Jangl, the Silicon Valley (Pleasanton) company that lets you conveniently dump your date by issuing you a disposable phone number, has raised $7 million more in venture capital.
The round, completed Friday, was led by Silicon Valley firm Cardinal Venture Capital, and included Storm Ventures and Labrador Ventures, the two firms that first led a $2 million round into Jangl last year.
We wrote about this Jangl several weeks ago, and explained their technology.
Alex Mendez, the venture capitalist at Storm Ventures who sits on Jangl’s board, tells us the company has now gotten its management team in place, and will unleash a more dynamic Web site in about a month (until now it has been a placeholder site, allowing you to sign up for a test version of the technology).
The company is not disclosing the number of people who have started using the service, but it began by focusing on the dating market — where a girl can flirt with you by issuing you a jangl number you can call or message, but which she can then dispose of when she is done with you ;-)
The company will soon go after other niches where Jangl’s technology — which provides both anonymity and privacy — can come into use, such as classified advertising, auctioning and other “social environments,” Mendez said.
We wonder if a new term “Jangl” will enter our vocabulary, i.e., “to dump someone.” Or Jangl’ed, “to be dumped”? Om Malik has more here.
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Search Engine WEB said:
Another good use for this is businesses which may want to measure reponses from various advertising media campaigns.
Imagine using Adwords or Overture, and putting different phone numbers on each landing page to determine - not click thrus - BUT WHO WAS PROMPTED TO CALL IN their ORDER!!!!!
This could also be expanded to radio commercials or newspaper ads etc…
It offers a quick way to access what is bringing in the most business - without having to order many new lines from the phone company
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eric said:
This service is already provided by Voicestar
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sandy said:
thanks for this, matt. i’ve been following these guys for a bit. and in fact, i just got done listening to the ceo talk on computeramerica.com’s show (yes, i’m a geek).
man, can this guy explain this stuff. it’s almost like when they called reagan the great communicator. it was a great show, too bad it played in such a small venue.
my sense is that this is gonna get to be a very noisy space, real soon, but jangl sounds like it has its head on straight.
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jingle said:
Great company. I am glad that I am not an investor in Storm’s fund. Good God. This one is about as good as Justballs.com, a Jafco disaster.
There have to be better ideas to fund.
stupid
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sam80 said:
hey stupid, maybe these VCs know something you don’t?
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