PAID CONTENT - July 27 - Triangulate, a startup trying to build an online dating business on Facebook, has raised $750,000 from Trinity Ventures and Playdom Chairman Rick Thompson. Triangulate is the latest so-called “social dating” site to attract interest from investors; Zoosk, the most established player in the market, has raised more than $40M, while SmartDate, raised $2.2 M in March. Triangulate’s Facebook app, called Wings, uses data from a member’s Facebook profile, as well as from their accounts on Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Twitter and Foursquare, to automatically generate a basic dating profile for them, which includes topics they are interested in, where they like to hang out, and who their friends tend to be.
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Triangulate must have some serious connections to be able to raise this sort of money from the begining. Good luck to them.
Posted by: Dating Helen | Jul 27, 2010 at 05:18 PM
I worry about the accuracy of the social data. A Facebook "friend" is not the same as a personal friend. Also from my experience using Facebook targeted advertising it seems that there is a lot of inaccurate information in the member data.
Posted by: Lawrence Chernin | Jul 28, 2010 at 11:02 AM