GOGII Raises $8.2 Million Series B For Free iPhone Texting
GOGII , the company behind the popular iPhone applicaiton textPlus , announced today that they have raised an $8.2 million Series B led by Matrix Partners , with existing investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers also participating in the round. GOGII was one of the first companies to get funded by the iFund initiative, which is a venture capital partnership between Apple and Kleiner Perkins. Matrix Partners General Partner Dana Stalder is taking a board seat with this round of funding. Stalder is the former Chief Technology Officer & SVP of Product & Marketing of PayPal. Since launching the textPlus in June 2009, GOGII has become a crowd favorite in the iPhone community, making texting messaging free to anywhere in the world, using a textPlus username. According to GOGII, the textPlus app has been downloaded almost 3 million times, reaching over 9 million people, with over 300 million messages sent using the service since June. CrunchBase Information GOGII Matrix Partners Information provided by CrunchBase Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors
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