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Ava is an AI dating app.

Callin is a social podcasting app that allows users to create, discover, and enjoy both live and recorded audio content in a single platform. The app combines social audio features with traditional podcasting, enabling users to record, edit, publish, and share their audio content effortlessly. By providing a seamless experience for audio content creation and consumption, Callin aims to enhance the way users engage with podcasts and live audio discussions.

Lolly is a social dating platform that uses short-form content to allow users to express themselves.

Qingchifan, which translates to "Please Eat," is a dating application designed to facilitate dinner dates between users. The platform allows individuals to create public profiles that include a profile picture, additional photos, height, gender, income, profession, and other personal information. Users can browse profiles of nearby individuals, filter potential matches by gender, and engage in chat to initiate connections. The app aims to create opportunities for users to meet new people and develop friendships or romantic relationships over shared meals.

jslyhl.com is a Chinese website as well as a platform focused on love and dating, relationships, friendships, and services such as singles matching, psychological counseling, law and medical care. Through its alliance platform, specialists provide consulting services for members in aspects such as seeking marriage and friends, dating, family life after marriage, maternal care, infant education, mental health counseling, and marriage law.

eHarmony, Inc. is an online dating service established in 2000, headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The platform is designed to connect singles through a Compatibility Matching System, which utilizes a comprehensive 250+ item questionnaire to assess compatibility based on various dimensions, including values, character, intellect, humor, and religious beliefs. By analyzing 29 compatibility factors and applying algorithms rooted in 35 years of clinical research, eHarmony aims to facilitate meaningful long-term relationships. The service boasts over 20 million registered users and operates in multiple countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Brazil. Notably, the platform claims that an average of 542 users marry each day in the U.S. as a result of its matchmaking efforts, underscoring its impact on contemporary relationships.

PlanetOut, Inc. is a leading global online media company serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered, or LGBT, community, a market with reported buying power of approximately $485 billion annually in the United States alone. Their network of websites, including their flagship websites Gay.com and PlanetOut allows their members, or those visitors who registered on their websites by providing them with a name, e-mail address and other personal data, to connect with other members of the LGBT community around the world. According to Nielsen NetRatings, in June 2004, Gay.com ranked second in terms of average time online per person and sixteenth in terms of visits per person among all websites measured. They generate most of their revenue from subscription fees for premium membership services that they offer in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish to their members who identify themselves as residing in more than 100 countries. They also generate revenue from online advertising and e-commerce targeted to the LGBT community.