Stupid Cupid

What Stupid Cupid does

Stupid Cupid is a Los Angeles-based independent entertainment production operating a comedy web series centered on the fictional premise of four friends building a dating app. Season 1, consisting of seven episodes plus a teaser and trailer, premiered in November 2021 and is built around a user-integrated storytelling model in which episodes are derived from true-life dating stories submitted by the audience via a public form on the company's website. The show's central hook is a conceptual differentiator — a dating app that matches users with who they "need" rather than what they think they want — but no actual dating app product has been launched; the company's own homepage explicitly states "We're not an app, we're a web series about four friends creating a dating app."

The underlying technology stack is a modest Weebly-hosted website (stupidcupid.us) with pages for Home, About Us, Episodes, Press, and Contact, supplemented by an Apple Podcasts distribution and a downloadable pitch deck for half-hour comedy series adaptation. No proprietary AI, APIs, SDKs, or MCP integrations are disclosed. The business model is pre-commercial: revenue mechanics are limited to a notional advertising stream for the web series and a hypothetical subscription/recurring revenue stream for the future app, while current monetization is effectively nil — pricing is not established, Alpha testers are being recruited, and the company was funded by a $5,346 self-funded round in September 2019 plus the 2019 New York Women in Film, TV, and Theatre Fund Grant. The operation is led by Creator/Co-writer/Executive Producer Sarah Randall Hunt with a team of 1-10 based in Los Angeles, and the IP is positioned for format expansion into a traditional half-hour television series.

Name

Stupid Cupid

Legal name

Stupid Cupid

Website

https://stupidcupid.us

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stupid Cupid is a Los Angeles-based independent production company that creates a user-integrated comedy web series about building a dating app, serving entertainment audiences and developing the IP into a half-hour television series.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Comedy Web Series

akta.pro primary industry

Sketch Comedy Shows (MPAGACAC)

Keywords

• Comedy web series
• Dating app entertainment
• User-generated content
• Digital comedy production
• Streaming web series

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Web Series Content: Stupid Cupid produces a web series about creating a dating app, with Season 1 released in November 2021. The series is being developed into a half-hour comedy series.
2. Platform/App (Development Stage): The fictional dating app from the web series may eventually be developed into a real product, though currently in early fundraising stage with Alpha testing being sought

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Stupid Cupid produces a comedy web series about four friends creating a dating app, with Season 1 (7 episodes plus a teaser and trailer) premiering in November 2021. Episodes are based on true-life dating stories submitted by viewers, creating user-integrated content. The company is developing the property into a half-hour comedy series and is currently seeking Alpha testers for a future app product.

Product overview

Stupid Cupid is a comedy web series that follows Alex and her friends Stevie, Reed, and Harper as they create a dating app. The product consists of a single web series offering (Season 1 with 7 episodes and a teaser/trailer) that is being developed into a half-hour comedy series. The show features user-integrated content based on true-life dating stories submitted by viewers. The fictional app within the show is designed to match users with people they need rather than what they think they want.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Stupid Cupid Web Series (Season 1) A comedy web series about four friends creating a dating app, featuring user-integrated content based on true-life dating stories submitted by viewers. Targeted at adults engaged with the modern dating scene who enjoy comedic entertainment.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Headgum: Comedy podcast network producing and distributing creator-led comedy audio content. Comparable as a creator-first comedy content business built around individual talent, similar in spirit to Stupid Cupid's single-creator model.
• Funny or Die: Pioneer of the comedy web-series format, producing short-form and series comedy content for online audiences. Directly comparable as a web-first comedy content producer with episodic output and PR-driven audience development.
• Above Average: Original comedy video production company (Lorne Michaels/Broadway Video backed) producing sketch and series comedy for digital platforms. Closely comparable as a sketch-comedy digital content studio with episodic format.
• Dropout: Subscription-based digital comedy content company (formerly CollegeHumor) producing original sketch, series, and unscripted content directly to consumers. Most structurally similar to Stupid Cupid as a digitally-native comedy production studio with a creator-led brand and community-supported model.
• Whisper: Anonymous user-generated story-sharing platform. Closely comparable on the user-submitted-stories mechanic that Stupid Cupid uses to source episode content, though Whisper is a tech platform rather than a content producer.

Broad incumbents

• BuzzFeed Studios: Large digital content studio producing web video, series, and franchises. Comparable as a digital-first content production operation, but at vastly greater scale and with established IP and distribution.
• Broadway Video: Lorne Michaels' comedy production company behind SNL and other comedy IP. Relevant as the type of established comedy production entity Stupid Cupid would need to partner with or sell into to develop its half-hour series.
• Bumble: Major dating app with content and community features layered on top of its core matching product. Relevant as the most direct destination of Stupid Cupid's aspirational dating-app pivot, though at an entirely different scale.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/stupidcupidus
• Facebookfacebook.com/stupidcupidus

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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