- Current Voxie customers include LG, Danone, Massage Heights, and Buff City Soap.
- Noro-Moseley Partners, Circadian Ventures, and Engage Ventures led this round.
- Voxie allows companies to send their messages from a normal 10-digit phone number.
In Constantin’s case, at his previous tuxedo rental startup Menguin (ultimately acquired by Generation Tux), where he said he had to market a product with a six-to-nine month sales cycle, as customers were usually weighing different options for their weddings.
Email marketing, Constantin said, would result in “worse and worse” open rates over time. So one day, he decided to just try texting everyone who signed up, introducing himself as “your stylist here at Menguin.”
Voxie Raises $6.7 Million
Voxie — which is announcing that it has raised $6.7 million in Series A funding — offers tools to help businesses automate and manage that process. As compared to other text marketing tools, messages sent via Voxie feel like a real, personalized conversation — even though 80% to 90% are automated, with the rest of the messages written by people. Voxie allows businesses to send messages from a normal 10-digit phone number.
Voxie, a text marketing startup
VoxWeb is a special-purpose messaging and social networking application developed around speaking pictures or “boxes”. In addition to mainstream online communication usage, users can augment their photos by adding a voice caption of up to 11 seconds instead of a text caption. The application was designed by IIT Kanpur graduate Yash Mishra and was rolled out on iOS and Android operating systems.
Voxie is a social app for movies and shows, that lets you track, review, journal, and talk about movies and shows you’ve watched so that your friends can have great recommendations. The first capital infusion took place in November 2015 when a group of individual investors invested $350,000 in the company
Why use the Voxie app?
- Movie Reviews: Create a short review of any movie you’ve watched and give it a rating.
- Show Reviews: Create a short review of an entire show or a specific season and give it a rating.
- Invite Friends: Invite your friends and follow them to be notified when they post new movies or shows.
- See Friends’ Reviews: See your friends’ reviews on what they watch.
- Discuss Movies & Shows: Have threaded discussions about the movies and shows you or your friend’s post.
- See Movie & Show Details: View movie and show details including overviews, budgets, revenues, and cast information.
- Create A Watchlist: Add any movie or show you’d like to watch to your watchlist.
- Track What You Watch: Track the movies and shows you’re watching.
- Next Episode Notifications: View upcoming episodes and get notified whenever shows in your watchlist are about to air.
