PRESS RELEASE – LuvHut, a dating app founded in Boston, is acquiring Dive, an event-based platform for singles. The platform allows users to book dates directly in the app while helping partnered restaurants increase visibility and reservations from LuvHut users. To date, LuvHut has raised $460K and plans to use these funds to bolster its footprint across New England and Florida after the acquisition of Dive.
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THE TOP 100 MAGAZINE – Cory Gorovitz is the founder of LuvHut, a new video-based dating app.
Q: What inspired you to create LuvHut and how the app works.
A: I have always enjoyed solving problems and finding new methods to address antiquated practices. This is very much the case with dating apps. LuvHut is a video-based platform. Our algorithms provide compatibility percentages for each match. Users can then send date requests, and earn various rewards like crypto for each date that's booked.
Q: How is LuvHut making the dating search easier and more effective?
A: We enable users to book seamless dates, whether they be solo or group, through our HotSpot portal. Plus we've eliminated catfish.
Q: How can people get your app or become part of LuvHut?
A: It will be available for both iOS and Android this spring and singles can sign up through our website and social media. As of today, we're close to 7K users on our waitlist.
Q: How did you raise funding early on?
A: I started it myself with $40K. On January 7, 2022, we announced our partnership with TechRupt Innovations, a startup accelerator, and they're investing $330K at a $1.65M valuation. We are also seeing interest from angel and VC investors to scale our efforts.
OPW – LuvHut, a new Boston-based startup that combines online dating, social networking, entertainment and Crypto, is partnering with startup accelerator TechRupt Innovations to bolster its development and growth. The TechRupt partnership is valuing LuvHut at $1.65M. LuvHut is a video-based platform that allows users to book instant Solo or Group dates. For every date that's booked, users will be rewarded in Crypto. "Our goal is to get users from match to date in less than 5 days", says LuvHut founder & CEO Cory Gorovitz who hopes to solve problems created by too much time spent using dating apps. LuvHut is launching in beta in Spring 2022, with 6K users already on the waitlist.