Internet Dating Acquisitions

Companies sold

- MaybeFriends, price unknown, February 2012, acquired by AnotherFriend

- Woo Media, price unknown, November 2011, acquired by Zoosk

- Yahoo, $190M stake, October 2011, sold its stake in BharatMatrimony

- Friend.ly, $5.5M, October 2011, acquired by Facebook

- Zhenai, 20% stake, September 2011, acquired by Match.com

- JigoCity, $65M, September 2011, acquired by FriendFinder Network

- AondeNamoro.com and SolteirosComFilhos.com, August 2011, $0.75M, acquired by Cupid plc

- Meetic, 76% stake, August 2011, acquired by Match.com

- PerfectMatch.com, price unknown, July 2011, acquired by FriendFinder Network

- OnlineLiebe GmbH, €2.75M (75% stake), June 2011, acquired by Cupid plc

- WomenWeb GmbH, €2.75M (75% stake), June 2011, acquired by Cupid plc

- IndianDating.com, $200,000, February 2011, acquired by Cupid plc

- OkCupid, $90M, February 2011, acquired by Match.com

- 12like GmbH, price uknown, January 2011, acquired by Parship

- Flirt.com, £800,000, December 2010, acquired by Easydate

- Lavalife, price unknown, November 2010, acquired by First Media Group

- Cupid’s Coach, price uknown, September 2010, acquired by eLove

- Cupid.com, £4.4M, September 2010, acquired by EasyDate

- PlanetSappho, £200,000, September 2010, acquired by EasyDate

- Granamor, £25,000, September 2010, acquired by EasyDate

- TraditionalSingleCatholics, price uknown, July 2010, acquired by CatholicMatch.com

- Dating.com domain, $1.75M, May 2010, acquired by unknown

- Allegran, price uknown, April 2010, acquired by EasyDate

- Singlesnet, price uknown, February 2010, acquired by Match.com

- MakeFriendsOnline.com, price uknown, November 2009, acquired by Anotherfriend.com

- Pre-Dating.com, price uknown, October 2009, re-acquired by its original founders

- DList.com, price uknown (majority stake), September 2009, acquired by OnlineBuddies (Manhunt.net)

- Oasis Active, 40% stake, September 2009, acquired by Network Ten

- Bentelhalal, $85M, August 2009, acquired by Yahoo!

- People Media, $80M, July 2009, acquired by Match.com

- Meetic, 27% stake, June 2009, by Match.com (exchanged for European operations)

- Engage.com, price uknown, April 2009, acquired by Spark Networks

- PlanetOut, $4.7M, January 2009, acquired by Regent and Here Network

- Better, price uknown, September 2008, acquired by Tsavo Media

- Mamba.ru, 30% stake, August 2008, acquired by Mail.ru

- Plutolife, $3.7M, July 2008, acquired by Jumbuck

- SpeedDater, price uknown, March 2008, acquired by EasyDate

- HotOrNot, $20M, February 2008, acquired by Avid Life Media

- RegionalHelpWanted.com, $100M, February 2008, acquired by onTargetJobs

- Senior.com, $1.8M, December 2007, acquired by FriendFinder (Various)

- LovingYou, price uknown, December 2007, acquired by SheKnows.com

- Various (FriendFinder), price uknown, December 2007, acquired by Penthouse Media

- Inferno, £3M, November 2007, acquired by Loopylove.com

- Facebook, $240M (1,6% stake), October 2007, acquired by Microsoft

- AshleyMadison, price uknown, August 2007, acquired by Avid Life Media

- PlanetOut, $26.2M (56% of company), July 2007, acquired by Cascade Investment, SF Capital Partners, PAR Investment Partners, Allen & Co

- Zencon (BlackPeopleMeet), price uknown, June 2007, acquired by American Capital Strategies

- Netclub, price uknown, June 2007, acquired by Match.com

- eDodo, price uknown, June 2007, acquired by Match.com

- HurryDate, price uknown, February 2007, acquired by Spark Network

- DatingDirect and Chemistry.co.uk, £27.3 million, January 2007, acquired by Meetic

- LoopyLove and GirlsDateForFree, £4.4M, May 2006, acquired by Daily Mail

- Think Partnership (online dating properties), $21M cash and $9M unregistered common stock, March 2006, acquired by MWXI

- Litmus Media, $6.5M in cash and $6.5M stock and earnout payments for shareholders up to a maximum aggregate of $21M, December 2005, acquired by Think Partnership

- iLead Media, $7M in cash and $7M in common stock, December 2005, acquired by Think Partnership

- RSVP, $38.9M, July 2005, acquired by Fairfax Media

- Predating, price uknown, November 2004, acquired by Cupid.com

- KissyKat, price uknown, October 2004, acquired by Incode Corporation

Investment Rounds

 - Youja.cn, 2011, $3M, invested by VC funds at UMC Capital, The9 and World Trend Ventures

- Ignighter (StepOut), January 2012, $1.8M, invested by Adam Sachs, Dan Osit, Alfred Levitt, Sean Marsh, Somak Chattopadhyay

- eCift, €3M, December 2011, invested by 3TS Capital Partners

- HowAboutWe, $15M, November 2011, invested by Khosla Ventures with participation from RRE, invested by FF Ventura

- Zin.gl, $600K, May 2011, invested by angel investors

- iWould, $750K, April 2011, invested by private investor

- Snap Interactive, $8.5M, January 2011, private placement transaction

- Smartdate, €3.5M, November 2010, invested by fonders of PriceMinster, Pierre Kosciuscko-Morizet and Pierre Krings

- HowAboutWe, $3.1M, November 2010, invested by RRE Ventura

- FriendFinder Networks, $551M, October 2010

- Triangulate, $750K, July 2010, invested by Rick Thomson (Playdom Chairman)

- EasyDate, £10M, June 2010, invested by AIM Flotation

- ReputationDefender, $15M, June 2010, invested by JAFCO Ventura with Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

- Smartdate, €1.7M, March 2010, invested by European VC 360 Capital Partners

- Lovestruck.com, £285K, January 2010, invested by a group of highly successful dotcom entrepreneurs, as well as a venture capital fund managed by London-based E-Synergy Ltd.

- Zoosk, $30M, December 2009, invested by Bessemer Venture Partners

- Thread, $1.2M, September 2009, invested by Silicon Valley First Round Capital, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, fbFund, and a number of independent investors, including Ron Conway, David Sacks, Auren Hoffman, Pedro Miguel Martins, Reid Hoffman, Joe Greenstein, Saran Chari, and Shervin Pishevar.

- Ten Network, amount unknown, September 2009, invested by  Oasis Active

- Virtual Goods, $69M, June 2009, IMVU, invested by ngmoco, Nurien, Offerpal Media, Ohai, OMGPOP, OneSeason.com, Scrapblog, Viximo, Free Melons

- Zoosk, $6M, June 2009

- Viximo, $5M, April 2009, invested by North Bridge and Sigma

- Be2, €15M, November 2008, invested by Index Ventura

- SpeedDate.com, $8M, October 2008, invested by VC funding

- Ignighter, $1.2M, October 2008, Angel funding

- SpeedDate.com, $6M, August 2008, invested by Menlo Ventura

- Zoosk, $4.1M, June 2008, invested by Canaan Partners and ATA Ventura

- Woome, $12,5M, June 2008, invested by Index Ventures with existing investors Atomico and Mangrove Capital Partners also participating

- Jangl, $9M, May 2008, invested by unding from Storm Ventures, Labrador Ventures and Cardinal Ventura

- Iovation, $5M, February 2008, invested by SAP Ventures and European Founders ($5M)

- Woome, $3M, February 2008, invested by Mangrove, Atomico, Klaus Hammels and newcomer Oliver Jung

- BharatMatrimony.com, $11.75M, February 2008, invested by Mayfield Fund, Yahoo! and Canaan Partners

- Iovation, $10M, November 2007, invested by Intel Capital

- IceBreaker, $7.2M, June 2007

- MeetMoi, $1.5M, June 2007, invested by Acadia Woods Partners

- Love21cn.com, $5.2M, April 2007, invested by New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (Nasdaq: EDU): Xu Xiaoping, Wang Qiang and Qian Yongqiang

- WorldFriends Networks, $2.5M, March 2007, invested by industry veterans including the co-founders of Lavalife.com, Nicholas Paine and Bruce Crohn

- TellMe, $239M, January 2007

- OkCupid, $6M, January 2007, invested by a group of angels

- Shaadi, $8M, March 2006, invested by India's WestBridge Captital Partners

- Engage, $5M, year 2006, invested by Advanced Tech Ventures

- eHarmony, $110M, December 2004, invested by two Silicon Valley venture capital firms, Sequoia Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures