Thursday, March 6, 2014

Speek Raises $5.1 Million Series A Funding To Change Old-Fashioned Conference Calling Solutions

Speek, a conference calling and voice solution startup, which initially providing online tools which enable user to switch or jump on different calls without worrying about, what device you have on your hand? Than do additional activity on calls once connected. Last week company announces $5.1 million Series A investment. The investment comes from 500 Startups, Edward Norton, CNF investments, Middleland Capital, and others. The other members in round are Michael Chasen, Timothy Chi and Sonny Ganguly, Jeffery and Robert Wolf and others and Alexander Pessala from Middleland will be joining the board. Speek was founded in 2012 by John Bracken, co-founder of Evite and co-founder C T O Danny Boice based in Washington D.C and were knew the pain to dealing with Conference calling.
Danny Boice had said in a interviewSpeek updates the old system by, first, making it easier to join a call. Every Speek users gets their own personal link – for example, Boice has speek.com/danny. These can be distributed to others instead of a dial-in, and callers can choose to join the conference in a number of ways, depending on what’s easier for them. They connect using VoIP from their web browser, enter in their own phone number to have the service ring them, or, if on mobile, they can basically just hit a button to join the call from the Speek app.”
Speek is offering a Freemium solution, with $10 per month a user and recently launched new service called “Speek For Teams” on number of user can communicate together. Generally this solution works well for companies with 10 to 100 employees. With this funding, they’re planning to add more feature to the “Speek for Teams” and other services. Features like Security Controls, Collaboration editing a Document, tools to share Slideshows.

here is the Google Hangout with Founder

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