LAWSTREET MEDIA – Apr 30 – On Monday, Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of California issued an order granting Facebook's motion to dismiss the antitrust lawsuit brought against it filed by three web developers – Reveal Chat Holdco, USA Technology and Management Services, and Beehive Biometric – finding the plaintiffs' claims time-barred. Facebook was sued for "removing access to a set of APIs in 2015 that Plaintiffs relied on for their mobile apps."
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LikeBright Morphs Into Reveal, A New Anonymous Chat App
GEEKWIRE – Sep 18 – LikeBright, the social dating company that participated in the Techstars Seattle program in 2011, reeled in money from Microsoft Ventures and prominent investors, and acquiring other startups, is shifting gears and launching a new anonymous chat app. So why didn’t LikeBright work out? While Reveal is mobile-only, LikeBright was on desktop and aggregated information from Facebook to help match those looking for a partner. The company has raised another $1M this year to build Reveal. In beta tests, Reveal had 6K chatting users send more than 800K messages. More than 60% of those chatters returned to the app.
by Taylor Soper
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LikeBright Acquires MatchMate
PR NEWSWIRE – Dec 31 – LikeBright, a dating platform that matches Facebook friends of friends, has acquired MatchMate, a matchmaking software company. MatchMate was founded in 2012 by several Utah entrepreneurs, including John Richards who also invests in LikeBright's current round and serves on its advisory board.
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LikeBright Raising Additional $1M In Funding
GEEKWIRE – Dec 20 – Seattle based online dating startup LikeBright is raising a $1 million round that would increase total funding to $2.25 million. The company will use the funds to hire developers and operations staff, and build a mobile app. Seattle entrepreneur Rudy Gadre has already joined with a $250,000 investment.
by Taylor Soper
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Acquaintable Is Now A Part Of LikeBright
OPW – Oct 22 – LikeBright, a dating sites that connects friends of friends, is acquiring another social dating site Acquaintable. Joel Rodriguez, Co-founder and CEO of Acquaintable, will be joining LikeBright as an advisor.
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LikeBright Lets You Play Matchmaker With Your Friends Online
MASHABLE – Mar 12 – 2013 SXSW Accelerator Finalist LikeBright is offering a new way for people to meet potential dates: through online introductions from their friends. "Women don’t trust strangers on dating sites,” said Nick Soman, founder and CEO of LikeBright. Like Bright is backed by Microsoft’s Bing Fund and angels including Rudy Gadre, former general counsel for Facebook, and Dr. Galen Buckwalter, scientific founder of eHarmony.
Brian Bowman: Facebook Is Primed To Disrupt Online Dating
TECH CRUNCH – Jan 25 – Men and women experience online dating very differently. Men typically send out hundreds of emails hoping someone will respond. Women can receive hundreds of emails a week, but respond to less than 2%. Most dating profiles are static and lack social network updates. For most social discovery startups, there is a significant cold-start problem. Few startups are funded well enough to afford the marketing required to achieve scale. No social dating site has gained meaningful traction: theComplete.me (10K), Yoke (10K), Circl.es (1K), LikeBright (1K), thedatable (200), and atthepool.com have struggled. With Graph Search, can Facebook reinvent dating, drive down the associated stigma? Just because someone’s profile indicates they are single does not mean they are ready for dating. On Facebook, receiving messages from strangers feels creepy. Facebook’s profiles are shallow. The real question may be how important is the dating market to Facebook? It will be a challenge to run so many vertical solutions: dating, recruiting, ratings, reviews, etc. Facebook can easily leverage their massive social graph to enable meaningful friend-of-friend introductions. They can create very detailed, self-updating profiles by displaying and structuring data from Pinterest, Spotify, Pandora, Yelp, Netflix, Amazon, ESPN, GoodReads and more. They can dominate real-time communication: chat, check-ins, poke, texting and Skype video chat.
LikeBright Received New Funding
GEEKWIRE – Jan 16 – LikeBright, the online dating site that taps into the power of social networks to find one’s perfect match, has received funding from the Bing Fund, the newly-formed investment vehicle of Microsoft’s search engine. “Most single people meet their partners through friends, and lots of people like to set their friends up,” said founder Nick Soman. “We give them a simple, social and safe way to do this online." Soman declined to disclose the size of the investment from the Bing Fund. LikeBright previously raised $650,000.
by John Cook
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LikeBright: Safer Dating for Women
TECH FLASH – Oct 21 - Founders Nick Soman, Sonya Lai and Ron Lai say they want to make dating simple, social and safe for women, by letting them vouch for — and ask questions about — guys on Facebook. "Women don’t like the lack of trust and transparency on existing dating sites, and that they prefer to meet people through friends", said the founders. "We’re building a dating layer on Facebook to help women meet people through the people they trust."
by Aislyn Greene
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