Monday, March 7, 2011

GOGII Nabs $ 15 million to win social messages

GOGII textPlus, manufacturer of social app messages, is launching a $ 15 million Series c round led by GRP partners this morning. GRP will join existing investors matrix partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

textPlus is an arena super crowded, with costumizaĆ§Ć£o, quick apps GroupMe society, FreeText and Facebook now even getting into group messaging space. textPlus has the advantage of being implemented, at least in SMS free space, having launched in June 2009.

Founder and former Executive of Activision Scott Lahman tells us that what differentiates the free app is its focus on social profiles, as well as his painting a huge blow in every industry competitive. Says Lahman, "we have been it for awhile and we do is take on a wider screen. So we can compete with the guys of Group text messages, we can compete with the guys of free text messages. "

With textPlus you can join the topic-driven chat community groups (discuss anything from Lady Gaga Soccer) and group conversations and good old SMS from person to person. The application also has photo sharing, profile customization features and research.

Now textPlus sends approximately 32 million messages per day, total more than 7 billion messages since launch. And the app definitely has the scale: with over 14 million downloads of iPhone and Android platforms and 7.7 million monthly active users. And Lahman is just observing and right here, "there are so many places, Group text messages could go and we started badly.

You can find that textPlus app on the iPhone, iPad and Android and the service also works on any device that carries SMS messages.

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