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.