Dating site Zoosk raises $4.1M
June 12, 2008 | Eric Eldon
Social network dating application Zoosk has raised $4.1 million from Canaan Partners, with participation from existing investors Amidzad Ventures and ATA Ventures.
The San Francisco company claims it has more than 400,000 daily unique visitors across its applications on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, and is growing up to seven percent a week. It competes most directly with other social network dating applications like Frengo’s Flirtable. Press release with more details here.
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Tags: co:zoosk, inv:amidzad ventures, inv:ATA-Ventures, inv:Canaan-Partners
Eric currently covers digital media technology and business, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He writes and edits stories about lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a now-failed startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers.
