Teleflip gets $4.9M to forward your emails as text messages
Teleflip, a Santa Monica, Calif., startup that offers to deliver email to your phone as text messages, raised $4.9 million in a recent financing. GRP II, a fund affiliated with the private-equity firm GRP Management Services, provided the funding.
The company’s Flipmail service automatically redirects email from pre-approved senders to your cellphone as text messages. The service is free, but requires you to hand over your email password and, thus, access to your inbox, to the… Continue Reading