PlentyOfFish
1133 Melville St, Vancouver, BC, V6E 4E5, Canada
Overview
Plentyoffish is a free dating website offering premium services such as seeing when a user profile was viewed, and allowing users to see whether a message has been read or deleted. Through this platform, users are free to change their picture, profile details, and description without it being approved later. Plentyoffish has 3,000,000 daily active online dating users. The platform is a preferred singles dating app because users can view matches and communicate with them for free. The site has been translated into French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese, and is one of the top 100 internet start-ups of all time. Plentyoffish was launched in 2003 by Markus Frind. It is based in Vancouver, B.C.
- Total investments
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- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
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- Active investors
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Sector focus
- Dating
- Identity Management
- Internet
Investment portfolio
- theComplete.me
Participated · Seed · Apr 2012
theComplete.me, which has relaunched as LikeIt.com, provides a service to discover people, places and things via social-graph interests and social games. It enables social people discovery by allowing users to connect with others who are talking about the things they like — music, movies, books, hobbies and sports — and to share those items across social platforms. Supported sharing platforms include Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Photobucket, Flickr, Foursquare and Goodreads. The company is led by founder and CEO Brian Bowman and CTO Shashikant Joshi. It is based in San Francisco, CA. Financially, the company raised $500K in financing led by Western Technology Investment, with additional participation from other investors listed in reports. theComplete.me is a Facebook app that pulls in and analyzes data from Facebook and numerous other social services to identify potential matches. Its interface organizes profile data into editable "fraMEs" and displays potential matches in a Pinterest-style layout showing shared interests. Matches are generated from behavioral signals—who you view, messaging patterns, mutual connections—and from data pulled from LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Photobucket, Flickr, Foursquare, GoodReads and Instagram. In private beta it has amassed about 1.5 million profiles of users and their friends. The product preserves anonymity (only first names are initially shown and nothing posts to Facebook unless enabled) and lets users link IDs from other dating sites to message users there through the app. The company plans to monetize via microtransactions such as ads adjacent to fraMEs while keeping the core app free; the founding team is led by Brian Bowman, former VP of product at Match.com.
Team
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