SMSGupShup

http://www.smsgupshup.com/

Last activity: 31.08.2011

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Gupshup helps businesses Build Engaging Conversational Experiences with their customers using the Chatbot API for Marketing, Commerce & Support across multiple channels like WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Messenger and more.

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Overview

Location

United States, California, San Francisco

Employees

11-50

Total raised

$33M

Funding Rounds 3

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
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Jan 20, 2010	Funding round	$12M
Oct 7, 2008	Funding round	$11M

Mentions in press and media 17

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Aug 30, 2011	SMS GupShup raises $10M for text-message social networks	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Beerud Sheth, a serial entrepreneur in India, figured out the way to reach the most people was not through computers or smartphones. It...
Jul 8, 2011	Indian Social Network SMS GupShup Wants To Help Small Businesses Reach Mobile Users	SMS GupShup, a Twitter-like service in India that is primarily accessed via SMS, is launching a new service today for small businesses, BizShup. The new product allows small businesses to create mobile campaigns and send messages to the net...
Apr 27, 2011	Indian Social Network SMS GupShup Now Processing Over 2 Billion Messages Per Month	SMS GupShup, a Twitter-like service in India that is primarily accessed via SMS, is announcing a number of new milestones today, including that the service is processing over 2 billion messages per month (up from 480 million messages a mont...
Jan 3, 2011	Five red-hot Indian tech startups	China’s enormous internet population has been getting quite a bit of press lately, but India is undoubtedly as much of an emerging world internet power. With more than 400-million internet users China’s online success stories, like QQ and ...
Jan 3, 2011	Five red-hot Indian tech startups	China’s enormous internet population has been getting quite a bit of press lately, but India is undoubtedly as much of an emerging world internet power. With more than 400-million internet users China’s online success stories, like QQ and B...
Sep 1, 2010	As Facebook And Orkut Duke It Out In India, SMS GupShup Hits 35 Million Users	As Facebook and Google’s Orkut duke it out for traffic in India, another social network has quietly gained traction in the space. SMS GupShup, a Twitter-like service in India that is primarily accessed via SMS, has hit 35 million users (up ...
Mar 3, 2010	India's Twitter SMS GupShup Gets An App Store	Fresh off a $12 million investment, SMS GupShup, a Twitter-like service in India that is primarily accessed via SMS, is launching an App Store. The store aims to expand SMS GupShup’s ecosystem by allowing developers to create SMS-based mobi...
Jan 20, 2010	India's SMS GupShup Raises $12 Million For Twitter-Like Social Network	SMS GupShup, a Twitter-like service in India that is primarily accessed via SMS, has raised $12 million in funding led by Globespan Capital Partners with existing investors Charles River Ventures and Helion Venture Partners participating in...
Dec 15, 2009	India's "Twitter" SMS GupShup Grows To 26 Million Users, Eyes Expansion To Southeast Asia	India is a huge market for social networks, with Facebook, Orkut and even Twitter vying for a share of the growing number of web users who are increasingly flocking to social networks in their day-to-day routines. One Indian social network ...
Dec 15, 2009	India’s GupShup SMS social network crosses 26 million users	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Facebook and Twitter are surely be the most popul...
Dec 15, 2009	India’s GupShup SMS social network crosses 26 million users	Facebook and Twitter are surely be the most popular and most influential social networks on the Internet. But Indian SMS-based social network GupShup’s 26 million members proves that sites not built and hosted from the San Francisco Bay Are...
May 4, 2009	SMSGupShup (India's "Twitter") Grows To 20 million Users, $150,000/month Revenue	SMSGupShup, a Twitter-like service in India, is getting a ton of buzz over here in the U.S., too. In an interview with CEO Beerud Sheth now says the service now has 20 million users (and that’s without an appearance on Oprah), nearly all of...
Mar 30, 2009	CRV raises $320M — proves not all venture capital has dried up	Charles River Ventures, a venture capital firm that has invested in web companies like Twitter, but also software and networking companies such as BigBand Networks and Netezza, has raised $320 million in fresh money. The new fund, CRV’s 14t...
Oct 13, 2008	Webaroo nabs $11M for group text messaging	Mobile software provider Webaroo brought in $11 million in first-round financing to continue developing its top product SMS Gupshup — a group text-messaging platform that allows users to blog and form communities on their mobile phones. Con...
Oct 7, 2008	SMS GupShup Raises $11 Million From Helion, Charles River Ventures	Messaging platform SMS GupShup has raised $11 million in Series A funding from Helion Ventures and Charles River Ventures (CRV). SMS GupShup is mobile group SMS service that allows users to create mobile communities and broadcast messages t...
Jul 5, 2008	Webaroo Raises A $10 Million Round For SMSGupShup	Webaroo Technology has raised a $10 million round of funding for their product SMSGupShup, an SMS-based community site in India, according to Pluggd.in. The round, the third for the company, was co-led by Helion Venture Partners and Charles...

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FAQ about SMSGupShup

How much funding has SMSGupShup raised?

SMSGupShup has raised $33M in total across 3 funding rounds.

What funding rounds has SMSGupShup raised?

Parsers VC lists 3 funding rounds of SMSGupShup, among them a funding round of $12M on Jan 20, 2010 and a funding round of $11M on Oct 7, 2008.

What has the press written about SMSGupShup?

Parsers VC has collected 17 articles mentioning SMSGupShup, among them “SMS GupShup raises $10M for text-message social networks” (Aug 30, 2011) and “Indian Social Network SMS GupShup Wants To Help Small Businesses Reach Mobile Users” (Jul 8, 2011).

Is SMSGupShup still active?

SMSGupShup is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 31, 2011.