Accel

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 in Palo Alto, California, that backs early and growth-stage technology startups worldwide. It concentrates on software, cloud, data, mobile, digital media, and adjacent sectors, including consumer and enterprise technology, fintech, security, and healthcare. The firm supports entrepreneurs with long-term guidance and the resources needed to build world-class, category-defining companies. Accel maintains offices in Palo Alto, San Francisco, London, and Bangalore, and has backed a broad portfolio featuring notable companies such as Atlassian, Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, and Cloudera.

Pratik Agarwal

Principal

Casey Aylward

Partner

Mahendran Balachandran

Partner

Luca Bocchio

Partner

Philippe Botteri

Partner

Past deals in Messaging

Napkin AI

Seed Round in 2024
Napkin AI is a startup that specializes in transforming written content into customizable visuals, enhancing communication across various platforms. Founded by Pramod Sharma and Jerome Scholler, the creators of AI gaming company Osmo, Napkin aims to make business communication more engaging and effective through compelling visual storytelling. The company's platform allows users to express ideas with drawings, icons, charts, and diagrams, and even record and edit videos, making complex concepts easier to understand. Napkin is designed to work seamlessly with popular tools such as Google Docs, Slides, Canva, Slack, Word, PowerPoint, email, and text messaging.

Rasa

Series C in 2024
Rasa Technologies GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing machine learning tools for creating conversational software, including chatbots and virtual assistants. The company offers a suite of products, notably Rasa Open Source, a widely adopted framework for building text- and voice-based AI assistants, and Rasa X, a toolset designed to enhance and share these assistants. Rasa Enterprise provides an enterprise-grade solution for developing contextual assistants at scale. Rasa's platform is utilized across various industries, including healthcare, insurance, banking, telecommunications, and travel, focusing on applications such as lead generation, internal process automation, and customer service. The company is known for its commitment to data privacy and security, catering to both startups and large enterprises.

Chronicle

Seed Round in 2023
Chronicle develops an innovative presentation platform that enables teams to create engaging, interactive stories. Its platform offers a range of customization options for fonts, colors, and positioning, along with interactive features such as conversations, polls, and live reactions.

Powerplay

Series A in 2022
Powerplay is a technology company that develops project management software specifically tailored for construction and architectural projects. Their flagship product, PowerplayOS, is a mobile app ecosystem designed to streamline communication between site teams and offices. It facilitates efficient tracking of activities, inventory, and progress, enabling businesses to manage projects more effectively, meet deadlines, and stay within budget.

Charles

Series A in 2022
Charles is a prominent WhatsApp marketing platform based in Berlin, specializing in conversational commerce. The company provides an intuitive interface that allows brands to effectively manage and enhance their communication with consumers through messaging applications. Its core offerings include Campaigns, which enable brands to send targeted marketing messages and monitor customer responses, and Journeys, designed for creating automated conversational flows. This functionality includes tools such as product finders and promotional competitions, all while ensuring compliance with GDPR regulations. Additionally, Charles supports brands with analytics and proactive assistance, enhancing customer engagement and driving sales growth.

SymTerra

Seed Round in 2022
SymTerra develops a communication tool tailored for on-site project teams, replacing WhatsApp and integrating with existing systems to enhance real-time reporting and minimize risks.

RetainIQ

Seed Round in 2022
RetainIQ is an e-commerce marketing company founded in 2021 by Arpit Gupta, Sulakshan Kumar, and Sitakanta Ray, and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. The company specializes in helping global brands grow their online sales by providing a platform that enables the segmentation and delivery of personalized messages to customers using artificial intelligence. This capability allows businesses to create tailored experiences for their customers at scale, enhancing both customer conversion and retention. Through its innovative approach, RetainIQ aims to optimize marketing strategies for e-commerce businesses.

Podium

Series D in 2021
Podium, Inc. is a technology company based in Provo, Utah, that specializes in customer communication and review management for businesses. Founded in 2013, Podium provides a mobile platform that enables businesses to collect and manage online reviews from customers at the point of transaction. Its features allow users to post reviews across multiple platforms like Google and Facebook, helping businesses to enhance their online reputation and customer engagement. The platform includes tools for managing customer interactions, offering messaging capabilities for businesses to communicate effectively with leads and customers. Through aggregation, analysis, and management of reviews, Podium aims to assist organizations in understanding customer feedback, increasing their online visibility, and influencing purchasing decisions.

Wizard

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2021, Wizard is a New York-based software company specializing in B2B solutions. It leverages conversational AI technology to enable brands to sell and market products directly through text messaging, enhancing customer engagement and conversion rates.

Powerplay

Seed Round in 2021
Powerplay is a technology company that develops project management software specifically tailored for construction and architectural projects. Their flagship product, PowerplayOS, is a mobile app ecosystem designed to streamline communication between site teams and offices. It facilitates efficient tracking of activities, inventory, and progress, enabling businesses to manage projects more effectively, meet deadlines, and stay within budget.

Pyn

Seed Round in 2021
Pyn is a human resources company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. The company develops an employee-centric communication platform designed to enhance workplace interactions by personalizing messages and delivering relevant information. Utilizing marketing techniques such as personalization, scheduling, and automated triggering, Pyn's tool helps organizations cut through the clutter of communication, ensuring that employees receive timely and pertinent messages at critical moments. By focusing on employee engagement and effective communication, Pyn aims to improve the overall experience of employees within their organizations.

Ada

Series C in 2021
Ada Support Inc. is a computer software company that specializes in a chatbot platform designed to enhance customer experience for enterprise businesses. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Ada's platform leverages artificial intelligence to enable non-technical support teams to automate responses to customer inquiries. By utilizing a web and mobile machine learning engine, the platform effectively reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers independently. Additionally, the system is capable of learning from interactions, continuously improving its ability to address customer needs and streamline support processes.

Charles

Seed Round in 2021
Charles is a prominent WhatsApp marketing platform based in Berlin, specializing in conversational commerce. The company provides an intuitive interface that allows brands to effectively manage and enhance their communication with consumers through messaging applications. Its core offerings include Campaigns, which enable brands to send targeted marketing messages and monitor customer responses, and Journeys, designed for creating automated conversational flows. This functionality includes tools such as product finders and promotional competitions, all while ensuring compliance with GDPR regulations. Additionally, Charles supports brands with analytics and proactive assistance, enhancing customer engagement and driving sales growth.

Hopin

Series B in 2020
Founded in London in 2019 by Johnny Boufarhat, Hopin operates a live virtual events platform that enables users to create engaging online experiences. It facilitates networking, learning, and interaction through features such as one-on-one meetings, group sessions, keynote presentations, chat messaging, polls, and interactive expo areas.

Bird

Series C in 2020
MessageBird B.V. is a cloud communications platform that provides software solutions for customer communication, including voice services, SMS, email, and two-factor authentication. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Amsterdam, the company operates additional offices in major cities such as San Francisco, London, and Singapore. MessageBird aims to simplify customer communication by offering a comprehensive suite of APIs that enable enterprises to connect reliably with their global customers. With its own telecommunications carrier infrastructure, MessageBird serves over 15,000 businesses, ensuring fast and dependable communication through SMS, voice, and chat services. The company has garnered significant attention and investment, including a notable $60 million Series A funding round in 2017, underscoring its position as a leading player in the European software industry.

Delightree

Seed Round in 2020
Delightree is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in developing a comprehensive franchising technology platform tailored for emerging franchise businesses. The platform offers a range of tools designed to simplify the process of opening and managing franchise locations. Its features include task management and tracking, operational automation, and tools for enhancing team communication and engagement. This enables franchisees to efficiently create, assign, and monitor tasks across various employees and locations. By streamlining onboarding and training, Delightree facilitates faster location launches and helps franchises maintain consistency in customer experiences. The company's innovative approach supports franchise growth while preserving brand integrity.

Pyn

Seed Round in 2020
Pyn is a human resources company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. The company develops an employee-centric communication platform designed to enhance workplace interactions by personalizing messages and delivering relevant information. Utilizing marketing techniques such as personalization, scheduling, and automated triggering, Pyn's tool helps organizations cut through the clutter of communication, ensuring that employees receive timely and pertinent messages at critical moments. By focusing on employee engagement and effective communication, Pyn aims to improve the overall experience of employees within their organizations.

Hopin

Series A in 2020
Founded in London in 2019 by Johnny Boufarhat, Hopin operates a live virtual events platform that enables users to create engaging online experiences. It facilitates networking, learning, and interaction through features such as one-on-one meetings, group sessions, keynote presentations, chat messaging, polls, and interactive expo areas.

Rasa

Series B in 2020
Rasa Technologies GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing machine learning tools for creating conversational software, including chatbots and virtual assistants. The company offers a suite of products, notably Rasa Open Source, a widely adopted framework for building text- and voice-based AI assistants, and Rasa X, a toolset designed to enhance and share these assistants. Rasa Enterprise provides an enterprise-grade solution for developing contextual assistants at scale. Rasa's platform is utilized across various industries, including healthcare, insurance, banking, telecommunications, and travel, focusing on applications such as lead generation, internal process automation, and customer service. The company is known for its commitment to data privacy and security, catering to both startups and large enterprises.

Podium

Series C in 2020
Podium, Inc. is a technology company based in Provo, Utah, that specializes in customer communication and review management for businesses. Founded in 2013, Podium provides a mobile platform that enables businesses to collect and manage online reviews from customers at the point of transaction. Its features allow users to post reviews across multiple platforms like Google and Facebook, helping businesses to enhance their online reputation and customer engagement. The platform includes tools for managing customer interactions, offering messaging capabilities for businesses to communicate effectively with leads and customers. Through aggregation, analysis, and management of reviews, Podium aims to assist organizations in understanding customer feedback, increasing their online visibility, and influencing purchasing decisions.

Ada

Series B in 2020
Ada Support Inc. is a computer software company that specializes in a chatbot platform designed to enhance customer experience for enterprise businesses. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Ada's platform leverages artificial intelligence to enable non-technical support teams to automate responses to customer inquiries. By utilizing a web and mobile machine learning engine, the platform effectively reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers independently. Additionally, the system is capable of learning from interactions, continuously improving its ability to address customer needs and streamline support processes.

Rasa

Series A in 2019
Rasa Technologies GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing machine learning tools for creating conversational software, including chatbots and virtual assistants. The company offers a suite of products, notably Rasa Open Source, a widely adopted framework for building text- and voice-based AI assistants, and Rasa X, a toolset designed to enhance and share these assistants. Rasa Enterprise provides an enterprise-grade solution for developing contextual assistants at scale. Rasa's platform is utilized across various industries, including healthcare, insurance, banking, telecommunications, and travel, focusing on applications such as lead generation, internal process automation, and customer service. The company is known for its commitment to data privacy and security, catering to both startups and large enterprises.

Slack Technologies

Series H in 2018
Slack Technologies is a cloud-based business communication and collaboration platform for teams. The service combines messaging, file sharing, voice and video calls, a workflow builder, and extensive app integrations to unify people, tools, and data in a single interface. Sold as software as a service, Slack aims to improve workplace efficiency and information flow across industries worldwide. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, originally under the name Tiny Speck before rebranding to Slack. Slack serves organizations of various sizes, providing a scalable platform that streamlines communication and collaboration across departments.

Tact.ai

Series C in 2018
Tact.ai is an enterprise AI company that develops a conversational AI platform, Tact.ai, enabling connectivity between applications and devices for sales teams. The platform includes AI Sales Assistance, which uses chat and voice to automate administrative tasks, and Intelligent Workspace, a seller-controlled workspace for coordinating deal teams, partners, and customers. It enhances sales workflows by connecting data with email, calendar, and social channels through natural text, touch, and voice interactions. The company serves technology, sales, and life sciences customers, including Fortune 500 companies, across the United States, Europe, and India. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, it is backed by venture firms such as Microsoft M12, Salesforce Ventures, Novartis, Lilly, and McKesson Ventures.

Podium

Series B in 2018
Podium, Inc. is a technology company based in Provo, Utah, that specializes in customer communication and review management for businesses. Founded in 2013, Podium provides a mobile platform that enables businesses to collect and manage online reviews from customers at the point of transaction. Its features allow users to post reviews across multiple platforms like Google and Facebook, helping businesses to enhance their online reputation and customer engagement. The platform includes tools for managing customer interactions, offering messaging capabilities for businesses to communicate effectively with leads and customers. Through aggregation, analysis, and management of reviews, Podium aims to assist organizations in understanding customer feedback, increasing their online visibility, and influencing purchasing decisions.

Station

Seed Round in 2018
Station is a company that has developed a browser extension designed to enhance workplace productivity by integrating various software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications into a single, organized interface. The extension offers a sidebar that allows users to easily access up to 500 different applications without the distraction of navigating through multiple tabs. With approximately 11,000 weekly active users who average over four and a half hours of usage per day, Station aims to simplify the user experience by providing an intuitive platform for seamless transitions between applications, documents, notes, and messages. The company envisions future opportunities for deeper integrations with major SaaS providers, as well as promotional avenues for app discovery.

Aptly

Seed Round in 2017
Aptly employs AI and machine learning to enhance property management by analyzing conversations from millions of properties. It interprets email, SMS, and calls, correlating insights with property data for targeted team routing and automated responses. Additionally, it automates resident feedback surveys, contributing to a happiness score.

Bird

Series A in 2017
MessageBird B.V. is a cloud communications platform that provides software solutions for customer communication, including voice services, SMS, email, and two-factor authentication. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Amsterdam, the company operates additional offices in major cities such as San Francisco, London, and Singapore. MessageBird aims to simplify customer communication by offering a comprehensive suite of APIs that enable enterprises to connect reliably with their global customers. With its own telecommunications carrier infrastructure, MessageBird serves over 15,000 businesses, ensuring fast and dependable communication through SMS, voice, and chat services. The company has garnered significant attention and investment, including a notable $60 million Series A funding round in 2017, underscoring its position as a leading player in the European software industry.

Slack Technologies

Series G in 2017
Slack Technologies is a cloud-based business communication and collaboration platform for teams. The service combines messaging, file sharing, voice and video calls, a workflow builder, and extensive app integrations to unify people, tools, and data in a single interface. Sold as software as a service, Slack aims to improve workplace efficiency and information flow across industries worldwide. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, originally under the name Tiny Speck before rebranding to Slack. Slack serves organizations of various sizes, providing a scalable platform that streamlines communication and collaboration across departments.

Podium

Series A in 2017
Podium, Inc. is a technology company based in Provo, Utah, that specializes in customer communication and review management for businesses. Founded in 2013, Podium provides a mobile platform that enables businesses to collect and manage online reviews from customers at the point of transaction. Its features allow users to post reviews across multiple platforms like Google and Facebook, helping businesses to enhance their online reputation and customer engagement. The platform includes tools for managing customer interactions, offering messaging capabilities for businesses to communicate effectively with leads and customers. Through aggregation, analysis, and management of reviews, Podium aims to assist organizations in understanding customer feedback, increasing their online visibility, and influencing purchasing decisions.

Letgo

Series C in 2017
Letgo is a mobile platform founded in 2015, facilitating local buying and selling of second-hand goods. With over 100 million downloads and 400 million listings, it's one of America's most popular apps for trading items, ranging from electronics and vehicles to clothing and furniture. Letgo's innovative features, such as image recognition and instant chat, simplify the process of listing items and connecting buyers and sellers. The platform's user-friendly interface allows users to snap a photo, and letgo automatically suggests a title, price, and category for the listing.

Tact.ai

Series B in 2016
Tact.ai is an enterprise AI company that develops a conversational AI platform, Tact.ai, enabling connectivity between applications and devices for sales teams. The platform includes AI Sales Assistance, which uses chat and voice to automate administrative tasks, and Intelligent Workspace, a seller-controlled workspace for coordinating deal teams, partners, and customers. It enhances sales workflows by connecting data with email, calendar, and social channels through natural text, touch, and voice interactions. The company serves technology, sales, and life sciences customers, including Fortune 500 companies, across the United States, Europe, and India. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, it is backed by venture firms such as Microsoft M12, Salesforce Ventures, Novartis, Lilly, and McKesson Ventures.

AceBot.ai

Seed Round in 2016
AceBot.ai is an information technology company founded in 2015 and based in California, specializing in online conversational surveys. The company develops an artificial intelligence-based chatbot tool that allows users to create and manage customizable surveys. This tool features advanced logic, rules, and multi-survey support, enabling organizations to conduct polls, report expenses, and manage daily tasks efficiently. By offering white-labeled survey chatbots with robust integration capabilities, AceBot.ai aims to enhance productivity and streamline operations for businesses across various sectors.

Letgo

Series B in 2016
Letgo is a mobile platform founded in 2015, facilitating local buying and selling of second-hand goods. With over 100 million downloads and 400 million listings, it's one of America's most popular apps for trading items, ranging from electronics and vehicles to clothing and furniture. Letgo's innovative features, such as image recognition and instant chat, simplify the process of listing items and connecting buyers and sellers. The platform's user-friendly interface allows users to snap a photo, and letgo automatically suggests a title, price, and category for the listing.

Slack Technologies

Series F in 2016
Slack Technologies is a cloud-based business communication and collaboration platform for teams. The service combines messaging, file sharing, voice and video calls, a workflow builder, and extensive app integrations to unify people, tools, and data in a single interface. Sold as software as a service, Slack aims to improve workplace efficiency and information flow across industries worldwide. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, originally under the name Tiny Speck before rebranding to Slack. Slack serves organizations of various sizes, providing a scalable platform that streamlines communication and collaboration across departments.

Dasher

Seed Round in 2015
Dasher is a messaging platform founded in 2013 and headquartered in the United States. The company's application focuses on enhancing communication among users by offering a variety of features, including live location sharing, map sharing, GIFs, and photos. It also enables users to conduct polls within their groups and delete messages after sending them. Additionally, Dasher integrates peer-to-peer payments through a partnership with Venmo, allowing seamless financial transactions among users. The platform is designed to keep individuals connected with friends and family while providing an array of interactive tools to enrich their social experience.

Slack Technologies

Series D in 2014
Slack Technologies is a cloud-based business communication and collaboration platform for teams. The service combines messaging, file sharing, voice and video calls, a workflow builder, and extensive app integrations to unify people, tools, and data in a single interface. Sold as software as a service, Slack aims to improve workplace efficiency and information flow across industries worldwide. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, originally under the name Tiny Speck before rebranding to Slack. Slack serves organizations of various sizes, providing a scalable platform that streamlines communication and collaboration across departments.

Konotor

Seed Round in 2014
Konotor is a user engagement platform based in Chennai, India, that specializes in facilitating two-way communication between mobile application users and businesses. The platform enhances user interaction by providing a rich messaging inbox, along with segmentation capabilities and event-driven messaging tools. This allows businesses to engage with their users in a personalized and contextual manner, effectively addressing marketing, re-engagement, feedback, and customer support needs. Available for both iOS and Android, Konotor aims to improve user experience and foster stronger relationships between businesses and their mobile application users. As of December 2015, Konotor operates as a subsidiary of Freshdesk Inc.

Tact.ai

Series A in 2014
Tact.ai is an enterprise AI company that develops a conversational AI platform, Tact.ai, enabling connectivity between applications and devices for sales teams. The platform includes AI Sales Assistance, which uses chat and voice to automate administrative tasks, and Intelligent Workspace, a seller-controlled workspace for coordinating deal teams, partners, and customers. It enhances sales workflows by connecting data with email, calendar, and social channels through natural text, touch, and voice interactions. The company serves technology, sales, and life sciences customers, including Fortune 500 companies, across the United States, Europe, and India. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, it is backed by venture firms such as Microsoft M12, Salesforce Ventures, Novartis, Lilly, and McKesson Ventures.

Discord

Series A in 2013
Discord operates as a communication platform offering voice, video, and text services for users to interact with friends and communities. Originally created for gamers, it has since expanded its user base to include various groups such as art communities, study groups, and local clubs.

Pontis

Series D in 2012
Pontis operates through its primary product, the Marketing Delivery Platform (MDP) for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). This marketing software system supports real time, automatic execution and fulfillment of personal and contextual marketing activities across platforms and customer touch points. By constantly tracking customers behaviour, preferences and response to offers; automating dynamic execution of marketing activities in response to these parameters; and allowing event-based, contextual dialogue with customers; the Pontis MDP has been proven to deliver Mobile, TV and fix line service providers double digit improvements in ARPU, service adoption and customer retention, while improving customer experience.

Discord

Seed Round in 2012
Discord operates as a communication platform offering voice, video, and text services for users to interact with friends and communities. Originally created for gamers, it has since expanded its user base to include various groups such as art communities, study groups, and local clubs.

Slack Technologies

Series B in 2011
Slack Technologies is a cloud-based business communication and collaboration platform for teams. The service combines messaging, file sharing, voice and video calls, a workflow builder, and extensive app integrations to unify people, tools, and data in a single interface. Sold as software as a service, Slack aims to improve workplace efficiency and information flow across industries worldwide. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, originally under the name Tiny Speck before rebranding to Slack. Slack serves organizations of various sizes, providing a scalable platform that streamlines communication and collaboration across departments.

migme

Series C in 2010
Migme Limited is a global digital media company that operates a fan-based social entertainment platform called migme. The platform offers chat, content, and microblogging services, allowing users to post bite-sized blogs, send messages, and exchange virtual gifts. Revenue is generated through gifts, games, avatar items, emoticons, and stickers. Founded in 2005, the company is listed and registered in Australia, with its headquarters located in Singapore.

Telepo

Series B in 2010
Telepo is a Swedish company based in Stockholm, founded in 2003, that specializes in enterprise mobility and converged communication solutions for businesses and service providers. It offers a range of business communication services, including single number reach, presence, personal call routing, unified messaging, and integration with third-party applications. Telepo's solutions integrate mobile, fixed, and IP-based communications networks, providing features such as over-the-air deployment, configuration, and remote diagnostics of devices and services. The company also offers professional services like technical pre-studies, customization, training, consulting, project management, and implementation. Additionally, Telepo provides cloud communications software, including unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) and fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) platforms to service providers, mobile operators, and carriers across Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Slack Technologies

Series A in 2010
Slack Technologies is a cloud-based business communication and collaboration platform for teams. The service combines messaging, file sharing, voice and video calls, a workflow builder, and extensive app integrations to unify people, tools, and data in a single interface. Sold as software as a service, Slack aims to improve workplace efficiency and information flow across industries worldwide. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, originally under the name Tiny Speck before rebranding to Slack. Slack serves organizations of various sizes, providing a scalable platform that streamlines communication and collaboration across departments.

Pontis

Series C in 2009
Pontis operates through its primary product, the Marketing Delivery Platform (MDP) for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). This marketing software system supports real time, automatic execution and fulfillment of personal and contextual marketing activities across platforms and customer touch points. By constantly tracking customers behaviour, preferences and response to offers; automating dynamic execution of marketing activities in response to these parameters; and allowing event-based, contextual dialogue with customers; the Pontis MDP has been proven to deliver Mobile, TV and fix line service providers double digit improvements in ARPU, service adoption and customer retention, while improving customer experience.

Slack Technologies

Seed Round in 2009
Slack Technologies is a cloud-based business communication and collaboration platform for teams. The service combines messaging, file sharing, voice and video calls, a workflow builder, and extensive app integrations to unify people, tools, and data in a single interface. Sold as software as a service, Slack aims to improve workplace efficiency and information flow across industries worldwide. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, originally under the name Tiny Speck before rebranding to Slack. Slack serves organizations of various sizes, providing a scalable platform that streamlines communication and collaboration across departments.

Telepo

Venture Round in 2008
Telepo is a Swedish company based in Stockholm, founded in 2003, that specializes in enterprise mobility and converged communication solutions for businesses and service providers. It offers a range of business communication services, including single number reach, presence, personal call routing, unified messaging, and integration with third-party applications. Telepo's solutions integrate mobile, fixed, and IP-based communications networks, providing features such as over-the-air deployment, configuration, and remote diagnostics of devices and services. The company also offers professional services like technical pre-studies, customization, training, consulting, project management, and implementation. Additionally, Telepo provides cloud communications software, including unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) and fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) platforms to service providers, mobile operators, and carriers across Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Xoopit

Series A in 2008
Xoopit is a developer of innovative email organizational tools designed to enhance user experience in managing and retrieving content from archived emails. By employing a unique indexing architecture akin to a web search engine, Xoopit enables users to efficiently search for meaningful information within their emails. The platform offers features such as comprehensive email content search, the ability to incorporate web links and maps into emails, and a detailed overview of all senders in a conversation, including profile pictures, recent interactions, and shared media. With its focus on personal indexing and search capabilities, Xoopit aims to streamline the way users browse and share files, photos, and videos within everyday applications like webmail.

migme

Series B in 2008
Migme Limited is a global digital media company that operates a fan-based social entertainment platform called migme. The platform offers chat, content, and microblogging services, allowing users to post bite-sized blogs, send messages, and exchange virtual gifts. Revenue is generated through gifts, games, avatar items, emoticons, and stickers. Founded in 2005, the company is listed and registered in Australia, with its headquarters located in Singapore.

migme

Series A in 2007
Migme Limited is a global digital media company that operates a fan-based social entertainment platform called migme. The platform offers chat, content, and microblogging services, allowing users to post bite-sized blogs, send messages, and exchange virtual gifts. Revenue is generated through gifts, games, avatar items, emoticons, and stickers. Founded in 2005, the company is listed and registered in Australia, with its headquarters located in Singapore.

Comeks

Series A in 2007
Comeks is a fun company creating non-voice mobile phone products. It has two products which both revolve around messaging on your phone. Strips lets you make your own comic strips and share them with friends. Shorts let's you create animated avatars which appear to be speaking your text messages to your friends.

Lango

Series A in 2007
Lango, an Israel-based developer of an icon-based language for Web and mobile messaging.

Pontis

Series B in 2007
Pontis operates through its primary product, the Marketing Delivery Platform (MDP) for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). This marketing software system supports real time, automatic execution and fulfillment of personal and contextual marketing activities across platforms and customer touch points. By constantly tracking customers behaviour, preferences and response to offers; automating dynamic execution of marketing activities in response to these parameters; and allowing event-based, contextual dialogue with customers; the Pontis MDP has been proven to deliver Mobile, TV and fix line service providers double digit improvements in ARPU, service adoption and customer retention, while improving customer experience.

Telepo

Series A in 2006
Telepo is a Swedish company based in Stockholm, founded in 2003, that specializes in enterprise mobility and converged communication solutions for businesses and service providers. It offers a range of business communication services, including single number reach, presence, personal call routing, unified messaging, and integration with third-party applications. Telepo's solutions integrate mobile, fixed, and IP-based communications networks, providing features such as over-the-air deployment, configuration, and remote diagnostics of devices and services. The company also offers professional services like technical pre-studies, customization, training, consulting, project management, and implementation. Additionally, Telepo provides cloud communications software, including unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) and fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) platforms to service providers, mobile operators, and carriers across Europe, Asia, and Africa.

WeeWorld

Series B in 2006
WeeWorld is a social game and virtual world for teens with a mainstream appeal, reaching a global audience of more than 29M registered WeeMees. WeeWorld's goal is to provide a fun, visual environment that encourages self-expression and creativity. Garnering more than 2M unique users each month on its destination site, www.weeworld.com, WeeWorld's growth has been driven by organic, word-of-mouth traffic (90 percent), as well as through strategic partnerships (10 percent) with AOL, Microsoft, Skype and a host of API partner sites such as USA Networks. WeeWorld is a free, trusted site for dynamic self-expression, creation and communication. Through a palette of features, clothes, accessories, hobbies, etc., WeeWorld users can create their personalized WeeMee avatar, connect with friends, decorate their own visual space, send animated messages, play games and more. Thanks to WeeWorld's open platform, WeeMees are portable to all major social networks and blogging sites, in addition to instant messaging platforms, e-mail signatures and mobile phones.

Brightmail

Series C in 2000
Brightmail was an e-mail filtering company in the United States. The company specialized in anti-spam products designed to protect email networks of businesses, government agencies, and service providers, by blocking unsolicited bulk email. The company was [acquired](http://www.symantec.com/press/2004/n040519.html) by [Symantec](/organization/symantec) on May 9, 2004.

Teloquent Communications

Venture Round in 2000
Teloquent Communications is a provider of virtual call center solutions, specializing in web and traditional telephone-based customer interactions. Founded in June 1989 and based in Billerica, Massachusetts, the company offers integrated solutions that encompass voice, data, video, and web inquiries. Teloquent Communications develops software designed for various communication channels, enabling businesses to enhance their customer service capabilities through effective call center networking and virtual office solutions. In December 2003, the company was acquired by Syntellect.

2nd Century

Venture Round in 2000
2nd Century Communications is an open network application service provider that specializes in developing business communication software tailored to meet the needs of small and medium businesses. The company's solutions leverage advanced internet technologies to provide a unified communications and desktop computing environment, empowering clients to enhance their operational efficiency and competitiveness. By focusing on delivering versatile and accessible communication tools, 2nd Century aims to facilitate business growth in an increasingly challenging market landscape.
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