Category: Lunch Actually
LunchClick Changes The Way Singles Communicate
PRESS RELEASE – Mar 20 – Asia's dating app for serious daters LunchClick recently introduced a new communication feature. Singles can now create their own personalized questions and send to their matches without the social awkwardness of being too straight-forward. LunchClick, a dating app developed by the team behind Lunch Actually Group, entirely removes the use of chatting in its platform because chatting rarely leads to real dates. In previous version, singles could communicate with each other from the limited list of pre-set Q&As on LunchClick. Now ~500 customized Q&As has been created.
Lunch Actually Raised 7-digit From A Japanese Social Network
E27 – Sep 6 – Lunch Actually, the Singapore-based premium dating platform, will use the new capital to ramp up presence in existing markets – Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia as well as expand to one new market. The investors are: Sat.1 mixi, Japanese social media network and publisher of mobile game Monster Strikea and Fatfish, a VP and development firm.
by Yon Heong Tun
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Fierce Competition Between Dating Apps In Asia
SEA GLOBE – Feb 24 – Southeast Asian users have caught on to the mobile dating trend, with local dating apps – such as Thailand-based Noonswoon, Peekawoo in the Philippines, Indonesia's Wavoo and Singapore's LunchClick. Paktor is one of Asian's biggest dating apps, boasting 6M users in six key Asian markets. Competition is fierce. Paktor is the only dating app out of 13 that entered the Southeast Asian market at the same time that is still standing. Capturing market share in Southeast Asia involves understanding the social norms of each country. While most of Paktor's advertising in Singapore appears online, regional marketing director Shn Juay says the company adopted a different tack in Indonesia. "We go into university campuses and identify people who could be influencers. We let them try the app, and then share it through word of mouth."
Dating App LunchClick Killed In-App Chat
TECHINASIA – Nov 7 – LunchClick is a new dating app from a Singapore-based dating agency, Lunch Actually. It takes a few hours for users to go from downloading the app to using it. Every profile is exhaustively verified by humans to keep out creeps, fakers, and scammers. Users can’t engage in small talk via in-app chat. There’s no endless swiping either, as they only get one match a day. Instead of chat, LunchClick devised a Q&A-style interaction where matches take turns asking questions chosen from a predefined list. The app charges entry fees for singles meetup events, and will soon make money from restaurant booking fees, in-app purchases, and gifts.
by Terence Lee
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Lunch Actually Acquires Thailand’s #1 Matchmaking Company
PRESS RELEASE – Oct 1 – Lunch Actually, Singapore based high-end matchmaking company, has acquired MeetNLunch, the number one matchmaking service for busy professionals in Thailand. This acquisition comes after Lunch Actually Group's recent launch of its dating app, LunchClick, in April 2015, as well as its expansion into Jakarta in October 2014. To date, LunchActually has ~400K members. Last year their revenue grew ~50% and hit a new revenue milestone of $5M. MeetNLunch has been connecting singles in Thailand since 2006.
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Lunch Actually CEO To Speak At iDate Beijing
IDATE – Apr 28 – Violet Lim, the CEO at Lunch Actually will discuss the Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia online dating markets. The iDate (Internet dating conference) will be held in Beijing next month (May 28 – 29, 2015) at the Crowne Plaza Beijing Chaoyang U-Town in China. Chinese Mobile Phone Manufacturer Xiaomi, and Daniel Haigh, Co-Founder of Oasis, will also speak at the event.
Lunch Actually Buys LOLA Dating App
TECH IN ASIA – Oct 16 – Mobile dating app Love Out Loud Asia (LOLA) received seed funding from FatFish Medialab, made 350K matches, and paired over 10Ksingles across Southeast Asia. This acquisition arms Lunch Actually for the first time with a mobile-oriented service. The LOLA team will launch a new version of app in early 2015 for both iOS and Android.
by Terence Lee
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Lunch Actually Plays Cupid To Wealthy Singles
THE STRAITS TIMES – July 25 – Lunch Actually, the high-end matchmaking service, is on the expansion path. It has built up annual revenue to S$1 million ($793K) in eight years and head count to about 30. It recently launched Lunch Actually Platinum. The premium matchmaking service targets people earning more than $397K a year. Lunch Actually has also partnered with MeetnLunch.com, a matchmaking and online dating service in Thailand.
by Yunita Ong
The full article was originally published at The Jakarta Post, but is no longer available.
Lunch Actually Platinum Caters To The Wealthy
CHANNEL NEWS ASIA – June 28 – Lunch Actually Platinum, a new service by dating agency Lunch Actually, targets clients with an annual salary of over S$500K ($390K), and who are either business owners or hold a position of seniority in a company. Clients are charged between S$5K ($3.9K) and S$20K ($15.5K). Ms Violet Lim, CEO and co-founder of the dating agency, said she has received many requests from her existing clients for such high end matchmaking services.
by Sumita Sreedharan
The full article was originally published at Channel News Asia, but is no longer available.