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Breeze

Dating app

Breeze logo
1-20 employees
  • B2C
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Dating
C.S. kwartier, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Company mission

To take online dating offline.

Our take

Noticing the oddity of online dating apps, which encourage users to use their phones to find human interaction or connection, Breeze is a new dating app that actively organises, for its users, offline dates.

Other dating apps earn money by making their users screen-addicted, showing ads or selling ‘premium’ subscription. In response to this, Breeze has established partners in different cities and sets people up on dates, charging each party a small amount, but both will get a free drink at the venue. In a short period, Breeze has organised tens of thousands of dates across around 15 different cities with over 100 established partners and counting.

Initial funding rounds were to be used to accelerate growth but recent pre-seed funding is being invested into gathering more insight about the right marketing channels to use and how to effectively scale abroad, expanding its international reach.

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Benefits

  • Workations and many fun activities
  • Opportunity to get share options
  • 25 vacation days
  • Personal development allowance
  • Holiday allowance

Company values

  • Long term impact > short term gains
  • Data > opinion
  • We > colleagues
  • Our time = valuable
  • Nothing = set in stone

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Nov 2022

$1.3m

SEED

Mar 2022

$1m

ANGEL

Total funding: $2.7m

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Leadership

Joris van Doorninck

(CEO)

Previously co-founded Centr and acted as Managing Director for De Kleine Consultant. Experience as VC Intern for Plug and Play Tech Centre and as the Head Teacher for Stichting Studiebegeleiding Leiden.

Marsha Goei

(Head of Product)

Previously co-founded Centr. Experience as VC Investment Analyst Intern for Plug and Play Tech Centre.

Daan Alkemade

(Head of Matchmaking)

Previously acted as a Strategy Consultant for De Kleine Consultant. Experience as a Data Science & Strategy Intern for BLOOM and a Robotic QA Intern for Adyen.

Marco van der Woude

(Head of Business Development)

Previously co-founded Centr and Innovatee. Experience as a Consultant for De Kleine Consultant, Head of Design for Delftsch Studenten Corps, and has interned for Plug and Play Tech Centre, Deloitte Digital, EWS LLC.

Philip van den Heuvel

(CFO)

Experience as Master Promotional Employee for Delft University of Technology, Project Manager for De Kleine Consultant, Student Consultant for ING, and as President of ETV.

Thomas van der Pas

(Product Manager)

Previously served as Programmer and Electronics Engineer for TU Delft Solar Boat Team and as a Teaching Assistant for Delft University of Technology.

Thomas Oomens

(Head of Tech)

Previously owned and acted as Programmer for Icety and Oxolutions BV, Campus Promoter for ASML, and Full-Stack Developer for Weave.

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