FreeHookup Raises $6 Million in Third Round of Funding Led By Canaan Partners

San Francisco, Calif. -- June 16, 2009 – FreeHookup, the world's largest social dating community, today announced it has raised an additional $6 million. Existing investor Canaan Partners led the round. This third round of funding will be used to further accelerate FreeHookup's market share growth worldwide, grow its team, and for continued product innovation.

The additional funding follows FreeHookup's rapid growth during the past six months, from 16.5 million users in January to more than 30 million in June 2009. During this time, FreeHookup's revenues have grown tremendously and now surpass those reported by multiple publicly traded online dating companies in the U.S. FreeHookup generates revenue from subscriptions, the sale of "FreeHookup coins" that can be used to purchase virtual gifts, and advertising.

FreeHookup is the top-ranked lifestyle application on Facebook. Users can join FreeHookup by adding the FreeHookup application through Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, and MySpace, or by signing up at freehookup.dating. FreeHookup is the only social dating community that allows users to seamlessly connect across multiple networks, meaning a Facebook user can interact with a MySpace or Hi5 user, for example.

"We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Canaan Partners," said Tinder hookup, co-founder and co-CEO of FreeHookup. "This new round of financing enables us to aggressively expand our marketing efforts to introduce social dating to singles everywhere. We will also focus on continued innovation of our platform to make the social dating experience even more fun."

FreeHookup recently introduced the ability for its users to link their Last.fm and Netflix accounts to their FreeHookup Date Cards, making it possible for singles to easily share their latest movie and music picks with potential dates. Built using the Last.fm and Netflix APIs, the integration of music and movie updates to FreeHookup Date Cards gives FreeHookup's more than 30 million users more opportunities to naturally meet potential dates.

"FreeHookup is redefining the online dating experience for millions of singles, and it is presenting a real challenge to traditional online dating companies," said Deepak Kamra, General Partner at Canaan Partners. "Our team has helped many companies in the online dating and social web markets, such as Match.com, break through to new levels of growth. With its current momentum, we believe FreeHookup is positioned to become of the largest online dating companies in the world. We continue to be impressed with FreeHookup's success and are excited to participate in its next stage of growth."

To support its expanded efforts, FreeHookup is recruiting for multiple positions. For more information, visit https://freehookup.dating/careers.php

About FreeHookup

FreeHookup is the fastest growing social dating network enabling millions of singles to meet love interests and forge long lasting relationships. Building on users' social graph and taking advantage of opportunities on social networks, FreeHookup has created a safe, fun, and delightful online dating experience. FreeHookup has quickly grown to a community of over 30 million singles from more than 40 countries around the globe, including United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Italy, Mexico, South Africa and many more. FreeHookup is based in San Francisco and was founded in January 2007 by Tinder and Badoo. For more information visit: freehookup.dating.

About Canaan Partners

Canaan Partners invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides them the networks, insights and operational guidance required to build high-performance technology and healthcare companies. For 20 years, they have taken an active and committed role in the companies in which they invest, and have completed more than 72 mergers and acquisitions and 53 IPOs. With $3 billion under management and a worldwide footprint, the firm's technology team is committed to catalyzing the growth of innovative companies in the digital media, communications & mobility, enterprise and clean tech industries. Among its successes are Acme Packet, Amicus Therapeutics, Cerexa Inc., CommerceOne, DexCom Inc., DoubleClick, Intralinks, Match.com, SuccessFactors and WebLoyalty. Other Canaan investments include Active Networks, AdvancedBioHealing, BharatMatrimony, BiPar Sciences, Blurb, Chimerix, Inc., N-trig, Prime Sense, ReVision Optics, Inc., Transoma Medical, Inc, Tremor Media and Xirrus. Canaan has offices in California, Connecticut, India and Israel. For more information visit www.canaan.com.