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Couple keeps all your special moments saved privately in one place and connects you to the most important person in your life for the most private messaging experience. Perfect for both long distance relationships and couples in the same city.
With over 1 million downloads, an Apple editors choice award, and a Google Play staff pick, Couple is a more intimate way to share your life and stay connected to your partner. Express yourself with video, audio, and photos; be close, even when apart with ThumbKiss™; and do everything from one app: share to-do lists, set reminders, make call phone calls, send messages, share your location, and more. Learn all about Couple at: http://www.couple.me
Features include:
· Private timeline to build a shared history & remember all your special moments
· Real-time messaging to express yourself through sharing videos, voice messages, and photo (with photo filters too!)
· Send Secrets: private photos that no one else can see; even set them to disappear!
· ThumbKiss™ when you want to be close: whether next door across continents touch the same spot on your phones to make them both light up and vibrate simultaneously
· Sketch together in real-time: draw together simultaneously from a thousand miles away!
· Make phone calls or Facetime from inside the app
· Share to-do lists: real-time syncing from new date ideas to remembering milk at the store
· Calendar reminders: schedule dates, automatic notification of birthdays, anniversaries, and important dates
· Instantly share locations
· Cross platform support
With over 1 million downloads, an Apple editors choice award, and a Google Play staff pick, Couple is a more intimate way to share your life and stay connected to your partner. Express yourself with video, audio, and photos; be close, even when apart with ThumbKiss™; and do everything from one app: share to-do lists, set reminders, make call phone calls, send messages, share your location, and more. Learn all about Couple at: http://www.couple.me
Features include:
· Private timeline to build a shared history & remember all your special moments
· Real-time messaging to express yourself through sharing videos, voice messages, and photo (with photo filters too!)
· Send Secrets: private photos that no one else can see; even set them to disappear!
· ThumbKiss™ when you want to be close: whether next door across continents touch the same spot on your phones to make them both light up and vibrate simultaneously
· Sketch together in real-time: draw together simultaneously from a thousand miles away!
· Make phone calls or Facetime from inside the app
· Share to-do lists: real-time syncing from new date ideas to remembering milk at the store
· Calendar reminders: schedule dates, automatic notification of birthdays, anniversaries, and important dates
· Instantly share locations
· Cross platform support
Overview
Location
United States, New York
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$20M
Founded date
2012
Investors 1
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Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 10
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| Feb 13, 2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 2/13/16 | Time acquired Viant; YouTube bought BandPage; Microsoft purchased Groove Microsoft acquired Groove, a music service that powers music recommendations and generates personalized playlists using machine-learning. No financial terms of the dea... |
| Feb 12, 2016 | Family App Life360 Acquires Couple, A Private Messaging App For Two | Life360, the mobile application designed for families, announced today that it has acquired the private messaging application and Y Combinator grad Couple (formerly known as Pair), based in Mountain View. Not a pure talent acquisition, Life... |
| Feb 11, 2016 | 4 Couples Apps Perfect for This Year’s Valentine’s Day | What is red, white, pink and shines romance all over the place? Valentine's Day, of course! The “love holiday”, which many attribute to consumerism, is approaching for most countries around the world, so if that is the case of your country,... |
| Oct 12, 2015 | Plane – an icebreaker app for expats in Scandinavia | As exciting and interesting it is to live abroad, the experience comes with many challenges. For example, communication, contact, and building of relationships can be quite a pickle when you move to a new place. Plane is an icebreaker app ... |
| Oct 24, 2014 | The 5 Coolest Lifestyle Apps Ever | Lifestyle apps never cease to be released that will make us all happier, healthier, more spoiled, more connected, and simply take life to the next level. In today’s world there’s no shame in using technology to upgrade your quality of life,... |
| May 20, 2014 | HowAboutWe’s new messaging app for couples takes off | HowAboutWe‘s budding messaging app for lovers, You&Me, could eclipse the competition. Best known for its dating subscription services, HowAboutWe originally launched with a focus on singles. You&Me is the relationship-centric startu... |
| Mar 24, 2014 | VeloCity Graduate PiinPoint Is Latest Y Combinator Startup | PiinPoint, a location analytics startup that previously won $25,000 at the VeloCity Fund Finals, has become the latest company to participate in the Y Combinator accelerator program in Silicon Valley. As part of winning the VeloCity Fund Fi... |
| Feb 9, 2014 | Between, A Couples App, Pairs Up With Japanese Mobile Giant DeNA | Korean startup VCNC has received a strategic investment from Japanese Internet giant DeNA to turn its couples app Between into an open platform for third-party developers. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. DeNA (pronounced D-N-A) is... |
| Dec 19, 2013 | Gift Guide: Four Sweet Presents For Your Sweetheart | The most important gift you give this holiday season will be the gift you give your sweetheart. After all, this is the person you get sex from. That said, these are some cute last-minute ideas that will keep you out of the dog house come Ne... |
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FAQ about Couple
When was Couple founded?
Couple was founded in 2012.
How much funding has Couple raised?
Couple has raised $20M in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about Couple?
Parsers VC has collected 10 articles mentioning Couple, among them “M&A roundup - week ending 2/13/16” (Feb 13, 2016) and “Family App Life360 Acquires Couple, A Private Messaging App For Two” (Feb 12, 2016).
Is Couple still active?
Couple is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 21, 2020.