Philadelphia startup entrepreneurs Elodie Clowes and Amanda Karr recently launched a new app, fuse, which digitizes romantic setups and modernizes dating, writes Ryan Mulligan for PHL Inno.

The app sets itself apart from traditional dating apps as it allows users’ friends and family to directly aid in their selection of future dates.

The web-app can be accessed online and downloaded directly to the home screen of a mobile device without requiring the user to go through an app store.

Clowes and Karr, both 24, were inspired to create the app after seeing how friends in their same age group were burned out on dating apps or otherwise invested in their single friends’ dating lives.

Through the app, daters can build a typical dating profile with photos and responses to prompts. The friends or family members the users can choose to bring in, known as fusers, can reject or accept profiles and share other profiles with daters who then can decide if they want to match with another dater.

“With fuse you can be the matchmaker being single yourself, but it also allows those people who are in relationships to get involved in what is modern day [dating] culture,” Karr said.

Read more about the launch of fuse and how it’s modernizing dating in PHL Inno.

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