When it comes to dating, European VCs are not playing for keeps. Looking at money raised in the dating tech scene since 2015, the signals are decidedly mixed: investors were smitten in 2018, sick of swiping (or just pandemic-preoccupied) in 2020 and rebounded in 2021. Like dating itself, the sector is a feast followed by a famine.
Analysis
February 10, 2022
Are VCs looking for love in all the wrong places?
Not a keeper: dating is one of few tech sectors in Europe that has seen funding decrease since 2015
2 min read
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