SpeedDate.com.

http://www.speeddate.com/

Last activity: 22.09.2016

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Match Group is on a mission to spark meaningful connections for every single person in the world. Founded 25-years ago, Match pioneered the concept of online dating and continues to foster innovation in the online dating industry daily. With more than 20 offices around the world, the company operates more than 45 brands under its portfolio including Match, OkCupid, Tinder, and Hinge. Today, hundreds of millions of singles have found a meaningful connection using a Match Group product.
Headquartered in the heart of Dallas, TX, the company’s meaningful impact, vibrant workplace culture, and contributions to the local community has been recognized by the Dallas Morning News as a Top 100 Place to Work and Dallas Business Journal’s Best Place to Work in 2020. We love what we do because what we do fosters love. Find a career you love by visiting https://www.lifeatmatch.com.

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Overview

Location

United States, California, Redwood City

Employees

11-50

Total raised

$6M

Founded date

2007

Funding Rounds 1

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Mentions in press and media 20

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Apr 20, 2012	Video Social Network Runfaces Takes On Sean Parker’s Airtime	In 2009 a Russian teenager named Andrey Ternovskiy created random video chat website ChatRoulette, which at its peak in March 2010 attracted 1.8 million unique monthly visitors, but suffered from offensive content. The phenomenon inspired S...
Mar 29, 2012	FounderDating coming to Silicon Hills
Mar 25, 2012	Hacker Culture: The Key To Future Prosperity?	Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Dan Abelon, Founder of SpeedDate. Dan blogs about global startup issues at WorldStartups.org. One of the most exciting trends of the early 21st century has been the explosion of hacker culture a...
Mar 30, 2010	What SpeedDate learned from Chatroulette	Chatroulette, the site that connects two random webcam users onscreen in a chat room and lets them figure out what to do next, is probably past its Internet prime. But SpeedDate.com co-founder Dan Abelon scheduled a telephone call with me t...
Nov 4, 2009	Bechtolsheim-Backed Moovweb Develops Mobile Sites And Smartphone Apps	There are plenty of companies out there that specialize in bringing websites to mobile devices by creating optimized sites, such as MoFuse, Jagag, ByteMobile, and many more. But with the fast growth of web use and apps in the mobile space, ...
Jun 26, 2009	WordSmyte: Find the right word to expose bad things	A single clever word or phrase can reshape how people think about an issue. A just-launched site called WordSmyte intends to take advantage of this phenomenon — and it’s focused on things that people hate. So, maybe this site will help peop...
Apr 1, 2009	April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I.	Wow. April Fools Is In full swing. The Guardian goes all Twitter, ditching the printed version and the website. “Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.” Amazon launches a brand new cloud computing service called Floating Amazo...
Feb 3, 2009	Password Optional: Huge Security Breach Hits SpeedDate	Wow. Something is seriously wrong at SpeedDate, the online dating site that throws strangers into whirlwind 3 minute dates. For at least 30 minutes this evening (and possibly more), passwords were totally optional. Type in a user name (no p...
Sep 22, 2008	Voyeur Heaven: WooMe Lets You Post Your Online Video Dates To The Public	WooMe, the site that throws users into 60-second one-on-one online video sessions to form new relationships, is launching a new public version of the site that should appeal to the voyeur in all of us. The site will now allow users to post ...
Sep 12, 2008	SpeedDate Hijacks Facebook Users With A Bait And Switch	SpeedDate, the online dating site that throws singles in a series of rapid dating sessions, has hijacked over 500,000 users from at least three Facebook applications. Users are logging on to Facebook to find that the applications they’ve ha...
Aug 28, 2008	Online Dating: SpeedDate.com Raises $6 Million	If you think regular online dating is still too slow and inconvenient, SpeedDate.com might just be the thing for you. The San Mateo based online dating service just raised $6 million in a Series B round from Menlo Ventures after raising a S...
Aug 28, 2008	SpeedDate Scores $6 Million For Matchmaking In A Hurry	Online dating site SpeedDate has raised $6 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. SpeedDate offers users a series of 3 minute mini-dates, during which they can converse through video, audio, and a chat box. If both partn...
Jul 9, 2008	SpeedDate: Another Facebook App Bites The Dust	The most recent victim of the Facebook vs. annoying application war is SpeedDate. SpeedDate, an application from the company of the same name, has disappeared from the application list, and the link to the application leads back to the Face...
Dec 19, 2007	Definition Of A Successful PR Stunt	Yesterday Meebo and SpeedDate teamed up with a number of bloggers to have a public speed dating session. The results speak for themselves – solid gold content. Somebody give the marketing team a big year end bonus. In my opinion, Wired’s Aa...
Dec 3, 2007	SayHeyHey Melds YouTube and Online Dating, Hosts Ridiculous Videos	It’s hard for me to take SayHeyHey, a new website for posting videos of yourself soliciting dates, all that seriously. Its (preloaded?) collection of videos has some pretty off-the-wall content that’s not suitable for work. But I suppose th...
Nov 14, 2007	WooMe Opens Up to Public	Speed introductions site WooMe, which we reviewed two weeks ago while in the site was still in private beta here, has officially opened its doors to the public. WooMe puts users in quick, 1-on-1 video conferencing sessions during which they...
Nov 13, 2007	WooMe, an innovative new take on online dating, launches to public	The much-anticipated dating and meeting site WooMe is launching to the public today, with some new features and plans. We first wrote about the company during its alpha launch, at the TechCrunch40 conference. Dating is both one of the more ...
Oct 31, 2007	1,000 WooMe Invitations for TechCrunch Readers	WooMe – a website for “speed introductions” that presented at TechCrunch40 but is still in private beta – is giving out one thousand invitations to our readers (redeem yours here). You would be excused for mistaking WooMe for a speed dating...
Sep 19, 2007	Ourlikes, a more efficient matchmaking site	Dating sites like Match.com and eHarmony have been around for years, but competitors are still launching. These startups generally claim the old dating site model is broken. What’s needed, they say, are more immediate connections to a varie...

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FAQ about SpeedDate.com.

When was SpeedDate.com. founded?

SpeedDate.com. was founded in 2007.

How much funding has SpeedDate.com. raised?

SpeedDate.com. has raised $6M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about SpeedDate.com.?

Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning SpeedDate.com., among them “Video Social Network Runfaces Takes On Sean Parker’s Airtime” (Apr 20, 2012) and “FounderDating coming to Silicon Hills” (Mar 29, 2012).

Is SpeedDate.com. still active?

SpeedDate.com. is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 22, 2016.