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Wireless - Thursday, June 7, 2007

Wireless Dating Startup MeetMoi Spins The Wall Street Journal

We read a Wall Street Journal article this morning and were disappointed at the lazy reporting. We wondered why the story focussed on a startup called MeetMoi. It turns out that MeetMoi raised a round of funding today ($1.5M in first round financing led by Acadia Woods Partners).

The reason we thought the article was lazy was that there are a number of fast growing mobile dating sites that are well ahead of MeetMoi but the New York-based startup got all the attention. Must be a New York thing. We would call attention to London-based Flirtomatic, or Seattle-based Crush or Flush, which has just closed a $7.2M round.

To be fair, the WSJ names some competitors:
+ Match.com, owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp which is about to launch its mobile biz.
+ Zogo, owned by Wireless Introduction Network of Englewood, NJ
+ Jumbuck Entertainment's Fast Flirting service

Read - Finding a date on the spot (WSJ)