Comments on: Webaroo Raises A $10 Million Round For SMSGupShup

By: aaadvsd

aaadvsd — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:08:36 +0000

It means chatting in hindi which is the nationla language of India

By: Saurabh Sahni » Webaroo raises $10 million in another round of funding

Saurabh Sahni » Webaroo raises $10 million in another round of funding — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:59:05 +0000

[...] has raised $10 million in a recent round of funding for its product SMSGupshup. Webaroo was founded by IIT Bombay alumnus [...]

By: You SEO partner

You SEO partner — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:56:52 +0000

Sweet I love getting text messages, I’ll be getting this service asap.

By: Rajiv Dingra

Rajiv Dingra — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:28:34 +0000

Hey HelionVC has denied making the investment check this -> http://www.watblog.com/2008/07.....the-issue/

By: Rahul

Rahul — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:57:19 +0000

So its still not clear whether they have been funded or not. There are other newer services in India which are similar and faster. One of them is http://www.tagg.in

By: Sem

Sem — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:34:41 +0000

in reply to #12:
I have my blog on gupshup, Ads are piggybacked on the posted sms only if content length of sms <= 140 characters.
Make sense, doesn’t it ?
I heard they are gonna internationalized it now.

By: Raj

Raj — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:14:47 +0000

Charles River and Helion get ready to loose your shirt on this investment. Lot of companies have tried this before and there’s not enough money to be made. Just my personal $0.002

By: » SMSGupshup / Webaroo Raises Rs 40 Crore Funding

» SMSGupshup / Webaroo Raises Rs 40 Crore Funding — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:53:08 +0000

[...] var ipad_color=”{color}”; Indian websites seem to be making a lot of waves. After mKhoj SMSGupshup just got a Rs 40 Crore Funding. They sure needed that money for the servers and for the free sms messages. The fundingwill go a [...]

By: Saurabh KJ

Saurabh KJ — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:14:50 +0000

#14 - its not rs 3 per SMS. its rs .05-.07.

but thats $6.57 million on sms only every year accroding to http://www.medianama.com/2008/.....n-funding/

By: John

John — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:20:28 +0000

#12 explains exactly why Twitter will be a total bomb.

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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:07:42 +0000

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By: Quick update on SMSGupShup | Thought Stream: Nitin Badjatia's Weblog

Quick update on SMSGupShup | Thought Stream: Nitin Badjatia's Weblog — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:43:10 +0000

[...] Webaroo Raises A $10 Million Round For SMSGupShup webarooWebaroo Technology has raised a $10 million round of funding for their product SMSGupShup, an SMS-based community site in India, according to Plugged.in. The round, the third for the company, was co-led by Helion Venture Partners and Charles River Ventures. Filed under: Mobile Blogging, SMS GupShup, TechCrunch by Nitin Badjatia @ 4:43 pm | July 6, 2008 | | Top [...]

By: techblogger

techblogger — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:36:23 +0000

any one who loves gupshup must try indyarocks also.Pretty neat and useful

By: sandeep

sandeep — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:39:12 +0000

its pretty neat…

By: Amit Aggarwal

Amit Aggarwal — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:12:16 +0000

It’s not 3 Rs .. checkout

http://www.medianama.com/2008/.....n-funding/

for details on cost per SMS etc

By: Joe T

Joe T — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:36:24 +0000

Webaroo to be the official SMS for Bonnaroo?

By: Gandolf Hübinger

Gandolf Hübinger — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:56:52 +0000

3 rupees per bulk sms equals aproximately 5 euro cent (current price for european carriers 6 to 7 cents). does anybody have an idea how much they make with the advertisement per sms?

By: Amit Aggarwal

Amit Aggarwal — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:53:49 +0000

Any such service in any other country??

By: gregory

gregory — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:19:16 +0000

ads with sms’s? no thanks gupshup

By: 42

42 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:47:29 +0000

From an offline web-cache/search engine to a Twitter clone !! Quite a change in “focus” Any body figure a connection between the two ?
That is the sad part of venture capital. People who have been successful in the past will still end up raising money, no matter how pathetic the ideas may be or how the company changes focus as in this case…..I wont be surprised to see yet another random application being spun off from this company, and ahh the VCs would always be there to invest…..

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:01:57 +0000

Nice..looks cool. I wonder if they will have it available in the USA?

By: SF

SF — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:15:34 +0000

Its about 3 Rupees per sms, charged by the carrier. http://www.mouthshut.com has a similar service, focused on reviews.

By: SMSGupShup Gets $10 Million Funding

SMSGupShup Gets $10 Million Funding — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:38:56 +0000

[...] seems that people were listening, with TechCrunch reporting that Webaroo Technology, the company behind SMSGupShup has raised $10 million in a third round of [...]

By: Harish

Harish — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:52:00 +0000

How much does it cost to send SMS from web to cell phone.
Is it free or does the carrier charge a bulk SMS fee.
Anybody has any idea about the cost?

By: Mizzle

Mizzle — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:23:01 +0000

Calley - you are going to make a great Techcrunch employee - you’ve managed to not link to the company once, but plenty of times to Crunchbase - Mike will love that. Bonus points for linking to Venturebeat. Nicely done.