Feels in a $3M funding raise backed by Creator Collective Capital, Secocha Ventures, Diaspora Ventures and business angels.

Feels, an Auxerre, France-based startup operating a dating app, announced completing a $3 million seed funding round.

The money was raised from a range of investors including Creator Collective Capital, Secocha Ventures, Diaspora Ventures and angel investors Alexandre Yazdi, the football player Blaise Matuidi and the former French Minister Eric Besson.

The proceeds will be used as the company intends to expand the usership base in the US

Feels, founded in 2018 by Daniel Cheaib, Madeline McKinnon, Laurent de Tapol, Ludovic Lapert and Romain Gallan, developed a mobile app used for dating by Gen Z. The company positions it as the anti-dating app, whereas users have to post 6 photos or videos before answering 3 funky questions and letting a friend answer an additional question to build a 20 seconds “story”. The app then invites its users to flirt and seduce by browsing the application according to their feelings and react with feelsmojis.

Feels says it has 1.000.000 users in France, most of them between 18 and 22 years old, and previously raised €1.1M from angel investors in the spring of 2021.