Grant for upstart video dating platform Noveil

Two Irvine-based firms, Gen Z-targeted video-dating platform Noveil and diagnosis-based food delivery service Nutrible, each received $75,000 grants from economic development nonprofit Arch Grants. Both companies made it to Arch Grants’ 2022 cohort from a pool of 500 applicants. The nonprofit awarded over $2 million to the 23 winning companies in its startups competition.

Noveil, founded this year, is an online dating system with video-based screening for users. The funding will allow Noveil to further develop its platform and gain more user traction by expanding into more college campuses, Arch Grants Executive Director Gabe Angieri told the Business Journal.

Noveil founder Michael Allotey previously worked as an engineer at Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN). He earned his degree in computer and information sciences at University of California, Irvine.

Nutrible, founded in 2019, aims to supply users with diagnosis-based, safe-to-eat food as soon as they are discharged from hospitals, emergency departments and other healthcare settings, the company said. The $75,000 grant will enable Nutrible to gain more market traction, Angieri said, as the startup plans to expand its services across the country.

Nutrible founder and CEO Kwamane Liddell currently works as the Orange County regional director of operations of digital healthcare services company Optum Inc. He previously worked as a registered nurse Heartland Regional Medical Center in Illinois and as the administrative services manager at hospital and wellness center network Almeda Health System.