U Got Game on Who Are These: Revolutionizing the Dating Game

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Who Are These Startups? U Got Game

In this episode of Who Are These Startups?, we sit down with the founders of U Got Game at Collision 2024. Join Jordan Wall (COO and Co-founder), Rajesh Kadi (CEO and Co-founder), Garkar Anujla (CTO and Technical Founder), and Hermit from Team Pumpkin as they discuss their innovative approach to dating apps. They share how U Got Game is breaking the mold of traditional swipe-based dating apps by introducing gamified party games that create unique and engaging dating experiences.

Key Discussion Points:

• Introduction to U Got Game: Learn about the inspiration behind U Got Game and how the founders aim to disrupt the dating app industry with their unique platform.
• How It Works: The team explains how U Got Game differentiates itself from apps like Tinder and Bumble, with a focus on real-time, drop-in audio games that create more meaningful connections.
• Challenges and Innovations: The founders discuss the significant challenges they’ve faced, from building a new type of product from scratch to finding effective ways to grow their user base.
• Collision 2024 Insights: The team shares their experiences at Collision, including interactions with investors and insights into the venture capital landscape.
• Future Plans and Investor Opportunities: With their closed beta recently launched, the team is excited about their next steps and invites interested investors to connect.

Notable Quotes:

• "We're really trying to change that whole monoculture [of dating apps] and break that cycle with gamified party games." - Jordan Wall
• "With U Got Game, it's not just swipe left, swipe right—it's an experience that brings people together in a fun and interactive way." - Rajesh Kadi

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Automated Transcript of U Got Game on Who Are These Startups

Welcome to Who Are These Startups?

podcast shorts featuring founder interviews of Canadian startups.

U Got Game.

How's it going guys?

Amazing.

You enjoying collision so far?

Oh it's great.

So please introduce yourselves for our audience and tell us about U Got Game.

Okay so I'm Jordan Wall, co-founder and I'm Jordan Wall co-founder and COO of UGot Game.

Hi I'm Rajesh Kadi, I'm CEO and co-founder of U Got Game.

I'm Garkar Anujla, technical founder and CTO at U Got Game.

Yeah I'm Hermit from Team Pumpkin and we are the tech force behind U Got Game.

What inspired you to start U Got Game?

Well right now current dating apps are swipe left, swipe right so we're really trying to change that whole monoculture and really try to break that cycle.

So what we ha

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Who Are These Startups? podcast shorts featuring founder interviews of Canadian startups.
You Got Game. How's it going guys? Amazing. You enjoying collision so far? Oh it's great. So please
introduce yourselves for our audience and tell us about You Got Game. Okay so I'm Jordan Wall,

(00:20):
co-founder and I'm Jordan Wall co-founder and COO of You Got Game. Hi I'm Rajesh Kadi,
I'm CEO and co-founder of You Got Game. I'm Garkar Anujla, technical founder and CTO at
You Got Game. Yeah I'm Hermit from Team Pumpkin and we are the tech force behind You Got Game.
What inspired you to start You Got Game? Well right now current dating apps are swipe left,

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swipe right so we're really trying to change that whole monoculture and really try to break
that cycle. So what we have is gamified that landscape by having gamified type of party
games that people can use to meet each other and go on these unique dates which we have in our
dating marketplace. Really great experiences we partner with a bunch of places around Toronto

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and we're really hoping people are going to enjoy it because it's growing every day and we're really
helping small businesses as part of our joy. So how is it different from say traditional dating
apps like Tinder or Bumble? So compared to like the traditional dating app where you would swipe
left, swipe right it's all it is is like a virtual slot machine. With You Got Game the way our app

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works is you create a profile, you have your preferences and you're thrown into a game lobby
with other people that meet your preferences. From there you then anonymously play these like
drop-in audio games. So it's kind of like the dating game or love is blind but real time with

(02:00):
drop-in audio and so you're asking questions the contestants are answering and round by round you're
ranking the answers. After three rounds the contestants eliminated and in the fourth round
it's like a compatibility test, the speed round that is rapid fire and you're kind of using the
answers that the Bachelor or Bachelor at are giving as the Rubicon for the answers that the

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contestants give is a kind of how to grade them and then based on that one contestant is the better
choice and then that is that's how you kind of find your match right now. What's been your most
significant challenge with You Got Game? I mean there's a lot of different places to start. The

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product we're making is completely new there's not really much like it so building it out from
the base making sure we have a really good foundation not only for our marketplace, our game
but also something that users can really plug into and feel like they're really getting into the
experience right away making sure it's quick and seamless and on top of that we also have a lot
of interesting challenges when it comes to exploring new avenues for how do we reach new users,

(03:11):
how do we promote content, how do we get people actually online playing the games so we have a
healthy consistent population that's always going to be growing bringing in new people and it's
what we're here to do today and hopefully we find some great ways to get those problems out. So what
brings you to collision? What brings everyone to collision investment and money right? We're here

(03:36):
we just have a closed beta that's launched and we're getting ready to showcase what we're all
about two investors setting meetings we are available to do that and we have a whole team
behind it a whole platform to show and even a deck that can really showcase what we're about today
or about tomorrow and years into the future. We have a whole financial plan laid out we're cost

(03:59):
effective we keep the prices low that's why we're with team Pumpkin because they're the best bang for
you buck and know what they're doing and we're just going to drive that force forward we're really
excited and if anyone's out there listening that's investors come our way it's a big bright
boot team Pumpkin let's go. Have you met any interesting people or had any memorable experiences

(04:20):
so far? Yeah I mean I've met with a few investors at a few of the side events as well as uh some of
the main events with collision and it's been really interesting in the conversations what the
venture capital land landscape is like here in Canada as well as like abroad and kind of

(04:43):
people have been very helpful like we had one VC who you know he said this isn't really my wheelhouse
but I know a couple of guys and connected me with them like right away to have conversations and I
thought that was something that doesn't often happen in the VC space for startups like us

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and so we really appreciate that kind of help. And if people want to find out more about UGOT game
where do they go? They go to UGOT Game.tv look us up. Fantastic thanks for talking to me today.
Awesome thanks so much Greg. This has been Who Are These Startups? Find out more at WhoAreTheseStartups.com
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