Messageme.com
To provide an emotionally engaging communication experience that's fun, lightweight and ubiquitous.
Messaging revolves around a simple loop: users send messages and respond to messages. Social gaming showed that there are ways to tweak the experience around this loop to increase its performance drastically by influencing the emotions surrounding reciprocal interactions. We believe there is a large opportunity to provide a new level of engagement and excitement in messaging apps by applying these techniques and philosophies.
To provide an emotionally engaging communication experience that's fun, lightweight and ubiquitous.
Messaging revolves around a simple loop: users send messages and respond to messages. Social gaming showed that there are ways to tweak the experience around this loop to increase its performance drastically by influencing the emotions surrounding reciprocal interactions. We believe there is a large opportunity to provide a new level of engagement and excitement in messaging apps by applying these techniques and philosophies.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $11.9M
Founded date: 2012
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Resolute V... | resolute.v... |
| - | Ali Capita... | alicapital... |
| - | GV | gv.com |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 17.05.2013 | Series A | $10M | - |
| 19.03.2013 | - | $1.9M | - |
Mentions in press and media 28
| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.03.2024 | VC Arjun Sethi talks a big game about selling his company-picking strategies to other investors; he says they’re buying it | Arjun Sethi speaks with the confidence of someone who knows more than other people, or at least knows that sounding highly confident can shape perception. Either way, when he tells me over Zoom that “in five years, I’ll have 50% of the worl... |
| 03.10.2014 | Yahoo Acquires Mobile Messaging App MessageMe | Yahoo has acquired mobile messaging application MessageMe, a Whatsapp-like service with $11.9 million in reported outside funding. The deal, we’re hearing from multiple sources, is a talent acquisition falling into the “single-digit” millio... |
| 03.10.2014 | Snapchat Wanted MessageMe Before Yahoo Bought It For Up To $30-$40M | Earlier today we reported that messaging app MessageMe was getting acquired by Yahoo — which MessageMe has now confirmed on its site, along with the inevitable news that the app is shutting down, effective November 7. Now we’ve also learned... |
| 29.09.2013 | Generation Touch Will Redraw Consumer Tech | Contributor Contributor More posts by this contributor The dinner that destroyed Gawker Author Ryan Holiday on “the nature of world-altering success” Editor’s note: Josh Elman is a partner at Greylock Partners. Follow him on Twitter @joshel... |
| 08.08.2013 | MessageMe Introduces Stickers To Keep Pace With Competition | Carrying the weight of expectation attached to securing $11.9 million funding in its first few months of operation, MessageMe has switched on the ability to send and receive stickers — an increasingly popular medium which has sparked a mult... |
| 23.05.2013 | Messaging app Imo.im chats its way into $13M, updates iOS & Android apps | 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! Multi-platform messaging service Imo.im has raise... |
| 21.05.2013 | MessageMe Grabs $10M | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Custom messaging application raised $10 million in a deal led by Greylock Partners. >> Click here for more funding data on MessageMe >> To export MessageMe funding data to PDF and Excel, click here Mess... |
| 21.05.2013 | With A Media-Rich Platform To Stand Out From The Messaging Pack, MessageMe Hits 5M Users In 2.5 Months [Interview] | Last week we reported that MessageMe, one of the latest messaging apps to hit the smartphone market, had picked up a $10 million Series A round of funding, and today, the company is officially confirming the news, along with some more detai... |
| 21.05.2013 | Just 75 days after launch, MessageMe says it now has 5 million users | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. While messaging app MessageMe just raised $10 million in funding, that announcement was missing key info about the app’s growth. Now th... |
| 17.05.2013 | Funding Daily: Communication is key | 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! Readers, I think we need to talk. Communication i... |
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