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By Scott Meacham Datebox, which officially rebranded as Happily last year, started four years ago as a budget-friendly subscription service that delivered a box with items and plans for one great at-home date. The vision was straightforward: Couples want to spend more quality time together. Datebox helped them rediscover that a date doesn’t have toRead more
Oklahoma City-based Happily and its Datebox “date in a box” subscription service was recently featured in a Forbes magazine article on the growth of subscription services during the Coronavirus national shutdown. Happily is an i2E portfolio company. Here’s the key quote from Happily’s Brett Kolomyjec from the article: “We’re providing both convenience, fun [and] discovery…Read more
Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Company Datebox Inc., an Oklahoma City startup company that provides couples with creative dating ideas and products, has secured a $2.6 million seed round investment. The investment round included $1.3 million from the i2E-managed Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, along with $300,000 from the SeedStep Angels group, also managed byRead more
The online dating industry generates about $2 billion in revenue each year and has expanded about 5 percent per year for the last five. DateBox is a budget-friendly subscription service that once a month delivers a box containing eight to 10 items and creative plans for one great date. In business for about eight months, DateBox has delivered about 76,000 dates.
