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Heysan

Free messaging on mobile phones

Acquired

About

Heysan was a free mobile messaging and community based in San Francisco, California.

Initially Heysan provided free messaging between phones and computers, bridging IM with SMS. The service expanded into launching a mobile community and has over 1 million users doing tens of million of monthly messages. In the summer of 2007 Heysan raised a seed round from Khosla Ventures and Atomico, the venture funds of Vinod Khosla and Niklas Zennstrom.

Heysan was acquired by Good Technology in May 2009.

Topics

CommunityMessagingConsumerSocial
Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
YC batch
Winter 2007
Status
Acquired
Stage
Early stage

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Questions and answers

What does Heysan do?

Free messaging on mobile phones

Where is Heysan based?

San Francisco, CA, United States

Has Heysan raised money?

There are no funding rounds for Heysan in our data.

What are the alternatives to Heysan?

Similar startups: OneSignal, Chatfuel, and Boostly.