Top Online Dating Startups in 2027

Feeld is a dating app for the curious; for those open to experiencing people and relationships in a new way. Our mission is to elevate the human experience of sexuality and relationships and create a world where everyone is more intimately connected to each other and themselves.

Match pioneered the dating category over 20 years ago, redefining the way we meet and fall in love. Today, in an age where there’s more swiping and less liking, we’re proud to be the dating app that has sparked millions of love stories and continues to create meaningful connections every day. Meeting through an app is the #1 way singles meet today and Match is a top-rated dating app available on iTunes and Google Play. Over 80% of our members access Match through our mobile app and can experience Match in eight languages, within 25 different countries. Match subscribers have access to an arsenal of premium features to help them find love including IRL events, dating content, free upgrades like Boost and profile reviews by date strategists.

We're building the next generation dating app that gets better over time. We will launch on January, and are still under the radar.

Timple.ai is building an AI-powered platform where users can create deeply personalized AI companions with unique personalities, memories, and conversations. We combine large language models, image generation, and modern web technologies to deliver engaging, high-quality AI experiences. We’re an early-stage startup with a live product, looking for exceptional engineers who want to build from the ground up, move quickly, take ownership, and help shape the future of AI companionship. We offer meaningful equity and the opportunity to have a direct impact on both the product and the company.

We’re building an app-based safety and verification platform (app) for modern dating. In a world where people can experience financial manipulation, fraud, harassment, stalking, abuse, and other unsafe situations through online dating, Verity Safe provides an added layer of safety and awareness.

You can find Bumble in the Android or Apple store, but we’re so much more than an app. Bumble believes relationships make us human. We are the destination where you meet your next significant other, best friend, and most valuable business connection. Facebook is where you connect with the people you know; Bumble will be the place where you’re no longer afraid to connect with people you don’t know.

Ditto is reimagining how people meet — starting with dating. We’re building the first fully agentic social platform where AI does the heavy lifting: understanding your preferences, finding compatible matches, and even setting up real-life dates. Our cofounders dropped out of UC Berkeley in their freshman year to build this vision. Since then, Ditto has gone viral across campuses, set up tens of thousands of real dates, and attracted funding from Google and top-tier VCs, along with brilliant engineers and researchers from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, and DeepMind. Dating is just the beginning, we are gonna disrupt the entire social scene. If that sounds interesting, come talk to us.

We are on a mission to help people build deeper, more meaningful relationships. We’re starting with Sophia, an end-to-end agentic matchmaker that uses advanced language and computer-vision models to deliver highly tailored introductions. Sophia is built on the latest relationship science – instead of swiping, you talk, Sophia listens, and intelligently learns your personality, lifestyle, and worldview, introducing you to someone who is the right fit for you. Sophia will launch as an invite-only community, growing intentionally before opening more broadly.