be2 Raises €15 Million

PRESS RELEASE -- Nov 12 -- be2, a  global matchmaking site with more than 12m members in 34 countries, received an investment of €15m from the Index Ventures growth fund. be2 will use the capital to further international expansion and increase its user base in existing markets.

Mark Brooks: Keep your eyes on this company.  One to watch.  ;-)

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[Fernando Ardenghi]

"Keep your eyes on this company. One to watch. ;-)"

You are right Mr. Brooks. You need to watch Be2 because I had detected some fraudulent lovestories since last May 2008. And they are still fraudulent!!!

Nearly the same story in different countries.

- Argentinean site says
Silvia from Cádiz and Juanjo from Girona
http://www.be2.com.ar/guest/lovestories.jsp?page=lovestory&storyid=91
Cádiz, Girona and Jerez are in Spain

- Chilean site says
Silvia from Cádiz and Juanjo from Girona
http://www.be2.cl/guest/lovestories.jsp?page=lovestory&storyid=96
Cádiz, Girona and Jerez are in Spain

- Mexican site says
Silvia from Cuernavaca and Juanjo from Acapulco
http://www.be2.com.mx/guest/lovestories.jsp?page=lovestory&storyid=66

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- Italian site
http://www.be2.it/guest/lovestories.jsp?page=lovestories
Luciana, 31 anni, consulente finanziaria, e Sebastiano, 35 anni, architetto
Manuela, 34 anni, giornalista e Max, 36 anni, consulente in proprio
Tina, 33 anni, designer e Christian, 38 anni, commercante di vini

- Portuguese site
http://www.be2.pt/guest/lovestories.jsp?page=lovestories
Carolina, 31 anos, consultora financeira e Sebastião, 35 anos, arquitecto.
Marta, 34 anos, jornalista e Sílvio, 36 anos, consultor.
Tina, 33 anos, designer e Christian, 38 anos, comerciante de vinhos

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- Brazilian site
http://www.be2.com.br/guest/lovestories.jsp?page=lovestory&storyid=57
- Argentinean site
http://www.be2.com.ar/guest/lovestories.jsp?page=lovestory&storyid=90

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- Colombian site
http://www.co.be2.com/guest/lovestories.jsp?page=lovestory&storyid=445
- Spanish site
http://www.be2.es/guest/lovestories.jsp?page=lovestory&storyid=205

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- Colombian site
http://www.co.be2.com/guest/lovestories.jsp?page=lovestory&storyid=442
- French site
http://www.be2.fr/guest/lovestories.jsp?page=lovestory&storyid=279
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and many more!

Does Be 2 think persons are stupid?

Be2:
Fee is USD 240 per year.
Be2 uses a Pseudo Normative Personality Test in different languages.
http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=be2scshotxw1.jpg
Results are points in bars and compatibility is expressed with a "be2 Index", a 3 integer figure, like 105, 67, 92, etc. It resembles WeAttract's tests and results.
http://img248.imageshack.us/my.php?image=be2resultsyq4.jpg
As Parship, Ulteem, Corazona and others, reverse engineer (whith dummy profiles of men and women I had invented and used as tests points) clearly shows the whole precision of Be2's matchmaking process is less than any person could had achieved searching by his/her own!!!

As Parship, Ulteem and others, there is not any Scientific Paper PEER REVIEWED that substantiate "be2 is the professional, scientifically based personal introduction service for creating lasting relationships."
http://www.be2.com/tourpage/page1

http://www.be2.com.au/tourpage/page1
"be2 is trusted by millions of people on 5 continents"
http://www.be2.com/tourpage/page1
"be2 is trusted by millions of people on 6 continents"

8.161.973 registered members! 13 May 2008
7.951.773 registered members! 02 May 2008
http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=be2scshot02mayka6.jpg

Diff: 210.200 nearly 19.100 new users per day? Seems as inflating.

12.319.994 registered members! 12 Nov 2008
12.319.994 - 7.951.773 == 4.368.221

4.368.221 / 164 days nearly 26.635 new users per day?
How many of them are subscribers?

How a prospective client could differentiate Be2 from Ulteem and Be2 from Parship? They all three have a whole precision of their matchmaking algorithms less than any person could had achieved searching by his/her own!!!

Regards,

Fernando Ardenghi.
from Buenos Aires. Argentina.
[email protected]