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Hinge founder’s AI matchmaker coming later this year<\/h1>\n
Overtone isn’t a dating app \u2014 it’s a “service.”<\/div>\n
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Yesterday, Hinge<\/a> founder Justin McLeod shared more details about his next venture, an AI matchmaking service called Overtone.<\/p>\n

McLeod announced his departure<\/a> from Hinge back in Dec. 2025 to focus on Overtone, which he plans to launch later this year in select locations. (You can put yourself on the waitlist<\/a> if you’re interested.)<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO:<\/span>Your friends can now add to your Hinge profile<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

“Overtone is not a dating app,” McLeod wrote in the latest blog post<\/a>. “By that I mean it’s not a social platform with profiles that reduce people to stats, quotes and photos. There are no opaque, algorithmic feeds trained on split-second impulses. And there\u2019s no juggling likes, matches and chats across many people at once.”<\/p>\n

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Rather, the post goes on, Overtone is a service. McLeod promises Overtone will make only introductions “worth making” and will explain why someone is a match. He wants to bring back matchmaking, a longtime practice. These days, it’s pretty limited to those who can spend thousands of dollars on a personal matchmaker, like in the movie Materialists<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n

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“But this time with the reach and diversity of modern networks, the collective wisdom of relationship science, and the conviction that when it comes to options, all you need is less\u2122,” he wrote (yes, including the trademark).<\/p>\n

Details of what Overtone will look like are scarce, but McLeod also announced the company has raised $18 million<\/a> from FirstMark Capital, Pace Capital, and Match Group. The latter is the dating app conglomerate that owns Hinge.<\/p>\n

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