{"id":222077,"date":"2026-05-28T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/stanford-dropouts-raise-nearly-10m-to-launch-ai-dating-app-nbc-bay-area\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:50:09","slug":"stanford-dropouts-raise-nearly-10m-to-launch-ai-dating-app-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/stanford-dropouts-raise-nearly-10m-to-launch-ai-dating-app-nbc-bay-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford dropouts raise nearly $10M to launch AI dating app \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/stanford-known-dating-app-ai\/4091043\/\">Stanford dropouts raise nearly $10M to launch AI dating app \u2013 NBC Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/stanford-known-dating-app-ai\/4091043\/\">https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/stanford-known-dating-app-ai\/4091043\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 18:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nbcbayarea.com\">www.nbcbayarea.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two former Stanford University students, Celeste Amadon and Asher Allen, have launched an AI-driven dating app called Known, raising nearly $10 million.<\/li>\n<li>Known utilizes conversational AI instead of traditional profile building, conducting voice-based interviews to determine compatibility.<\/li>\n<li>Users are paired with a curated match based on personality, values, and preferences after the AI gathers sufficient information.<\/li>\n<li>The app imposes a 24-hour timeframe for users to accept the match and arrange a face-to-face date.<\/li>\n<li>Sixty percent of user pairs accept the match and seventy percent of those who go on the date express interest in seeing the person again.<\/li>\n<li>Known is currently open to users in the greater Bay Area, aiming to help more people in the Bay Area find love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford dropouts raise nearly $10M to launch AI dating app \u2013 NBC Bay Area https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/stanford-known-dating-app-ai\/4091043\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.nbcbayarea.com\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-1467438295.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&resize=1200%2C675","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222079,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222077\/revisions\/222079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}