Paktor
Company

Last deal

$32.5M

Amount

Venture - Series Unknown

Stage

31.10.2016

Date

3

all rounds

$52M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Paktor connects singles in Asia through technology-enabled platforms.

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founded date

01.01.2013

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Venture - Series Unknown

IPO status

Private

Description

Paktor is a dating platform that offers a mobile-based application for individuals to find, message, and interact with other individuals of their interest. With over 5 million users, Paktor has facilitated 5 billion profile reviews and over 100 million matches. The company's flagship app has become the most popular dating app for singles in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Paktor aims to provide a comprehensive suite of products across the dating vertical, focused on creating value for its users and developing the most diverse and largest network in its markets. Paktor emphasises anonymity, locality, and usability for their users. The company has ownership interests in 10 online and offline dating products across a total of 5 countries, including a controlling stake in Taiwan live streaming company 17 Media and other social dating apps such as Goodnight.
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Paktor

date

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type

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Paktor

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Founders
4
Joseph Phua
Joseph Phua

Joseph Phua

Group CEO at M17 Entertainment

current job

Citi
Citi

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1

Joseph Phua

Charlene Koh
Charlene Koh

Charlene Koh

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Macquarie Bank
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1

Charlene Koh

Joseph Phua
Joseph Phua

Joseph Phua

Group CEO at M17 Entertainment

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17 Media
17 Media

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Joseph Phua

Jingshen Ng
Jingshen Ng

Jingshen Ng

No one put it across better than Marc Andreessen - software is indeed eating the world. I've been in love with software for as long as I can type. I wrote my very first text-based game in QBasic when I was 12. It was inspired by "Lost World" and your goal was to not get eaten by dinosaurs. Since then, I've built software that range from a tank-based RPG to a massive distributed storage system to a dating app. I think software is underrated in Singapore and the country would do a lot better if we had more engineers instead of more bankers. I think software literacy should be part of every curriculum. I like Steve Job's focus on product, Jeff Bezo's focus on customers and Larry Page's focus on doing really cool stuff. In my spare time, I enjoy wandering in the wild. I have gotten lost in Macritchie reservoir and more recently, in Patagonia.

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Paktor

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1

Jingshen Ng

Employee Profiles
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Kheng Lian Ho

Kheng Lian Ho

Director

Jingshen Ng

Jingshen Ng

Chief executive officer

Shn Juay

Shn Juay

Chief Operating Officer & Chief Executive Officer

Colin Hodge

Colin Hodge

Head of Growth; Head of Paktor Labs

Konstantin Yakimov

Senior java developer

Luko Gjenero

Chief technology officer

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