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Wingmann Connections
Consumer SaaS

Wingmann Connections

Date with intent

WingMann is a relationship platform designed to help people meet in real life, not just match online.

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Waitlist

People joined the waitlist in under 2 months, without spending a rupee on ads

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Onboarding Completion

Completed our "Know Yourself" onboarding - a deliberate, reflective process

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Users

Users chose to slow down and invest in themselves before meeting anyone

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Referral Rate

Referral Rate Of all signups came through word-of-mouth.

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01Market

The opportunity

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CAGR

Compounding annual growth · 5-year forecast

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Market Size

India total addressable market

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$B by 2030
Projected Market

Worldwide market opportunity

The global online dating market is valued at $9.65B in 2024, projected to reach $17.6B by 2030. Despite billions spent, the industry's dirty secret is that retention through failure platforms is structurally incentivised to keep users searching, not succeeding.

02Premise

The brief

Problem: India's $788M dating market has 100M+ users, but only 28% are genuinely seeking a real relationship. The rest are browsing, passing time, or exploring without intent, leaving serious users invisible in a space not built for them. They don't just search harder, they search longer, drain faster, and carry the emotional weight of swipe fatigue, invisible intent, and a ghosting loop that slowly kills their confidence and their belief that finding something real is even possible. Solution: Wingmann is a high-intent relationship platform that filters out casual users, matches people on depth over profile, and drives real-world meetings based on compatibility.

03Product Excitement

The edge

Unlike dating apps that profit from keeping you searching, Wingmann is the only platform that screens for intent, curates for compatibility. We are structurally designed to put itself out of business - by actually getting you into a relationship.
We own the white space between a 500/month dating app and a ₹5L matchmaking service.
04Timing

Why now

The dating market has shifted, not gradually, but fundamentally. Access is solved. Discovery is solved. What remains unsolved is intent: helping people quickly identify who is genuinely here for something serious. That is the new battleground.

05People

The builders

Krishna Gundala
Co-founder

Krishna Gundala

Serial entrepreneur, and then six years in the merchant navy - where ambiguity is a liability and every decision carries weight. That instinct for clarity under pressure is core to how WingMann is built.

Duvvuru Varshitha
Co-founder

Duvvuru Varshitha

Built from lived experience, her previous venture made it to Shark Tank India. She knows what it takes to build something real from scratch, and she's already proven it.

06Archive

Founder Gallery

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