Who would be the next Tinder?

Or will we even need one?

At Disrupt new york in may just, we’ll try to unravel that question.

In a panel on the brand new frontier of digital courting, we’ll be bringing collectively some of the freshest minds in the house to talk about how area of interest courting services will be the next large factor we swipe right on.

Bumble CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe, Her founder and CEO Robyn Exton, and espresso Meets Bagel cofounder and COO Dawoon Kang will probably be joining us on stage at the giant exhibit. they are going to talk about how fragmented the distance is, what features work for each their businesses and their users, and how users can develop meaningful relationships on their structures. (If they even need to.)

each of those apps brings something different to the courting plate. Bumble lets ladies make the primary move, Her serves the queer female neighborhood, and occasional Meets Bagel provides you one healthy simplest each day. here’s a little more about each panelist:

Whitney Wolfe, CEO and cofounder of Bumble

After graduating from SMU in Dallas, Whitney spent 6 months in Asia working inNorthern Thailand and Cambodia. Upon her return, she joined the Cardify crew for advertising and gross sales, which was once a part of the IAC incubator Hatch Labs. After Cardify failed to pick out up, Whitney lobbied the group to run with some other aspect venture they had created, which was once known as Matchbox. That app is now a household identify, Tinder. She Co-based Tinder and was the VP of marketing for 2 years. After her departure, she saw a lacking hyperlink in online responsibility. She had hopes to create a platform for kindness. Whitney reunited with a industry acquaintance, Andrey Andreev. Andreev is an international-in demand businessman most famous for his platform, Badoo, which has over 230 million users and generates hundreds of millions of greenbacks a year. collectively they formed Bumble.

Robyn Exton, CEO and cofounder of Her

Robyn Exton graduated from the college of Bristol with a Bachelors of Science stage. She went on to be a pace-setter at the Geek woman Meetup within the UK, after which became an Account manager at Tag, a global design and manufacturing agency. Robyn endured her occupation in design and production at model consultancy firm Calling manufacturers, the place she went from account supervisor to biz dev. In 2011, she founded Her (formerly Dattch) as one of the first LGBTQ relationship apps for women.

Dawoon Kang, COO and cofounder of espresso Meets Bagel

Dawoon’s work spans from strategy & trade building to advertising and marketing, analysis and investing/finance. She began her career at Avon merchandise as Analyst for U.S. strategy & industry construction in the big apple. After receiving her MBA from the Stanford Graduate college of business in 2009, she went on to J. P. Morgan’s global different opportunities staff in Hong Kong. She worked as vp of North Asia funding crew, which covered all investments in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, from distressed debt to growth fairness alternatives.

In 2012, Dawoon co-based coffee Meets Bagel along together with her sisters Arum and Soo. As COO & Head of selling, Dawoon oversees the corporate’s overall imaginative and prescient, technique, branding, and marketing. She has given numerous talks about courting, tech, and entrepreneurship to teams reminiscent of ladies 2.zero, The Commonwealth membership, including a recent TEDx discuss with Arum in San Francisco on the theme the gorgeous truth About on-line dating.

The dating space is changing rapidly and these panelists will likely be integral in mapping out that journey.

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