If You Have HIV Or Are A Vegetarian, There’s A Dating Agency For You
Apart from run-of-the-mill dating agencies that target heterosexuals, there are many other niche dating and matchmaking agencies around in the world. For example, those that serve the needs of people who only want to meet other Christians, other vegetarians, or in another case, other HIV-positive people. Singapore may not have such dating agencies yet, but perhaps this may provide food for thought for entrepreneurs seeking to venture out in the dating business.
If You’re A Vegetarian…
VeggieConnection (US): “A place for veggies to find new friends, and fall in love!”
VeggieRomance (UK): “A place for vegan singles, vegetarian singles, vegetarian dating, friendships, finding pen pals and generally networking with the vegetarian, vegan and environmentally aware community.”
VeggieMatchMakers (UK): “Not just a ‘dating agency’, VMM offers friendship, social events, opportunities for members to publicise their own businesses and a commitment to develop other services of interest not just to vegetarian singles but also to the whole vegetarian/vegan community.”
If You’re A Christian…
FriendsFirst (UK): “A proven way to meet Christian friends and potential partners.” The founders set up FriendsFirst to be a “trusted friendship service” where people could meet and make Christian friends.
ChristianConnection (UK): “The website for friendship, dating and matchmaking for likeminded Christian singles across the UK and Ireland.”
New Day Introductions (UK): “A Christian introduction agency, run by, and for, Christians.”
ChristianCafe (Canada): “A comfortable relaxing online Cafe where Christian singles connect with one other.”
Single Christian Network (US): “Where Christian singles meet.”
If You Have HIV…
PositiveSingles (Canada): “Where you can get on with your life and meet new friends, partners or potential spouses, or learn about STD medical information.”
HIVPoz (US): “For HIV Positive Individuals (heterosexual and gay) that want to find, possibly meet and date others that are HIV positive.”
HIV Passions (US): “A 100% FREE online dating & social networking site for HIV Positive Singles.”
More HIV and STD dating sites.
PositiveSingles also has a private label programme – Singapore entrepreneurs wishing to try their hand at this niche may want to consider this partnership.
Photos courtesy of guspim and HAMED MASOUMI.
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Apart from SGE, Gwen is also a Partner at Thymos Capital, where she focuses on early stage investments in technology firms. She has had two exits out of her investments via the firm, one of which is iHipo. A frequent judge for business competitions both locally and overseas, she graduated from the National University of Singapore. Gwen also spent some time in Silicon Valley and studied in Stanford University under the NUS Overseas College programme. Gwen is a mentor at Spanish incubator Tetuan Valley, Polish incubator Gamma Rebels, the Singapore Ambassador for the Sandbox network and the Singapore curator for StartupDigest. She enjoys languages, travelling, dance and adventure sports. Gwen can be found on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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