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recommendations technology to help users find partners. Its "proprietary
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Despite $ 200 million in revenue collected in 2014, as well as a profit the previous year, Zoosk lost money in 2014 due to the company overspending on expansion and over-hiring. The company operated on the start-up principle that profits do not matter. With these problems at the company, Zoosk
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as it sought to raise $ 100 million in capital. In the S-1, the company reported 2013 revenues of $ 178.2 million, a 63% increase over the previous year, and that it had cut losses 87% to $ 2.6 million. It has 27 million members, of which 650,000 were paying subscribers, and its membership was
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service available in 25 languages and in more than 80 countries. The founders of the company are Shayan Zadeh and Alex Mehr, who ran the company until
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