Available in English Owner Joe Goldman Users 13,000+ | Founded May 2016 Website www.maplematch.com | |
Slogan(s) Make dating great again. | ||
Maple Match is a dating website and iOS app started by Joe Goldman, an Austin, Texas-based entrepreneur. The site first launched in May 2016 after Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. The stated goal of the site is to match Americans with Canadian citizens to help the former avoid a Trump presidency. Goldman has said he was inspired to start the site by his friends' threats to move to Canada if Trump wins the 2016 election. Within a week of the site's launch, about 13,000 people had signed up, a quarter of whom were Canadian, even though the app was unreleased. The company reported that its user base "almost doubled" on the night of November 8 when Trump's victory was announced. Goldman responded to claims that the site was satirical by maintaining that it is completely serious.