"Our take is that for the first time, we could know enough about somebody to serve them a date that would make sense. And if we could do that much faster with less rejection rate, we could create a user experience that could get people out on more dates,"
"Celeste is a really thoughtful founder to understand the mindset of the consumer, which is a young female, to be honest. There are other people who can be focused on the male demographic, but she is focused on the young female who has a lot of unspoken desires and needs that, if you put them in a profile, they would never say, this versus that. And I think in a conversation, you can get a lot of those nuances out, but in the past, the conversation required a $10,000 matchmaker,"
Founders built a voice-powered AI onboarding system that captures user preferences through conversation, producing average onboarding sessions of 26 minutes. Conversational onboarding surfaced nuanced information that users would not disclose in profiles, enabling more relevant date recommendations and lower rejection. A San Francisco test reported that 80% of introductions led to physical dates, outperforming swipe-based apps. The startup raised $9.7 million from investors including Forerunner, NFX, PearVC, and Coelius Capital, with Forerunner making its first dating app investment. Investors emphasized the approach’s ability to surface unspoken desires of young female users. The founders view dating as a significant social challenge for their generation.
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