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I’m now researching automated personalized introduction services. These companies are like dating sites for business people. They help identify the most relevant people whom you should meet, but haven’t yet. They ask both parties for an opt-in, and then make the intro.  

Here’s a partial list of the vendors I’ve identified:

• Grappa.xyz – reputation graph of the world’s talent
• Lunchclub – one of the older players I’ve found; seed round in 2017
• Boardy.ai – Gets to know you in an AI phone call, impressive but definitely not as good as a human
• Coffeespace.com – specializes in cofounder matching

This feels like a business Linkedin (MSFT) should dominate, but to my surprise they don’t appear to be playing (yet) in this space.

Who else have you found working on this problem?

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