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MARCH 27, 2013

Santa Monica-based online matchmaking site eHarmony is planning a big advertising push, as the firm said it has revamped its management team under founder Dr. Neil Clark Warren. The move comes as eHarmony says it has been working to refresh and revamp its experience and drive users to return to the service. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 25, 2014

Santa Moica-based matchmaking site eHarmony said today that it has hit a record breaking number of subscribers, thanks to the return of founder Dr. Neil Clark Warren two years ago. eHarmony did not report on the exact number of subscribers using the service now. eharmony matchmaking dating mobile relationship marriage'

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Santa Monica-based eHarmony , the online dating and matchmaking site, announced this morning that it has named Jeremy Verba as its new Chief Executive Officer. Verba had previously served as President and CEO of teen community site Piczo, as well as AOL, E! Online, and CNET. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Santa Monica-based eHarmony.com , the online matchmaking site, said Wednesday that it has added William T. eHarmony said that Weyerhauser joins Dr. He also has served at EDEN Bioscience, Potlach Corporation, and Comerco. eharmony online matchmaking dating executive board weyerhauser' Weyerhauser to its board of directors.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Online dating site eHarmony is reporting that it's seeing an increasing number of users using its mobile apps to access its dating service, and also said that conversions of those users is up nearly 40 percent year to year. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based online matchmaking site eHarmony is continuing its big marketing push, saying this morning that it will be featuring a float for the 2014 Rose Parade. eHarmony--which is in the midst of a big marketing and advertising push--said that its float will feature musician Natalie Cole. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2010

The latest comScore Media Metrix ranking of top growing Internet properties shows that, among Southern California's Internet companies, Gorilla Nation , ProFlowers , and eHarmony saw big gains in their Internet traffic in February. Among other gaining sites were ProFlowers.com, which had a surge of 412 percent in uniques, to 5.3

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AUGUST 27, 2014

Santa Monica-based online matchmaking site eHarmony said Tuesday that it now has more than 600,000 marriages to its credit, with approximately one in seven people in America having subscribed to the service at one point or another. eHarmony also said it will be releasing its job matching service, Elevated Careers, in Q4.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Santa Monica-based online matchmaking site eHarmony rolled out its own Rose Bowl float yesterday, saying that it is the "first dot com" to have a float in the Rose Parade. eHarmony''s float, "Everlasting Love", featured Natalie Cole singing her song "This will be", as well as couples who met via eHarmony. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2013

Greg Waldorf , who was the founding investor in Los Angeles-based eHarmony , and was previously its CEO, is the lead investment in an online education firm''s Series A. Grovo''s online video training site includes more than 3,500 video lessons on Internet tools and cloud services. Series A funding for the company this morning.

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JUNE 7, 2012

Santa Monica-based online dating and relationship site eHarmony has been hit by the same hacker which hit LinkedIn, it appears, after security experts discovered that the same hacker posting LinkedIn account data has also been posting passwords from eHarmony. LinkedIn's breach was estimated to have affected 6.5 READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based online matchmaking site eHarmony said Thursday that it is expanding its market, and has launched a brand new site, specifically aimed at Spanish speaking singles. According to eHarmony, its new web site is built to serve both Spanish speaking singles in the U.S., READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Los Angeles-based Payoff.com , a new startup led by Scott Saunders, said Tuesday that it has officially launched its free, social finance site. Payoff.com's web site centers around sharing dreams and saving goals with others, and earning special badges for reaching steps along the way to those goals. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Los Angeles-based online matchmaking site eHarmony has been acquired by German company ProSiebenSat.1 1, the acquisition of eHarmony will help it expand its Commerce segment internationally. eharmony was founded in 2000, and is well known for its computer-driven algorithms to match the interests and personalities of its users.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Pasadena-based myShape , an online e-commerce site focused on matching women to clothing, said today that the firm has been selected by dating site eHarmony to be the exclusive fashion e-tailer for a new eHarmony Advice Date Planner. Tags: fashion ecommerce dating myshape clothing eharmony. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 4, 2016

Los Angeles-based matchmaking service eHarmony said it is launching a new, job search site, which takes the technology behind its online matchmaking site and applies it to the area of job matching and employee recruiting. eHarmony says the technology on its dating site is now responsible for around 438 marriages per day.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Pasadena-based online dating site eHarmony said today that it has inked a partnership with AOL, on AOL Personals, an online dating service. According to eHarmony, it will bring its scientific matchmaking to AOL Personals, through promotion on AOL's sites, a dedicated "eHarmony Boutique", and dating advice.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Santa Monica-based matchmaking site eHarmony is looking to the overseas market to grow its service, saying today that it is launching a "globalization initiative" this year to add one new country per quarter to its service. eHarmony says it will create region-specific versions of its service, which will be customized for each country.

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APRIL 29, 2015

Santa Monica-based eHarmony the online matchmaking site, said Tuesday that it has completed the second phase of a major, IT refresh at the company. eHarmony said that its service is now built on top of Hadoop 2.0, eHarmony ha completed the first stage of the big refresh in Q4 of 2014. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Santa Monica-based Comparably , the startup which helps employees and employers track compensation and company culture data, has snagged a high profile hire this morning, hiring on eHarmony veteran Armen Avedissian as its new Chief Marketing Officer.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Everyone knows that Southern California is already home to quite a few online dating sites, like eHarmony , but how about startups? The site helps you get past all the online posturing, improves your odds of connecting with multiple people, and also gets you to a great restaurant, at the same time. Let's Date. Three Day Rule.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Former Vice President of Technology at eHarmony and Vice President of Engineering at the Rubicon Project. In this interview, Mark discusses how his experiences at Oracle, eHarmony and the Rubicon Project contributed to the creation of his latest venture, SteelHouse Media. There are two things I learned at eHarmony.

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JUNE 29, 2010

The site allows users to post green investment and business deals, find investors, and connect with others in the clean technology sector. The firm also recently hired Stan Holt, most recently a VP at eHarmony, as its President and COO. The firm is backed by Blue Marble Ventures, and is being run by Blue Marbles' Patrick McKenna.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

A new study, released today by the Pew Research Center , says that more American adults are using online dating sites or mobile apps than ever before. The study said 15% of adults have used online dating sites or apps; with 9% having used dating apps. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. Let’s take a particular example: eHarmony of jobs.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. Let’s take a particular example: eHarmony of jobs.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Among the winners honored last night were Adam Bernhard , CEO of flash sales site HauteLook , Greg Waldorf , CEO of eHarmony , and Mike Fiore , Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of Vantage Oncology. and Robert Friedman, Co-Chairman & CEO, Summit Entertainment.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Fullerton-based HipGeo , the developer of location-aware website applications backed by Morado Venture Partners, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and angel Robert Bingham, said today that it has released its new public Application Programming Interface (API). READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based Steelhouse , the behavioral targeting firm backed by Ron Conway and Geocities' founder David Bohnett, said Tuesday that Cooking.com has been using the firm's technology to ramp sales of its online site. SteelHouse is headed by Mark Douglas, the former VP of Technology at eHarmony and VP of Engineering at Rubicon Project.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

eHarmony for me fell into that camp. Fake Site - you can have what looks to be a real site, even take "orders" but not actually have anything able to run it. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. There are some MVPs that are unavoidably complex.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Newport Beach-based MBAinteract , a site developing a social and professional networking site for MBA students, said Wednesday that it has added Dr. J. Galen Buckwalter, former Chief Scientist at eHarmony, to its board, as part of an unspecified investment from Buckwalter. Amount of the investment was not disclosed.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Costa Mesa-based Payoff.com , which operates a peer-to-peer, lending site led by Scott Saunders--and whose Chief Scientist is Galen Buckwalter, who was the Chief Scientific Officer at eHarmony--has raised $12M in a funding effort. The funding was led by Mohamed El-Erian, the finance guru who was at Pacific Investment Management Co.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

According to the company, it now has more than 12,000 registered members, who trade and discuss venture backed, privately held firms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, eHarmony, Tesla Motors, and Zynga. The firm's site also includes research reports and other background information on those privately held firms. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

In fact, according to Sean Suhl , the founder of Let's Date (www.letsdateapp.com), it's completely opened up a brand new market for how people are finding romance, as singles move away from legacy dating sites and towards new, mobile dating services like his own. And it's not an eHarmony questionnaire with life questions.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

The site, headed by Scott Saunders, uses social networking, gamification, and connections to social networking sites to help inspire users to pay of their debt and improve their finances. The firm's advisors include Dr. Galen Buckwalter, founder and Chief Scientist at eHarmony. last year to kick off its efforts. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

SharesPost's site features in-depth analysis of privately held firms such as Facebook, Twitter, Tesla Motors, eHarmony, and other popular privately held firms. According to the firm, it has added Blueshift Research and Liquid Scenarios as providers of private company research and data to its subscribers. Research and VC Experts.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

We'll discuss trends and tips in online dating (what should your profile pic be, what description, social media for dating), how sites like eHarmony and dating authors use social media to promote, how romantic comedies market and tie into V-day, and more.

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