Voice messaging startup Bubble Motion confirms $6M in funding
Bubble Motion, a company that allows users to send voicemails as if they were SMS text messages, announced today that it has raised $6 million in a third round of funding. Based on a regulatory filing, we first covered the Mountain View, Calif. company’s funding in June, but now Bubble Motion has confirmed the news and identified the new investor, Palomar Ventures, which led the round.
Here’s the company’s concept: If you want to send your… Continue Reading
Bubble Motion raises $6M for mobile voice messaging
Bubble Motion, provider of a service that lets users send voice messages directly to others’ mobile phones like text messages, has raised $6 million in equity from undisclosed investors, according to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Based in Mountain View, Calif., the company brought in $14 million in March 2008 from Comcast Interactive Capital, NCD Investors and Sequoia Capital — the last of which provided $10 million in 2007.
Bubble Motion gets $14M more for voice texting
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Bubble Motion, a Silicon Valley company that gives you a way to send text messages (SMS) with your voice instead of text, has raised $14 million in additional funding.
It came from existing investor Sequoia Capital, and new investors Comcast Interactive Capital and NCD Investors.
The company says in a statement that it has more than 135 million users worldwide, which we haven’t confirmed, but it sounds inflated. (Could the company really mean the technology is enabled… Continue Reading
Bubble Motion, trying to bring voice SMS to U.S.
Bubble Motion is a texting (SMS) service that eliminates the need to type out message on that tiny keypad, and lets you leave voice message instead.
Many of us are texting, but we aren’t leaving voice messages via SMS — because carriers aren’t letting us.
Bubble Motion, of Singapore, wants to change that, and is negotiating with U.S carriers to provide the service here. Leaving a voice message is convenient. There are many times I’m feeling… Continue Reading