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7 million Series A on the trunk of continued momentum for its community sensitive approach to soulmate searching for individuals of the Islamic trust. They have more than 1 now.5M users of its apps, across 210 countries, swiping, matching and chatting online as they look for ‘the one’. 1.75M seed, led by Fabrice Grinda’s FJ Labs, Others and YC.
We first covered the startup two years back when its founders were just graduating from YC. At that time there were two of them building the business: Shahzad Younas and Ryan Brodie – a perhaps improbable pairing in this context, given Brodie’s lack of a Muslim background. He joined after reaching Younas, who acquired stop his job as an investment banker to launch Muzmatch previously. Brodie got excited by the idea and early traction for the MVP. The pair went on to ship a relaunch of the application in mid 2016 which helped snag them a location at YC.
So why do Younas and Brodie unmatch? All of the staying founder can say is that its traders are buying Brodie’s stake publicly. While, in an email on LinkedIn – celebrating what he dubs the “bittersweet” news of Muzmatch’s Series A – Brodie writes: “Separate to the raise I made a decision to sell my stake in the business. Asked what’s harder, finding a steady co-founder or finding a complete life partner, Younas responds with a laugh. “For me personally it’s a fantastic result for him.
I’m genuinely super happy for him. …