Hullo Announces Major Upgrade to Its AI Matchmaking System, Backed by Participation in Nvidia Inception, AWS Activate, and Google for Startups

The upgraded platform delivers a smarter AI Matchmaking system that reduces swipe fatigue and improves meaningful connections worldwide.

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Dec. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hullo Dating Co., Ltd today announced a major upgrade to its AI-powered matchmaking system. Originally launched in 2024, Hullo now introduces a smarter and more precise AI Matchmaking engine designed to help users find more compatible partners with less effort. Through its participation in Nvidia Inception, AWS Activate, and Google for Startups, Hullo continues to enhance the modern dating experience through predictive intelligence, behavioral insights, and voice-first interactions.

Online dating continues to evolve, yet many users remain overwhelmed by endless choices and discouraged by low-quality matches. Hullo was built to address these challenges by offering an experience that is more intentional, more efficient, and psychologically informed. By leveraging advanced AI models that analyze communication patterns, lifestyle indicators, personal preferences, and engagement signals, Hullo delivers curated match suggestions rooted in deeper compatibility rather than surface-level traits.

"Today's dating apps provide access but not necessarily alignment," said Sam Tran, Founder of Hullo. "Many people spend hours browsing profiles only to receive outcomes that feel random or inconsistent. With Hullo, we wanted to build a system that understands real human compatibility — not just shared hobbies or attractive photos. Our AI engine continuously learns from user behavior to deliver match suggestions that improve over time, making online dating feel more natural and less exhausting."

A New Approach to Modern Dating 

Hullo's platform is built around an AI-driven compatibility system that evaluates far more than basic profile attributes. The app analyzes micro-interactions, communication styles, voice prompts, and behavioral patterns to identify which users are more likely to form meaningful connections. By focusing on emotional resonance and communication compatibility, Hullo moves beyond traditional filters that rely on swipe behavior or simple questionnaires.

The company believes this method more accurately reflects how people connect in real life. Instead of asking users to sort through hundreds of profiles, Hullo presents a smaller, highly curated set of matches that improve over time. This approach is especially valuable for people seeking serious or intentional dating, where compatibility matters more than volume.

Key Features and Innovations

Hullo introduces several features aimed at improving authenticity, reducing friction, and prioritizing user comfort:

AI Matchmaking Engine
The core of the platform is an intelligent compatibility model that interprets patterns across user behavior, interests, and communication style. It updates and adapts with each interaction, generating increasingly accurate match recommendations.

Voice-First Profiles
Users can add short voice introductions to showcase personality in a more expressive format. This feature supports the growing trend toward audio-based interactions and allows users to connect beyond text and images.

AI-Assisted Profile Creation
For those who struggle with writing bios, Hullo includes an integrated AI Bio generator that helps users describe themselves clearly and naturally, leading to more genuine engagement.

Safety and Verification Tools
Supported by secure infrastructure from AWS and Google Cloud, Hullo offers layers of verification and privacy safeguards to help users feel more confident while connecting online.

Industry Support and Technological Advantage

Participation in Nvidia Inception provides Hullo with access to GPU resources, technical guidance, and a community of AI-focused startups. These capabilities allow the team to train more complex models that interpret compatibility with greater nuance.

Through AWS Activate and Google for Startups, the company receives cloud infrastructure credits, technical guidance, and scaling support. This ensures the platform operates with high stability and can adapt smoothly to rapid growth in user activity.

"Our goal is long-term global scalability," Sam Tran added. "With support from leading technology programs, we can continue to push the boundaries of AI-driven dating while maintaining reliability and performance at every step."

Market Outlook and Future Expansion

The rise of AI-driven products signals a broader shift in how digital platforms personalize user experiences. Hullo Dating Co., Ltd believes matchmaking is one of the most meaningful applications of AI, as the technology can help reduce decision fatigue and improve relationship outcomes by guiding people toward more aligned partners.

Looking ahead, the company plans to introduce additional features such as context-aware conversation tools, personalized date suggestions, and deeper emotional compatibility mapping. These enhancements are designed to support users from the very first interaction to the beginning of a potential relationship.

The app is currently expanding to English-speaking and Southeast Asian markets, with plans for U.S. growth in 2025. Users can learn more or access the platform at https://hullo.dating Or Download the app at https://hullo.dating/download

About Hullo Dating Co., Ltd

Hullo Dating Co., Ltd is a technology company focused on creating AI-powered products for modern relationship building. The company is the developer of Hullo, an AI matchmaking dating app designed to help people form meaningful connections through advanced compatibility modeling and human-centered design. For more information, visit https://hullo.dating/about.

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Hullo Announces Major Upgrade to Its AI Matchmaking System, Backed by Participation in Nvidia Inception, AWS Activate, and Google for Startups

SINGAPORE, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Ladder Group ("Alpha Ladder"), a Singapore-headquartered Digital Green Group driving sustainable financial and technology innovation through subsidiaries including MetaComp and Alpha Ladder Finance, and Maqam International Holding, an Abu Dhabi-based company, today announced the establishment of a joint venture focused on real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation and digital payments across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

The announcement follows MetaComp's close of its Pre-A funding round at USD 35 million in total raised, backed by Alibaba, another internet conglomerate, Eastern Bell, Noah, Sky9, and a fund affiliated with Asia's largest logistics infrastructure company. Having achieved profitability in 2025 and with USD 100 million in instantaneous liquidity on its platform, MetaComp enters this partnership as an operationally proven Web2.5 Pay + Wealth business model, institutionally backed payment infrastructure provider — capitalised and ready to deploy across priority corridors, including MENA.

Maqam International Holding is built on a multi-decade legacy as an operator and developer of landmark real assets, such as Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi, across the Middle East. Running a portfolio of this scale and institutional complexity means the cross-border payment and settlement gap this joint venture addresses is not a strategic theme they are exploring — it is a constraint they already manage. Alpha Ladder delivers the full-stack technology, compliance infrastructure, and operational capability to resolve it.

The joint venture will be domiciled within the ADGM, the UAE's premier international financial center.

MENA Digital Finance: The Opportunity
The MENA digital payments market was valued at USD 248 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 420 billion by 2030, growing at a compound annual rate of approximately 11% [1]. Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) RWA tokenisation represents a nearly USD 500 billion opportunity by 2030 [2], as global on-chain real-world assets surpassed USD 24 billion by mid-2025 [3].

The convergence of premium real assets, regulatory maturity, and institutional demand in the Gulf creates the conditions for a class of tokenised assets built on quality collateral and operational rigour.

Chairman of Maqam International Holding:
"Our partnership with Alpha Ladder Group reflects a shared conviction that the UAE's position as a global financial hub is strengthened by the quality of the infrastructure built within it. We bring our assets, our relationships, and our deep roots in Abu Dhabi's institutional ecosystem. Alpha Ladder brings the technology, the compliance framework, and the operational capability to make this platform world-class. Together, we are building something that meets the highest global standards from day one. Furthermore, this joint venture highlights Abu Dhabi as the premier global destination for investments in Fintech"

Maqam International Holding's Proven Investment Pedigree
Maqam International Holding has a legacy of decades building and operating landmark Abu Dhabi assets — including Etihad Towers — alongside global institutional partners across real estate, hospitality, and infrastructure. That operating history is achieved from sovereign relationships, family office networks, and regulatory access it has accumulated across the Middle East over the same period. Few institutions in the region combine proven hard-asset operational depth with direct proximity to the capital allocators and regulatory channels that determine how capital moves in this market.

Dr Bo Bai, Group Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, Alpha Ladder Group:
"Alpha Ladder was built on the conviction that the future of financial infrastructure is hybrid — and the UAE is where that convergence is happening at the highest institutional level. We are building an institution whose experience of the problem is as deep as our ability to solve it. Together, we are deploying compliant infrastructure that connects Abu Dhabi's real asset base to global capital markets — at the standard both parties have built their reputations on. Our commitment to the UAE is firm and while the region faces real pressures, we are deepening our presence here because we believe in the UAE's institutional resilience and in the strength of what we are building together."

Core Focus Areas
The joint venture targets three pillars of digital financial infrastructure — an integrated stack that, taken together, represents one of the most comprehensive regulated fintech deployments connecting MENA and Asia to date.

• Cross-border payments: Cross-border payments between MENA and Asia remain slow, costly, and fragmented. MetaComp's StableX Network addresses this directly, routing payments across its partner network of traditional bank rails and stablecoin rails simultaneously. The StableX Engine handles real-time settlement at a fraction of conventional cost, while the VisionX Engine screens every transaction for compliance as it moves — across both fiat and on-chain activity — ensuring regulatory integrity without sacrificing speed.
• RWA tokenisation: Real-world assets — from real estate to infrastructure — have historically been illiquid, difficult to divide, and accessible only to large institutional players. Alpha Ladder Finance's patented Non-Fungible Digital Twin (NFDT) technology changes this by creating a live, blockchain-anchored digital record of each asset, reflecting its actual condition, performance, and ownership in real time. The result is a more transparent and auditable framework for asset fractionalisation and participation designed to support compliant structures.
• Capital markets: Connecting MENA-based companies and funds to global liquidity pools through regulated digital channels.

Strengthening Singapore-UAE Fintech Axis
Singapore and the UAE are two of the world's leading regulated digital finance gateways. Singapore's MAS advances this through Project Guardian, stablecoin frameworks, and digital payment token licensing under the Payment Services Act.

In the UAE, ADGM is the primary regulatory domicile for this joint venture, a jurisdiction with direct application of English Common Law, comprehensive frameworks for tokenised securities, digital asset custody, and cross-border payments, and robust AML requirements aligned with FATF standards. This joint venture is a direct expression of the digital finance leadership the jurisdiction has built.

H.E. Jamal Abdulla Mohammad Bin Abdulwahab Alsuwaidi, UAE Ambassador to Singapore:
"The UAE strongly believes in the mutual benefits driven by forward-looking Singapore-UAE partnerships like this Alpha Ladder-Maqam International Holding collaboration. We welcome Alpha Ladder as a leading Singapore entity at the forefront of building resilient cross-border financial ecosystems between our nations."

Dr Brian Shegar, UAE Singapore Business Council:
"We applaud Alpha Ladder's pivotal role in this landmark collaboration and encourage more Singapore businesses to follow their lead in advancing UAE-Singapore economic ties through cross-border innovation and sustainable financial infrastructure development. We are delighted to have played a role in encouraging Alpha Ladder to pursue its UAE business aspirations."

The joint venture intends to apply for a licence with the ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) and launch initial operations in 2026. Alpha Ladder and Maqam International Holding are building the institutional digital finance infrastructure that connects Abu Dhabi's premium real asset base to global capital markets, powered by MetaComp and governed by Alpha Ladder's global compliance standards.

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Maqam International Holding
Maqam International Holding is an Abu Dhabi based company, dedicated to managing a diverse investment portfolio of assets and has been a cornerstone for strategic growth, driving economic development in UAE and beyond. With unwavering commitment to shaping a prosperous future, Maqam International Holding is dedicated to fostering transformative opportunities that enhance economic vitality and create job prospects within the economy. At the heart of our strategic vision are three pivotal areas of focus:

Real Estate

• • Acquiring, developing, and managing residential, commercial, and retail assets

Hotels

• • Development of Hotels managed by top-tier global brands in MENA and Zanzibar

International and MENA Investments

• • Strategic investments in equities and global investments in private equities, managed portfolios, equity and associate investments

About Alpha Ladder Group Pte. Ltd
Headquartered in Singapore, Alpha Ladder Group is a technology and financial services group driving Digital Green Transformation. We operate on the conviction that the future of financial infrastructure is neither purely centralised nor distributed, but a Hybrid.

From our first member subsidiary founded in 2016, we have grown into a multi-vertical ecosystem that operationalises this conviction across three critical sectors:

Digital Financial Services

• • MetaComp Group and affiliates deliver at group-level Asia's leading licensed fiat &stablecoin hybrid platform, providing compliant payment & wealth services, with more than US$10billion payment volume and US$500+ million wealth AUM* in 2025.

Sustainable Investment

• • Asia Green Fund, an award-winning impact investment firm with around US$2.5 billion AUM* focusing on investing in deep-tech companies for decarbonisation.

AI-Powered Green Technology

• • MVGX, a leading AI ESG platform providing end-to-end carbon SaaS solutions: AI emission factor search engine, Scope 1, 2, & 3 measurement, decarbonisation rating, AI ESG reporting, green asset tokenisation & trading; and
  • Greenlyzer, a deep tech company building a hydrogen-based Green Moving Grid, a distributed power grid to augment traditional grid, to deliver a robust, intelligent and sustainable power infrastructure for next-generation AI.

At Alpha Ladder Group, our name reflects our commitment to continuous evolution. We believe that by engineering the intersection of Digital and Green, we move the world forward to pursue sustainable alpha—one particle at a time.

*Figures as of April 2026

References
[1] Mordor Intelligence, "Middle East and North Africa Digital Payments Market"
[2] Real-world asset tokenization: a $500 billion opportunity for the GCC
[3] InvestaX Q3 2025 RWA Report

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Alpha Ladder Group and MetaComp Partner with Maqam International Holding, an Abu Dhabi (UAE) company, to Advance RWA Tokenisation and Web2.5 Payments Across Singapore-UAE Corridor