TECH CRUNCH - Nov 22 - Smartdate announced a €2M round in Feb of this year so that people can start dating friends of their Facebook friends. But now Smartdate has raised an additional €3.5M with the fonders of PriceMinster, Pierre Kosciuscko-Morizet and Pierre Krings. Smartdate is rapidly developing and already has a 25 person team in place. The company is very similar to Zoosk in that it is basing its online dating service on Facebook. Smartdate has users connecting via Facebook Connect and requires that you be at least 18 in order to access the Smartdater community. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
Mark Brooks: Smartdate started out with a 300k Euro round, then quickly added an additional 1.7m Euro in February.
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Good luck to Smartdate ;)
Posted by: Frank | Nov 23, 2010 at 04:54 AM
I registered 2 weeks ago. So far I have got messages from 8 different girls. All of them Fakes who want me to write them on their private email accounts outside Smartdate.
They definitively have a huge spam / scam problem.
Posted by: Christian | Nov 30, 2010 at 07:36 AM
Sorry Christian you've had a bad experience, we're doing our best to remove those profiles, and have a whole team devoted to moderation.
Many other people have had positive experiences and I hope you'll give us another try.
Posted by: Fabrice Le Parc | Nov 30, 2010 at 10:53 AM
How can I know that search for single people is exactly among friends of my friends?
Posted by: Kateryna | Dec 21, 2010 at 10:17 AM
I used the service of Smartdate for three months and I am more than satisfied with it as I finally found the woman for me, Emma. It was not so easy because as it always happens in all contact sites there were some scammers that make you waste some time. It was definitely worth it though as it has been six months allready that Emma and I are together in a wonderful relationship.
Posted by: Alex | Apr 13, 2011 at 05:53 AM
It works well for me, I did manage to find friends of friends through the facebook. Easy, fast and discreet.
Posted by: Barry | May 06, 2011 at 05:17 AM
To me it's been working ok, really like the chat and the design. I did report few fake profiles but guess, they managed to filter those out now, not seeing any of those Africans or whatnot any longer.
Posted by: Ted | May 18, 2011 at 04:22 AM