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Apprentice reject axed by Lord Sugar to make more money than show’s winner

Joseph Valente scooped £250K from the peer - bur runner-up Vana Koutsomitis' dating app is now valued at £2MILLION

A DATING app invented by the last Apprentice runner-up is on course to make more money than the show’s winner.

Vana Koutsomitis has won £150,000 investment in three days from the crowd-funding site Seedrs for her idea.

 Vana's dating app is set to make more money than the winner of The Apprentice
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Vana's dating app is set to make more money than the winner of The ApprenticeCredit: Getty Images

With three weeks of fund-raising to go she is set to overtake plumber Joseph Valente, who won £250,000 from tycoon Lord Sugar.

 'You're fired!' Lord Sugar's famous line in the BBC show The Apprentice
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'You're fired!' Lord Sugar's famous line in the BBC show The ApprenticeCredit: PA:Press Association

Her app DatePlay, already valued at £2million, uses computer games to match couples.

Vana, 28, has been supported by Lord Sugar’s advisor Claude Littner and comedian Romesh Ranganathan, who appears on Apprentice spin-off show You’re Fired.

 Vana was the last Apprentice runner-up but has since won £150K investment in three days for her dating app
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Vana was the last Apprentice runner-up but has since won £150K investment in three days for her dating appCredit: BBC

She said: “We want everyone on board to prove Lord Sugar wrong.”

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