A young Elisse with her papou, Constantinos Constantinidis. My papou was their main typesetter and they brought him over to Australia,” she said. “My dad’s side actually came to Australia because of The Greek Herald. On one hand, I was always interested in technology and how things worked and on the other, I was really fascinated by different societies and how humans interacted,” she says.įor the Mytilenian whose paternal grandfather was originally from Lemnos, speaking with The Greek Herald is a full-circle moment. “My dad was in IT and my mum was an ancient history teacher.

Putting aside her disappointment in existing dating apps and failure to find worthy single hot spots, the Sydney-sider’s expedition in online match-making was very much inspired by her upbringing. WATCH Elisse Alexander explain to The Greek Herald how her app was born. “This whole dating app thing was a novelty for me but at the same time I couldn’t understand how somebody could form a connection with a digital profile,” she says.

She felt a bit hopeless.”įor Elisse, who was married at the time, her best friend’s frustrating search for the one became her extra-curricular fun. “She felt increasingly frustrated with them because you’d swipe and nothing would come of it. “Melanie came out of a long term relationship and she didn’t know where to start, so she downloaded a few dating apps,” Elisse says. Co-founders, Elisse Alexander and Melanie Leahy.

The Greek Australian was first made aware of the deficiencies in online dating in 2019, after several failed attempts at being a wing woman to her best friend and now business partner, Melanie Leahy. You know that exciting feeling you get when you see someone across the room and you share that moment of eye contact? Online dating can’t do that,” Elisse tells The Greek Herald. “Humans are social creatures, we need physical contact. For some it is a four-lettered word that is hard to say, whilst for others it is an emotion, feeling or knowing that is hard to find.įor Elisse Alexander, developing a romance is something that can’t be derived from digital interactions alone and that is why she co-founded Australia’s newest dating app Ziinkle, which is currently live and operational in NSW.

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