Source : baeapp.com & techcrunch.com
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The student founder turned down Microsoft and Google to build Bae, an app for black singles. Bae :: Before Anyone Else, a mobile dating app created by Jordan Kunzika, Brian Gerrard and Justin Gerrard, hopes to make online dating a better experience for Black people.
hey hosted an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) tour which consisted of parties and mixers where people who matched on Bae could meet in person. All attendees had to have Bae downloaded to participate. Within a few weeks of their April 2015 launch, they reached 17,000 downloads, and have grown over ten times since.
Jordan Kunzika CTO of Bae and senior at Dartmouth College, is a first generation Angolan-American who often was the only Black person in his computer science classes. He met his co-founders Justin and Brian Gerrard in his junior year and quickly joined the team after they pitched Bae to him.
The founders’ goal is for Bae to become the best Black dating app in the U.S. and across the African diaspora. And the team’s recent successes are getting them closer to their goal. Baewas accepted into Facebook’s FbStart Accelerate program and chosen as one of a select group of companies to present at F8, Facebook’s Developer conference.
According to their About page : Bae (Before Anyone Else), helps you to meet cool new people, and cut through the clutter of online dating. Spending hours swiping through profiles without finding your match?
Their platform has a singular focus – creating experiences that allow members of our community to easily and seamlessly find their Bae. User’s profiles are never blocked, and after you match with someone, you have FREE access to unlimited chat. Yep, that’s right. It might sound crazy, but after you match with your potential Bae, we actually want you to chat, meet, and date.
Their platform has a singular focus – creating experiences that allow members of our community to easily and seamlessly find their Bae. User’s profiles are never blocked, and after you match with someone, you have FREE access to unlimited chat. Yep, that’s right. It might sound crazy, but after you match with your potential Bae, we actually want you to chat, meet, and date.
