Thursday snags $3.5M for a dating app that is living once a week
Thursday, a dating software that desires solve dilemmas produced by, really, too much time invested using internet dating software, have elevated a ?2.5 million (
$3.5M) seed financial investment — a couple of months after releasing (in-may) the single-matching provider in London and ny (and racking up over 52k downloads).
Finally Thursday (June 17) it claims that 110,000 loves had been delivered, generating 7,500 matches in one day. What amount of real dates happened isn’t some thing it’s capable report, however.
The seed is twice their original target, with funding originating from Ascension endeavors, Best evenings VC (previously M-Venture) the financial investment supply of Jagermeister, Connect endeavors, plus very early backers of CityMapper, TypeForm and FIIT (prepared via SeedLegals).
Notable angels backing the dating system put Tom Blomfield, creator of Monzo; Matt Robinson, creator of GoCardless and Nested; Ian Hogarth, creator of Songkick; Eldar Tuvey, founder of Wandera and Henry de Zoute, creator of LookAfterMyBills.