Pulsera

A personal dating agent built on iMessage that replaces the traditional dating app interface. It learns users deeply through phased onboarding, coordinates matches, schedules dates, and provides dating advice. No app, no swiping. The market assumes dating should be a browsing-and-swiping interface. Pulsera's thesis is that the dating app itself is the wrong container. AI should become the primary interface for connection, running over iMessage where people already communicate. Compatibility can't be captured in a single onboarding questionnaire; it requires continuous learning through behavior, phased onboarding, adaptive conversations, and richer context (email integration etc). The goal is reciprocal compatibility, not one-sided attraction. Jake is a second-time consumer founder who raised £600k, built a team of 60+, grew 150k social audience, and is deeply personally invested in understanding human compatibility. Purav is an exceptional technical builder who built the MVP, has deep AI/software engineering experience at Toyota and LTIMindtree, and strong academic credentials (Waterloo CS full scholarship, Math Olympiad gold). They met through a mutual connection, had an immediate 4-hour conversation, and have been building fast since April. Dating apps are universally hated (92% of adults find dating more difficult than ever, 78% tired of dating apps). AI has reached a capability threshold where agentic interfaces can replace app-based models. Bumble's investment in agentic AI validates the direction. Incumbents can't easily follow because it requires unwinding their engagement-based business models. Gen Z is comfortable with AI-native communication and exhausted with the status quo.