Jangl

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Jangl
Type Private
Founded 2005
Headquarters California
Key people Michael Cerda, CEO
Ben Dean CEO
Industry Communications
Website www.jangl.com

Jangl offers its customers the ability to talk and text safely with anonymity. This includes online dating sites, social networking sites, classified ad sites, auction sites, blogs, or any other place where there is an online communication happening. They have teamed up with Facebook, Bebo, Match.com, Friendster, AdultFriendFinder, Tagged, PlentyOfFish and Fubar to market and provide applications enabling text messaging, voice, and voicemail for members of those communities. [1] They have raised a total of $9 million in two rounds of funding. [2] Callers go to the Jangl website and key in the person they want to reach Jangl ID. To be accepted, callers have to provide enough personal information so that the system can connect them with that caller. [3] The call then goes through to your number, or they can record a voice mail. The user doesn’t need to have a Jangl account to use this service. They can also enter the email address of the person they want to contact and leave a voice mail for that person to call them back.

[edit] Statistics

Jangl is in around 150 countries. [4] It also is available in over 80 million online profiles. [5]

[edit] Awards

Supernova 2007 Connected Innovator[6]
2007 Red Herring 100 Noth America winner[7]
AlwaysOn 100 nominee[8]

[edit] References

  1. ^ ‘‘Jangl Partners With Plenty Of Fish To Connect Daters’’ at Voip Monitor. Retrieved on January 31, 2008.
  2. ^ ‘‘Jangl Uses VOIP For Anonymous Phone Numbers’’ at TechCrunch. Retrieved on November 14, 2006.
  3. ^ ‘‘Jangl Gives Callers Privacy’’ at USA Today. Retrieved on November 27, 2006.
  4. ^ ‘‘Jangl Names Tagged Netvibes As Latest Strategic Partners’’ at BlogNation USA. Retrieved on September 20, 2007.
  5. ^ ‘‘Jangl ’’ at CrunchBase. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
  6. ^ ‘‘Connected Innovators’’ at Supernova. Retrieved on February 10, 2008.
  7. ^ ‘‘The AO 100 - Open for Nominations’’ at Always On. Retrieved on February 10, 2008.
  8. ^ ‘‘Red Herring’s 100 Winners’’ at Red Herring. Retrieved on February 10, 2008.