« Russian Casual Games Maker Hot Lava Bought | Main | Rotterdams' Adjustables Makes Splash At Ad:Tech »
August 01, 2007
Spain's Berggi Gains More Funding For Mobile Email On Lame Phones
Berggi, which develops mobile messaging services for cell phones, says that it has raised $9M in funding from from Avanzit, along with current investor Adara Ventures. Avanzit is a telecommunications company located in Spain. According to Berggi, $8M of the funding came from Avanzit, with the remainder from Adara. Berggi is based in Houston because its CEO is at Rice University there, but its Chairman and investors are Spanish.
With Berggi you can download their app and then get email over most any crummy cell phone. It will charge you $10 per month for this. So you don't have to shell out to buy a Blackberry or iPhone.
Berggi's chief competitor is VC-backed Flurry which also offers a direct-to-consumer mobile messaging service, but its mobile email service is free. Berggi says they will white label their service through well-known brands we are guessing that they will start in Europe.
Another odd aspect of Berggi is that it is specifically targeting women. Not sure why.
View - site
Posted on August 1, 2007 07:02 PM | Posted to Wireless | Permalink
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/5578
