Online voice messaging service Snapvine has raised a $10 million round led by Bridgescale Partners, a new Silicon Valley firm. This is on top of a $2 million round they raised back in last year from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, First Round Capital, and Russell Siegelman.
Snapvine makes a widget that lets you leave voice comments for friends and is one of the many competing online voicemail widgets. The service has also been used to connect celebrities and fans, similar to SayNow, which closed a $7.5 million series A at the end of August. There are many other voice messaging services out there that offer more utility, including Jangl and Jaxtr, which offer cheaper anonymous phone calls on top of voice messaging. Jangl has recently gotten access to millions of users as a widget on Tagged’s homepages and Jaxtr has over a million registered users. Snapvine reports that their application has been installed on five million user profiles across the various social networking sites.
Hi Nick!
Thanks for the mention of Snapvine in your blog!
Just wanted to tell you we launched a bunch of new features that includes voice blogs and voice shout outs (one-to-many voice comments), and if you have some time, go check it out!
-Ranee
Voice blogs…interesting
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com/
The one to many feature is good ( Very Cool )
for Audio Blog : This one is good too
http://www.audioblogger.com
Couple of them in the same arena,
http://wildvoice.com/
http://evoca.com/
Congrats on the investment.
“Snapvine makes a widget that lets you leave is one of the many services competing in online voicemail widgets.”
Does this sentence make sense to anyone?
Me can too make is sentance although competing with what you said. Huh?
Jeesus… I wonder what happens first- oil gets to $100 and this microbubble bursts, or they get to round E, and only then it bursts…
This is a small tool, it’s not a destination site, it’s not a big thing- and somebody is smart enough to push 13M total into this…
The middle of that sentence got cut out.
I’m using Snipevine to help promote my book; wish me luck!
another similar service is getabuz (www.getabuz.com). it includes music in your message as well. seems like the whole idea is getting pretty popular ….