November 22nd, 2010

Smartdate scores another €3.5 million with the PriceMinister boys

Smartdate announced a €2 million round in February of this year so that you could stop poking and start actually dating the friends of your Facebook friends. But now the company is kicking it up a notch and announcing that it’s raised an additional €3.5 million with the fonders of PriceMinster, Pierre Kosciuscko-Morizet and Pierre Krings. Oh, and just in case you forgot, French Ebay competitor… → Read More

November 21st, 2010

Smartdate Takes Another €3.5 Million So You Can Stop Poking and Start Dating

Smartdate announced a €2 million round in February of this year so that you could stop poking and start actually dating the friends of your Facebook friends. But now the company is kicking it up a notch and announcing that it’s raised an additional €3.5 million with the fonders of PriceMinster, Pierre Kosciuscko-Morizet and Pierre Krings. Oh, and just in case you forgot, French Ebay competitor… → Read More

March 2nd, 2010

Smartdate secures €2m so you can date friends of your Facebook friends

[France] Paris based dating service Smartdate has raised €1.7 million with European VC 360 Capital Partners.

Smartdate, which previously secured Angel investment from four international Business Angels for a total of €300,000, was founded by Fabrice Le Parc, who also launched be2.com in France and Benelux in 2006-07. This €2 million total amount of seed funding (one of the largest in France→ Read More