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Marriage Pact

Matchmaking service

Marriage Pact logo
1-20 employees
  • B2C
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Marketplace
  • Social
  • Community
Meatpacking District, New York, NY

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Company mission

To foster genuine, meaningful relationships.

Our take

The Marriage Pact is a dating service committed to finding life partners, that was founded at Stanford University in 2017. Now, 98% of Stanford students participate in the matchmaking scheme.

There are much more popular dating apps out there, such as Tinder, Bumble and Hinge. These services, however, imply that finding love is as simple as seeing a picture or reading a fun fact. The Marriage Pact is determined to create more meaningful relationships. There are no profiles or pictures. Instead, participants answer a thorough 50-question survey from which the algorithm introduces people they think are worth considering long term.

Approximately 30% of participants end up meeting their match and of that fraction, 1/8 are said to still be dating a year on. It has grown exponentially since its fruition, now existing in over 80 colleges across the U.S. Recent funding will see growth and expansion, such as current development of paid additions to the free service.

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Benefits

  • $18,000 per year in benefits—and a say in what they are

Company values

  • Be insatiably curious. Do your utmost to learn, not look smart.
  • Take pride in the details. We value elegance and craftsmanship for its own sake.
  • Optimists win. Building is harder than criticizing, but we are builders. Dream big.
  • Respectfully disagree. Do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Hard, but worth it.
  • Focus on why, not what. Explore ideas with first principles thinking.
  • Take initiative. Ideas are cheap. At the Marriage Pact, what matters is execution.
  • Communicate early and often. Strong communication is the foundation of healthy relationships. (We should know a thing or two about that.)

Funding (1 round)

Oct 2022

$5m

SEED

Total funding: $5m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Liam McGregor

(CEO)

Previously worked as a Data Scientist of Global Data Science for Microsoft. Served as Head of Strategic Marketing and Technology Partnerships for Luminar Technologies and as a Teaching Assistant at Stanford University.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Marriage Pact

  • Relationship science requires diverse perspectives. Our current team: ~59% women, ~68% mixed/people of color, ~50% multilingual, ~32% identify with the Queer community in some way.