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Voice - Tuesday, August 28, 2007

VoIP's Jaxtr Raises $8M A Round

Jaxtr has raised a $10M Series A round and the company now claims to have 1M users. Jaxtr is a VoIP startup that markets voice to social networks and blogs. jaxtr users can link their phones to their sites or social network page to receive calls, voice messages while keeping phones numbers private.

We imagine there will be all sorts of uses discovered for services like Jaxtr but clearly it is great for online dating. Founded in September 2005, Jaxtr comes with a fair number of features. Users can choose the phone where you receive your calls and they can block callers or specify on a per-caller basis who can ring your phone and who gets routed to voicemail.

Jaxt is led by Konstantin Guericke, who co-founded LinkedIn. Its founders are Touraj Parang and Phillip Mobin. The funding round was led by August Capital with Mayfield Fund, Draper Richards, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mangrove Capital.

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