INDIAN EXPRESS – SwoonMe, a dating app that started in July 2021, is focusing on avatars and audio. Tanvi Gupta, SwoonMe's co-founder and former Meta employee, said the aim is to build "a platform where users can connect, with 'Avatars' being their primary medium of identity." Once the profile is created, the app will guide a user with prompts on how to record an audio introduction. This audio snippet or description is another critical part of the profile on SwoonMe app. Two users must have sent a certain number of 'audio' messages before the text chat option opens. Launched in India in January this year, the app already has 25K monthly active users.
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Dating App SwoonMe Raises $1M
LINKEDIN – This is the second round of funding. The company had previously raised $200K in its first seed round from angel investors last year after its July launch. The startup claims ~50K downloads after launching in India. SwoonMe is a voice-first dating app.
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Ex-product Facebook Specialist Is Launching a Dating App That Uses Real Human Voices
YOUR STORY – Tanvi and Rishabh Gupta launched SwoonMe in the US and India as a voice-first dating app. "It is very easy to filter and completely change the way you look in profile photos but it's hard to fake your voice. A person's voice shows emotion, personality, sociability, and so much more", Tanvi explains. Tanvi moved to the US at the age of 16, for higher education and has an MBA degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee. She worked on Wall Street with Morgan Stanley and Citi Group. She also met her husband and moved to the Bay Area – joining Facebook to work on Messenger and Instagram for three years. When the pandemic hit, she felt it was time to move on from Facebook.
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SwoonMe Dating App Uses Avatars and Audio
TECH CRUNCH – July 8 – SwoonMe aims to fix the problem with superficial dating apps, where users primarily make decisions based on how someone looks. Instead of swiping through profiles, SwoonMe's idea is to use a combination of avatars and audio to encourage users to connect based on someone's personality. To use the app, users take a selfie which SwoonMe converts into an avatar. They then record a voice clip to tell others about themselves and what they're looking for in a partner. The idea for SwoonMe comes from Tanvi Gupta, a former Facebook product specialist who was involved with a number of high-profile products, including those that shipped in Messenger and in Instagram Direct, such as Messenger reactions, a Messenger redesign, chat heads on Android, and more. Currently, SwoonMe is targeting the dating markets of San Francisco and L.A., but is open to anyone who wants to try it. The startup is a small team and currently working to raise $1M in seed funding.