Social Networking Journal

Zoosk Secures Funding

Zoosk.com, said to be one of the fastest dating social networks recently announced that they’ve secured $4.1 million dollars in funding in their second round.

Investment partners include Canaan and ATA Ventures.

According to reports, these monies will be directed to expand Zoosk’s marketing efforts, increase their subscriber base across additional social networks and develop compelling new features for their network.

Shayan Zadeh, co-CEO of Zoosk said “We have quickly become the dominant player in the social dating space and we plan to continue to rapidly expand our user base across even more social networks,”"We allow people to seamlessly connect across multiple social networks, for example a Facebook user can interact with a MySpace user, and this ability has given us unprecedented access to today’s young, single professionals. Our new funds will allow us to expand our network of subscribers and add even more new features that will make the social dating experience even more fun and less painful.”

Zoosk is the first dating application that runs across a number of established social networks.

To find out more about this new dating platform, please visit Zoosk.com