Category: Grouper

Grouper: Group Dating to Get You Offline

Posted on September 5, 2011

Grouper logo YOUR TANGO – Sep 5 – Two Yale grads, Jerry Guo, 23, and Michael Waxman, 24, launched Grouper in June 2011. Grouper is an online social club (currently only in New York City) whose goal is to get you offline as quick as possible. First, you sign up for free. Once you're accepted (there's a waitlist) and matched with a compatible person, Grouper will give you a date, time and a reserved table at a hot location in the city. You bring two friends, your match brings two friends, and for $20 a head, you get your first round of drinks on the house. Unlike other dating sites, there is no physical Grouper "site," you don't have a profile, and there's no way to check out your match and his friends before you meet them in person.

by Faye Brennan
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Meet People Less Awkwardly with Grouper

Posted on July 11, 2011

Grouper screenshot HUFFINGTON POST – July 9 – Grouper is a social service that gets you offline, and out meeting real people. Grouper, which is currently only available in New York City, matches groups of three girls with three boys, by looking at interests, ages and more. The service matches online information from your Facebook profile with a human matchmaker looking to get you talking to strangers. To get Groupered, users can go to the site and connect with Facebook to apply. Once they are connected, they answer three questions, with the same 140-character restriction on responses as Twitter. The user who signed up brings two friends to the meetup. Grouper charges $20 per person and picks the location of the meeting place, as well as providing the first round of drinks for free. Users pay online beforehand and list the times they'd be available to meet.

by Amy Lee
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