Multinational dating website Match.com has established a toehold in the Chinese market by acquiring a stake in the dating and matchmaking service.

Prior to founding Crowdtap in October 2009, Brandon Evans was chief strategy officer and managing partner of Mr Youth, where he created social marketing strategies for Pepsi, Microsoft and P&G.

Gattamneni is now managing director of Venture Pursuit. His two directors are Dimitrios Stoimenou and Gudrun Herrmann.

Godrej Group-backed Omnivore Capital seals its maiden transaction and approaches a first close on its fund at R60 crore ($13.2m)

The Hubert Burda-backed investor joins Germany-based business network company Wolfman Holding as a backer of the virtual office provider.