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Serndip is a new generation dating application, which proposes to return to what has always been the charm of the meeting: sharing, reality and spontaneity. Intended mainly for over 35 years, Serndip promotes the meeting "in the real world", and allows singles to meet as part of activities to share.

Badoo is an online community that aims to provide its members with the ability to communicate and share their lives with people both locally and around the globe. Its many features include the in photo/video sharing and social networking. More importantly, though, Badoo aims to allow its users to gain an instant mass audience for themselves and their work. One of Badoo's strengths lies in giving the user direct control over the size of their audience. With their patented system, members can activate features that instantly gain more exposure for their profile. Badoo added to that the ability for instant messaging, lightning quick uploads of photos/videos, and the transparency of being able to see who views their profile and individual entries. Badoo's main pitch is that it carries no advertising, avoiding the kinds of issues Facebook had with Beacon. Instead, Badoo derives its main revenue from offering users the chance to pay to be popular. Badoo is owned by Russian entrepreneur Andrey Andreev. It is the majority owner of dating app Bumble.

Spotted applies a hyperlocal approach to real life bringing together people who cross paths every day via anonymous and flirt messages used to initiate contact.

Happn provides a hyperlocalized dating app working on proximity to enable users to view the profiles of other members who have been within 250 meters in real-time. Users can then signal their interest using hearts, or "charms", and begin conversations if the interest is mutual.

MeetMindful is a community-based online dating site that serves the niche mindful living market. The company provides singles pursuing a lifestyle featuring spirituality, wellness, green living, fitness, being of service, higher consciousness, and the creative arts of mind, body, and spirit with a platform to look for friends, a partner, and inspiring connections.

Whim (http://whim.LA) is a mobile app that sends users out on a date TONIGHT. Were accelerating the process of getting to the in-person part of forming a relationship, while minimizing the work, effort, screen-time, and build-up required by other dating platforms. Unlike the current assortment of hookup apps (Tinder, Blendr, Badoo, etc.), Whim intends to help people get out on legitimate dates. Any day a user wants to go on a date, he/she can review a number of date possibilities, choosing to accept or reject each one. At 6 pm we email the users who successfully matched with each other for a date that night. Whim costs $5/date and is targeted toward single, urban, young professionals (ages 25-35) who dont want to waste time messaging and flirting online. Its the solution for people who may have online dating burnout or who want a more efficient way to get out on actual dates. Tech: Phonegap, Backbone.js, HTML5, Javascript, Rails.