alarm:clock

Voice - Friday, August 3, 2007

Automated Receptionist's IfByPhone Raises A First Round

ifbyphone.png
Chicago startup Ifbyphone, which sells VoIP-based infrastructure to small and medium businesses, has landed $2.75M in series A funding. The funding round was jointly led by Origin Ventures and Apex Venture
Partners. IfByPhone charges $14.95 per month for its small biz package that provides the automated voice receptionist that is associated with big companies. Its ironic that the lousy voice service that consumers hate about big co's is now an object of desire for small companies that want to emulate them.

Read - announcement

Post a comment




Remember Me?


More Recent Articles

ThumbCisco To Pay $120M For Seattle Home Networking Startup Pure Networks

Thursday July 24, 2008

Cisco Systems is going to pay about $120M to acquire Seattle's Pure Networks which focuses on home networking-management software and tools. Pure may not have much in the way of revenues but the functionality seems like it could pay off for Cisco. P... Full Story

ThumbSocial Games' Zynga Buys YoVille; Raises $29M

Thursday July 24, 2008

Last year we started to see some social games mini-events that were amateurish but well attended. It was a good omen for what was to come. Today San Francisco-based Zynga announced that it had raised $29M and had bought YoVille. The round was led by... Full Story

Listen to alarm:clock

alarm:clock © 2004-2008

Swift Internet