Dating Startup Ideas

5 months ago

A dating app that connects people who want to buy sex with people looking to sell.

5,845

1 month ago

A startup that weaves social connections into a dating app.

611

1 year ago

A dating app that focuses on the small things.

371

2 years ago

Using machine learning, Connect is building a platform that sorts through the clutter of online dating platforms to find the best match. The startup is currently in the process of raising its Series A.

211

2 years ago

A dating app that matches people based on similar musical preferences.

210

2 years ago

This startup wants to be the Netflix of dating. It wants to connect couples by matching them based on what they’re looking for in a partner. It also wants to keep track of everything couples do together.

209

2 years ago

A dating app for people who want to have casual sex, focused on avoiding pressure from other users. The app is meant to be a safe place for people who want to do something that’s not going to last.

201

2 years ago

A startup that creates a dating app focused on building meaningful relationships

191

2 years ago

A startup that works like a dating site but for people who want to find a house or apartment to rent

184

2 years ago

A dating app for breakfast in the morning.

174

2 years ago

A company that makes it easy to manage your own online dating profile and have it reviewed by online professionals.

167

2 years ago

A dateable dating app, not unlike Bumble.

166

2 years ago

A platform where people can create a profile and upload photos of themselves to be rated by other users. The site is mostly for fun at this point, but it could be a useful tool for dating.

162

2 years ago

A customized AI-powered chatbot that helps you optimize your online dating experience.

159

2 years ago

Based in Silicon Valley, this startup is working to make the process of filling out IRS forms less intimidating.

154

2 years ago

A free, online dating service for very short-term relationships.

154

2 years ago

An AI-powered dating site for people looking for long-term relationships.

152

2 years ago

A dating app that helps people find matches regardless of what they’re looking for in a relationship. The startup has attracted more than $10 million in investment, and has partnered with celebrities like Shaquille O’Neal, who was one of the app’s first users.

149

2 years ago

Another company looking to build a social media platform for dating, focusing on the Latinx market in the US.

143

2 years ago

The founders of an AI-powered dating app want to use their product as a platform for investors to invest in AI startups.

143

1 year ago

A dating app for “extraverts”.

143

2 years ago

"The world’s first social dating app for underrepresented groups,” which is to say, people of color.

142

1 year ago

A dating app for professional singles.

139

2 years ago

Mixer is a dating app for people who want to meet others in a more social setting. It’s an app like Tinder, but it’s free to use and allows users to pay to chat with others.

138

2 years ago

An SDK for automatically creating, updating, and publishing content to social media.

138

11 months ago

A dating app for people living in the US that claims to be “better than Tinder”, with features like a “health score”, a “work score”, and a “social score”

137

2 years ago

A “Tinder for online dating”, allowing users to view profiles and swipe right to like what they see.

131

1 year ago

A dating app that estimates an individual's sexual attractiveness.

129

2 years ago

This startup is building a white-label version of the popular dating app Hinge.

128

2 years ago

An online dating platform for young people that focuses on their education and career. The company wants to normalize youth dating by making it easier and more attractive to have a career as well as a dating life.

124

2 years ago

SaaS to help companies establish a culture with their employees. The company works by creating a team mix that fits each company’s culture, with a focus on mandating company culture.

123

2 years ago

A startup that combines the forms of a dating app, matchmakers, and a freelance marketplace. Like others in the space, Zoosk wants to make it easier for people to find jobs, but unlike others it’s only for women.

123

2 years ago

A group of entrepreneurs working to redesign the dating app from the ground up.

120

2 years ago

A media company that aims to help keep written content up to date by automatically updating articles with the latest information.

119

2 years ago

A dating app that serves to connect people with the same interests through a private group. It is a spinoff of the successful PopSurvey, which was acquired by LinkedIn

118

2 years ago

A software-as-a-service company building a platform for online dating users.

103

2 years ago

(Note: This is an ongoing list, and I’m adding to it as soon as I hear about new startup pitches every week. I’ll keep updating when necessary.)

102

2 years ago

A company that wants to build a local dating app in the US for people in the LGBTQ community.

102

1 year ago

A tool that lets customers pitch their startups to investors in a “speed dating” style pitch.

102

1 year ago

A video-chatting app that allows you to meet new people in a safe environment. The startup is building a community that lets you meet new people without having to go through the hassle of setting up a meetup or paying for online dating.

100

1 year ago

A cloud-based review platform for dating apps, with a funding round that was reportedly led by Facebook

96

4 months ago

A dating app for polyamorous people with over 10,000 users so far.

96

4 months ago

A Y Combinator alumni company that hopes to bring the concept of a “pickup artist” to students, in the form of a “dating coach”.

93

2 years ago

A dating platform that lets people find love by matching them based on their interests.

90

4 months ago

A startup for people who want to collect money for their online dating profiles

83

4 months ago

Next Door is a dating service for divorced people who’ve lost contact with their exes. The app offers a community of divorced/separated people who can share advice on dates and relationships.

82

2 years ago

A startup that wants to bring a “hybrid” approach to the online dating market, focusing on creating a community for people to find dates on the platform, but also connecting them with people they know in real life.

80

1 year ago

A platform for online dating aimed at the well-educated, attractive, and well-off.

77

1 year ago

This startup wants to be the next generation of online dating. Their product, LoveButler, is a software that helps people find dates based on personality.

75

7 months ago

A dating site for people who don’t want to date people of the opposite sex.

73

1 year ago

A student loan refinancing company that helps borrowers get out of student debt by consolidating all their loans into one. It aims to make this process as simple as possible by allowing borrowers to make payments via their credit cards.

72

1 year ago

A social network where users can ask and answer questions about various topics like dating, fashion, and fitness.

72

1 year ago

Blockchain-based dating platform for people who are already in relationships.

72

1 year ago

A company that provides a kind of dating website for heterosexual gay and bisexual people. It’s different from Tinder because it has a very comprehensive user interface, and has a gay-couple feature that allows you to see other couples in your area.

72

1 year ago

A combination of a private messaging app and a dating app, allowing users to send and receive text messages from both their phones and an app.

71

1 year ago

A dating platform for men seeking women, with a heavy emphasis on education. The company has already raised $1.4M after announcing the startup in December, with investors including former CEO of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.

71

1 year ago

A video messaging platform for young people, with the goal of connecting users to one another for relationships, friendship, and dating.

70

2 years ago

A platform to create custom, private, and secure online video chat rooms for a variety of uses, including recruitment, dating, and customer support.

69

7 months ago

A dating app that aims to help you meet people by matching you with your friends.

69

1 year ago

A dating app for people with mental illness. The app asks you to rate your symptoms and asks you how you interact with people, giving you a score between 0 and 10 based on how likely you are to get into a fight or be abusive.

68

1 year ago

A dating app that connects single people in their 20s and 30s.

68

1 year ago

This startup helps companies manage their customer service through an automated chat bot on Facebook Messenger. Its first customer is Zoosk, the dating site and app maker.

67

1 year ago

A dating app focused on people who want to date people with the same lifestyle as them, but don’t want to date someone who’s too far out of their comfort zone.

67

1 year ago

A dating app for the elderly, for the first time giving older adults a way to look for love in their own neighborhood. The app is designed to be easy for the elderly and disabled to use, and have a handy feature that lets them order from their favorite restaurant.

67

1 year ago

A platform that aims to help dating sites like Match.com grow their user base.

66

1 year ago

A software company that aims to make the process of creating and updating online content easier, with a focus on content management and collaboration

66

1 year ago

A startup that launched in January that aims to add augmented reality to the world of dating. The startup plans to take things further than just showing potential dates using AR to hang out, and give users the ability to see what the one other person is seeing in the real world.

65

1 year ago

An AI that helps people review restaurants. The AI can be used for speed dating, by restaurants to review their guests’ faces, and for booking books at restaurants.

64

4 months ago

A startup that hopes to help people build better online dating profiles. It’s building a service that will do the work for you and make your profile personalized, similar to how Groupon, LivingSocial and other startups have done for offline events.

64

1 year ago

The startup is focused on the online dating industry, which is, according to CEO Ryan Feit, “one of the most archaic industries in tech.”

63

1 year ago

A startup that’s building a dating app for people over 50. The app lets users browse by interests, post photos, and build their own profiles. Money is kept separate from the app, so the founders don’t have to have people have to delete their profiles if they don’t want to date.

62

1 year ago

A student loan refinancing startup looking to help people consolidate their student loans by consolidating into a single loan from their bank

62

1 year ago

With a name inspired by the movie "Gone Girl" and a logo that looks like the character's signature, this startup wants to be the "Netflix" of dating. It wants to take the messiness out of creating a profile, make the process faster, and make it easier to meet people in real life.

62

1 year ago

A team of cyclists who want to take a different approach to a dating app.

61

1 year ago

A dating app that matches you with people who work at the same company you do. The startup is focused on the software side of the company, and partnering with companies already located in the app’s target cities.

60

1 year ago

a startup building the world’s first platform for online dating.

60

1 year ago

Niche dating site for people who are looking for a partner in the U.S. but don’t have access to a lot of the basic services (like Facebook, email, and photo sharing.)

60

1 year ago

A dating app for millennials that uses location as a major factor in the matchmaking process

56

1 year ago

A dating app that connects singles in the same city. The app works with the two users to schedule a date, with a free trial of the paid service. The founders are former Google employees.

56

1 year ago

If you’re a company that helps people hire employees, this is a tool meant to help you find and vet candidates. It’s a bit like a dating app for the time-strapped, with a few similarities to Recruiter.com.

55

1 year ago

A dating app that matches up workers with jobs.

55

4 months ago

A dating app for people that “don’t want to date”. Instead, they want to socialize and network.

54

2 years ago

Idea: Personality-based dating app that predicts relationship compatibility It works by asking questions on a sliding scale of topics like religion, politics, sports, and more

53

11 months ago

A new take on the “online dating war” by using AI to help users find friends to hang out with

52

1 year ago

A dating app for those who want to find a long-term relationship. The app is for people who are looking for a serious relationship, rather than a hookup.

47

6 months ago

A six-month-old startup that’s building a speed dating app for people who want to find a date quickly.

47

1 year ago

A startup that helps connect dating service members with those interested in meeting them.

46

1 year ago

A startup that puts a new spin on the dating app Tinder, and allows users to swipe through potential dates in a bar or club setting. The startup wants to crowdsource and combine the benefits of a dating app with the social atmosphere of a bar.

46

2 months ago

The startup’s starting point is that online dating is difficult for introverts. Introverts, however, are 25% more likely to find love online, and Intro.me wants to help them do just that.

43

11 months ago

A platform for dating that claims to be better than popular app Tinder in part because it’s based on mutual interests rather than proximity, and uses a “personalized algorithm” to match you with someone based on first impressions.

42

5 months ago

A “self-affirming” dating app that aims to make finding a match easier for people who are self-assured.

42

1 year ago

A startup that helps companies order supplies, save money by consolidating orders, and get information about their order from real-time data.

41

1 year ago

Builds an accounting software for small businesses, helping them to save time by consolidating all of their accounting systems into one dashboard.

40

6 months ago

An online platform to aid in online dating, with members paying to boost their profile and get access to special features. The startup says it’s already got over 1,000 users and is growing at about 40 percent month.

40

5 months ago

A platform for members of the LGBT community to find each other and chat about health, dating, and other issues.

39

1 year ago

An AI-powered messaging-based dating app that brings a human element back to online dating.

38

9 months ago

An interactive video dating app that lets you create your own personal events and search through the profiles of others.

37

7 months ago

A startup based in Brazil that says it's building a “self-driving” platform for online dating.

37

1 year ago

A platform for distributing video for online dating services, allowing people to find and date people in their area. The startup launched in January and is already working with 10 clients.

36

1 year ago

A B2B company that takes your legal documents and creates a single source of truth so you don’t have to keep updating multiple contracts every time.

35

8 months ago

A platform that helps people and companies find people to date, find people to hire, and even find people to be friends with. The app tracks social media, online dating, and other apps to bring all the information together.

35

3 months ago

This startup is building a way for people to quickly and easily send encrypted messages with any messaging app. The startup is targeting the social media and dating industries, but is also looking to create a way for journalists to securely communicate with sources.

35

6 months ago

A dating app for those who’ve never had sex, for those who haven’t in a while, for those with certain medical conditions, for those who don’t want to meet up with people they don’t know well. It’s currently in the pre-launch stage, with a new version launching in August.

34

12 days ago

A dating app that helps people find like-minded individuals to date and have fun with

34

3 months ago

A dating application that uses an algorithm to create a match between two people based on their mutual friends and interests.

33

10 months ago

This startup is building a platform for auto-updating software that works with auto manufacturers to build an app that helps support and troubleshoot consumers’ cars.

32

5 months ago

This startup is building an online platform that lets you have a single profile for all your favorite dating apps,

29

6 months ago

Essentially, a personal dating app with the goal of creating a more systematic, less chaotic way of matching people up. Potential users include people who have a special interest in a specific topic and want to find like-minded people.

26

5 months ago

An AI API for businesses to manage their customer data, for example updating their data to a different payment method.

26

1 month ago

A dating app for the LGBTQ+ community, made for the black community, from New York City.

22

1 month ago

A dating app that uses AI and machine learning to match people based on personality.

20

1 month ago

A dating app that allows users to make real-time introductions to people they meet in public or at work.

19

2 years ago

A dating startup for people who want to find a house or apartment to rent. It is a marketplace for renting places to live.

6

2 days ago

Unmetric is basically a dating app for inventors. The founders say that over a quarter of patents are never licensed, and that a large majority of inventors are single. Unmetric wants to help connect inventors with others who may be interested in licensing or collaborating on an idea.

5

2 years ago

Idea: A dating app for people who have been diagnosed with a chronic illness

3

2 years ago

A startup that helps people who are looking to buy or sell a house create a dating profile to find a match that will help them through the process

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2 years ago

Idea: A startup that combines the idea of a social network with the idea of a dating app. People can follow each other and post content, but they can also chat with each other. The founders say that their users are posting content at a rate

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2 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to re-create the “best part of the job interview”: the speed dating side of

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Dating Startup Ideas

A dating app that connects people who want to buy sex with people looking to sell.

A startup that weaves social connections into a dating app.

A dating app that focuses on the small things.

Using machine learning, Connect is building a platform that sorts through the clutter of online dating platforms to find the best match. The startup is currently in the process of raising its Series A.

A dating app that matches people based on similar musical preferences.

This startup wants to be the Netflix of dating. It wants to connect couples by matching them based on what they’re looking for in a partner. It also wants to keep track of everything couples do together.

A dating app for people who want to have casual sex, focused on avoiding pressure from other users. The app is meant to be a safe place for people who want to do something that’s not going to last.

A startup that creates a dating app focused on building meaningful relationships

A startup that works like a dating site but for people who want to find a house or apartment to rent

A dating app for breakfast in the morning.

A company that makes it easy to manage your own online dating profile and have it reviewed by online professionals.

A dateable dating app, not unlike Bumble.

A platform where people can create a profile and upload photos of themselves to be rated by other users. The site is mostly for fun at this point, but it could be a useful tool for dating.

A customized AI-powered chatbot that helps you optimize your online dating experience.

Based in Silicon Valley, this startup is working to make the process of filling out IRS forms less intimidating.

A free, online dating service for very short-term relationships.

An AI-powered dating site for people looking for long-term relationships.

A dating app that helps people find matches regardless of what they’re looking for in a relationship. The startup has attracted more than $10 million in investment, and has partnered with celebrities like Shaquille O’Neal, who was one of the app’s first users.

Another company looking to build a social media platform for dating, focusing on the Latinx market in the US.

The founders of an AI-powered dating app want to use their product as a platform for investors to invest in AI startups.

A dating app for “extraverts”.

"The world’s first social dating app for underrepresented groups,” which is to say, people of color.

A dating app for professional singles.

Mixer is a dating app for people who want to meet others in a more social setting. It’s an app like Tinder, but it’s free to use and allows users to pay to chat with others.

An SDK for automatically creating, updating, and publishing content to social media.

A dating app for people living in the US that claims to be “better than Tinder”, with features like a “health score”, a “work score”, and a “social score”

A “Tinder for online dating”, allowing users to view profiles and swipe right to like what they see.

A dating app that estimates an individual's sexual attractiveness.

This startup is building a white-label version of the popular dating app Hinge.

An online dating platform for young people that focuses on their education and career. The company wants to normalize youth dating by making it easier and more attractive to have a career as well as a dating life.

SaaS to help companies establish a culture with their employees. The company works by creating a team mix that fits each company’s culture, with a focus on mandating company culture.

A startup that combines the forms of a dating app, matchmakers, and a freelance marketplace. Like others in the space, Zoosk wants to make it easier for people to find jobs, but unlike others it’s only for women.

A group of entrepreneurs working to redesign the dating app from the ground up.

A media company that aims to help keep written content up to date by automatically updating articles with the latest information.

A dating app that serves to connect people with the same interests through a private group. It is a spinoff of the successful PopSurvey, which was acquired by LinkedIn

A software-as-a-service company building a platform for online dating users.

(Note: This is an ongoing list, and I’m adding to it as soon as I hear about new startup pitches every week. I’ll keep updating when necessary.)

A company that wants to build a local dating app in the US for people in the LGBTQ community.

A tool that lets customers pitch their startups to investors in a “speed dating” style pitch.

A video-chatting app that allows you to meet new people in a safe environment. The startup is building a community that lets you meet new people without having to go through the hassle of setting up a meetup or paying for online dating.

A cloud-based review platform for dating apps, with a funding round that was reportedly led by Facebook

A dating app for polyamorous people with over 10,000 users so far.

A Y Combinator alumni company that hopes to bring the concept of a “pickup artist” to students, in the form of a “dating coach”.

A dating platform that lets people find love by matching them based on their interests.

A startup for people who want to collect money for their online dating profiles

Next Door is a dating service for divorced people who’ve lost contact with their exes. The app offers a community of divorced/separated people who can share advice on dates and relationships.

A startup that wants to bring a “hybrid” approach to the online dating market, focusing on creating a community for people to find dates on the platform, but also connecting them with people they know in real life.

A platform for online dating aimed at the well-educated, attractive, and well-off.

This startup wants to be the next generation of online dating. Their product, LoveButler, is a software that helps people find dates based on personality.

A dating site for people who don’t want to date people of the opposite sex.

A student loan refinancing company that helps borrowers get out of student debt by consolidating all their loans into one. It aims to make this process as simple as possible by allowing borrowers to make payments via their credit cards.

A social network where users can ask and answer questions about various topics like dating, fashion, and fitness.

Blockchain-based dating platform for people who are already in relationships.

A company that provides a kind of dating website for heterosexual gay and bisexual people. It’s different from Tinder because it has a very comprehensive user interface, and has a gay-couple feature that allows you to see other couples in your area.

A combination of a private messaging app and a dating app, allowing users to send and receive text messages from both their phones and an app.

A dating platform for men seeking women, with a heavy emphasis on education. The company has already raised $1.4M after announcing the startup in December, with investors including former CEO of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.

A video messaging platform for young people, with the goal of connecting users to one another for relationships, friendship, and dating.

A platform to create custom, private, and secure online video chat rooms for a variety of uses, including recruitment, dating, and customer support.

A dating app that aims to help you meet people by matching you with your friends.

A dating app for people with mental illness. The app asks you to rate your symptoms and asks you how you interact with people, giving you a score between 0 and 10 based on how likely you are to get into a fight or be abusive.

A dating app that connects single people in their 20s and 30s.

This startup helps companies manage their customer service through an automated chat bot on Facebook Messenger. Its first customer is Zoosk, the dating site and app maker.

A dating app focused on people who want to date people with the same lifestyle as them, but don’t want to date someone who’s too far out of their comfort zone.

A dating app for the elderly, for the first time giving older adults a way to look for love in their own neighborhood. The app is designed to be easy for the elderly and disabled to use, and have a handy feature that lets them order from their favorite restaurant.

A platform that aims to help dating sites like Match.com grow their user base.

A software company that aims to make the process of creating and updating online content easier, with a focus on content management and collaboration

A startup that launched in January that aims to add augmented reality to the world of dating. The startup plans to take things further than just showing potential dates using AR to hang out, and give users the ability to see what the one other person is seeing in the real world.

An AI that helps people review restaurants. The AI can be used for speed dating, by restaurants to review their guests’ faces, and for booking books at restaurants.

A startup that hopes to help people build better online dating profiles. It’s building a service that will do the work for you and make your profile personalized, similar to how Groupon, LivingSocial and other startups have done for offline events.

The startup is focused on the online dating industry, which is, according to CEO Ryan Feit, “one of the most archaic industries in tech.”

A startup that’s building a dating app for people over 50. The app lets users browse by interests, post photos, and build their own profiles. Money is kept separate from the app, so the founders don’t have to have people have to delete their profiles if they don’t want to date.

A student loan refinancing startup looking to help people consolidate their student loans by consolidating into a single loan from their bank

With a name inspired by the movie "Gone Girl" and a logo that looks like the character's signature, this startup wants to be the "Netflix" of dating. It wants to take the messiness out of creating a profile, make the process faster, and make it easier to meet people in real life.

A team of cyclists who want to take a different approach to a dating app.

A dating app that matches you with people who work at the same company you do. The startup is focused on the software side of the company, and partnering with companies already located in the app’s target cities.

a startup building the world’s first platform for online dating.

Niche dating site for people who are looking for a partner in the U.S. but don’t have access to a lot of the basic services (like Facebook, email, and photo sharing.)