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There’s an abundance of relationship apps available on the market, however there aren’t many apps that purpose to maintain the spark alive after you enter a relationship. Enter Sparks, an app catering to current {couples} trying to introduce new and enjoyable experiences to their lives.

The Barcelona-based startup, which exhibited as a part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, debuted as an MVP in Might 2021 and formally launched this week.

The startup was based by CEO Ankit Nayal, who got here up with the concept for Sparks after reflecting on his relationship along with his companion. He discovered that he and his companion had been usually too busy to seek out issues to do collectively, and that it was unattainable to discover a new exercise that they had been each curious about. Drawing on this expertise, Nayal determined to create an app targeted on serving to {couples} improve their relationships by discovering new experiences, whether or not it’s selecting a brand new film, recipe, sport, restaurant or trip.

“There are such a lot of apps that can assist you discover a companion,” Nayal advised TechCrunch. “However when you discover a companion, you permit these apps and there’s nothing left that can assist you in your relationship. That’s the place I observed a niche and questioned why we don’t have a instrument targeted on bettering relationships.”

Some might surprise why they want an app to assist them make selections with their companion. To that, Nayal says the app isn’t attempting to switch communication between {couples}, it’s as a substitute trying to do away with the trouble of planning dates or discovering new experiences.

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Sparks presents a curated choice of experiences and date concepts that you just and your companion can parse by means of in a Tinder-like swipe interface. You possibly can swipe by means of film solutions, new recipes, trip concepts, etch. As soon as there’s a match, the app will let there’s one thing that each you and your companion are curious about doing.

The startup is trying to increase a pre-seed spherical within the first quarter of 2023 and plans to make use of the funding so as to add extra options to the app, whereas additionally integrating a deeper personalised expertise for {couples}.

By way of the longer term, Nayal says he sees Sparks turning right into a community of super-apps which can be in a position to assist {couples} in extra methods.

“Long run, we now have greater objectives,” Nayal stated. “Dwelling in China and working companies there, we obtained well-versed with the ecosystem of super-apps and one firm being the holder of a number of key apps. We wish to deliver the identical, however to relationships. Ideally we see ourselves creating completely different faces of Sparks, equivalent to Sparks: The Lengthy Distance Relationship App, The Mother and father App, The {Couples} Finance App and so forth.”