Tag Archives: Online-Dating

ProSiebenSat.1 invests in flirt service meetOne.com

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Through its subsidiary SevenVentures, the German media company ProSiebenSat.1 Group has just acquired a 29% stake in the social discovery network meetOne. Bloomberg just wrote about this investment: “The deal values meetOne at about 25 million Euros”. A team assembled by … Continue reading →

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Cupid plc acquires a German online dating business

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Cupid plc, the Edinburgh (UK) based online dating company, has announced the acquisition of 75% of the German OnlineLiebe GmbH and the WomenWeb GmbH earlier this week - for a total of €2.75m. The two companies are run together by the same Munich … Continue reading →

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Flirtic.com raises funding from Almaz Capital

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Flirtic.com, a dating service designed for the social media generation, announced yesterday that it has raised a venture round from Almaz Capital Partners to finance a roll-out into English and Russian-speaking markets. The financial details of this funding are not … Continue reading →

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betterDate: eDarling initiators launch new dating website

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

It took the Berlin based Affinitas GmbH (creator of eDarling) about 2 years to become one of Europe’s leading online dating enterprises. Today it has announced another service for singles, which is scheduled for the end of June. The new website named … Continue reading →

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Is Parship going to be overtaken by eDarling?

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Parship, one of Europe’s largest online dating services, has recently dismissed about 10 percent of its workforce. The Hamburg (Germany) based company employs roughly over 160 people (15 of them had to leave now) and made ​​a turnover of 56 million Euro in 2009. In the … Continue reading →

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Social Dating: Smartdate now has over 3.1 million users

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

In February of 2010 Smartdate announced a €2 million round and several month later in November they raised an additional €3.5 million with the founders of PriceMinster. Right now, about a year after the launch of this new dating service, the startup has already … Continue reading →

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eDarling recently expanded into Russia and Turkey

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

We missed something: eDarling launched its online dating service in Russia and Turkey in the beginning of 2011. Thus, the Berlin-based company is now operating in eleven European countries. With the expansion eDarling sets the foundation for further growth towards market leadership in Europe. … Continue reading →

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The founders of PriceMinister just invested in Smartdate

Posted on November 22, 2010 by admin

The Paris-based online dating platform Smartdate raised 3.5 million Euro in a aditional round of financing with the founders of PriceMinister (Pierre Krings and Pierre Kosciuscko-Morizet). The young company started in the first quarter of 2010 and is fully integrated with … Continue reading →

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