogs featured the PerfectMatch dating site prominently. See also POF...Online Dating Industry News 12-10-13
This guy! How cool is Sir Richard? Buy others on your flight drinks and food and then chat them up with Red, Virgin’s entertainment system. Hookups or hangouts: Comparing dating apps Tinder and Hinge. Here’s another one, Tinder Enters The Friend Zone. This...Spark Networks, a Match Made in Heaven or Hell?
My favorite clandestine Spark Networks tracker sent in the following and said I could print it, so here it goes (no they do not work for a competing dating site). Your counter-points in the comments, or do you agree with the below perspective? Let me know, curious...Dating App Update: Swoon, Catalyst, Closer, Charade Date
There are a bunch of new social/dating apps showing up on my radar. I guess the thing now is how easy it is to create a mobile dating app. Making a compelling one, now that’s another story. The marketplace is saturated with apps with little differentiation,...Online Dating Industry News 12-9-13
Jiayuan.com: Strong Balance Sheet But Needing To Reduce User Churn. This is a fantastic look into Jiayuan finances. Jiayuan.com International’s CEO Discusses Q2 2013 Results. If Tinder And Snapchat Shacked Up And Had A Baby, It Would Be Called Swipe. You know...Global Personals Co-founder Ross Williams Wins Entrepreneur Award
Ross Williams, CEO and Co-founder of Global Personals Ltd, was crowned a winner in the E-commerce category of the Great British Entrepreneur Awards yesterday. Global Personals Ltd launched in 2003 from an office in Ross Williams’s spare bedroom. With annualized...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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