SkyDeck, the site that uses your mobile phone bills to help you manage and analyze your relationships with your peers, has closed a $3 million Series A funding round led by Saban Ventures. The round brings SkyDeck’s total funding to $4 million, as it had previously raised $1 million in angel funding.
SkyDeck originally launched its private beta in March with a basic set of features that allowed users to automatically pair contacts from their address books to calls in their phone records (we likened it to a Xobni for cell phones). In June the site expanded its social features, giving users the ability to connect with their friends (they can also see how relationships are skewed based on who is calling whom). The site is now available in a public beta, which you can join here.
Beyond social networking and bill management, SkyDeck also offers a powerful API with a large number of practical applications. Included in the list of apps that are possible (though still hypothetical) are comprehensive lists of communication you’ve had with your peers, including Email, text messaging and voice – something that would be a boon for businesses that have to manage a large number of clients.
As part of the deal Saban’s Craig Cooper will join SkyDeck’s Board of Directors. Cooper is notable in the mobile phone industry for co-founding Boost Mobile and EBT Mobile China.
Decent. Nice idea. Good for them.
No doubt, teens will be analyzing the info on their bill along with the parents to see who called their b/fs or g/fs and how many times… etc.
That’s one of the most pointless ideas I’ve heard in a long time.
Sounds like a good idea to me. Can I set it up to also tellme how much ofmy bill was spent on work-related calls and generate a report for me to expense?
It’s a very useful concept I think. Sure it may suck harder than Michael Jackson in a candy store full of 3 year olds, but good on them anyway.
How many start-ups do you own again “do not want”?
yes keep your rah-rah to every idea on.
devitt is a rockstar
can we please wait until skydeck succeeds before we call devitt a rockstar?
I don’t know if I’d feel like using the social features all the time. I wouldn’t want another site, or in this case another network, to manage. If I were to use it, I’d find it interesting at first and then probably drop off. Now, if there were say mobile apps for something like the iPhone that can help me out when there’s nothing to do, then I could see some promise. Hopefully, then I can send out some last minute birthday wishes or activity reminders.
JP
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Congrats Skydeck team – interesting to see how this space unfolds
Very interesting) Thanks to author for this post)
How can this help cell phone users save money on their bill?
A good idea, I installed it long time back, but used it only a few times… the beauty of social networking services is that there will be people who would like this and use it on a daily basis.
Is this a competitor or complimentary to Redwood Technologies (http://tynted.com/0LWdTrXj30V)? I know the folks over at Redwood, they are more business focused and SkyDeck seems more consumer. Is that true?
I wish someone could combine three websites for me: mint.com, pageonce.com and this one, skydeck. One dashboard for everything.