SpeedDate Scores $6 Million For Matchmaking In A Hurry

Online dating site SpeedDate has raised $6 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. SpeedDate offers users a series of 3 minute mini-dates, during which they can converse through video, audio, and a chat box. If both partners decide they were a good match when prompted at the end of the date, they can continue communicating through the site until they make the jump to real life. When we first wrote about SpeedDate, the site had a small userbase, which made it difficult to conduct a series of dates (there simply weren't enough potential matches). Since then the site has grown substantially (claiming 100,000 dates daily), so you can hop on and hope to find a reasonable match within a few minutes.