Heysan

Y Combinator // YC W07 starting 2007-01-01


Key notes: Heysan is a mobile community and messaging service.

Office address: 301 8th Street, Suite 270, San Francisco, California, United States

Description: Heysan is a free mobile messaging and community based in San Francisco, California. The company was founded though [Y Combinator](http://www.ycombinator.com) and was incubated with Twitter its first year. Initially Heysan provided free messaging between phones and computers, bridging IM with SMS. The service expanded into launching a mobile community and has over 1 million users doing 100 million monthly pageviews. In the summer of 2007 Heysan raised a seed round from Khosla Ventures and Atomico, the venture funds of Vinod Khosla and Niklas Zennstrom. Heysan was acquired by Good Technology in May 2009.

View details on Crunchbase:

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/heysan

$ 875,000 over 2 funding rounds.

Seed-DB Exit data:

Exit value = $ 4,000,000. (Confidence = L)

Angellist Page:

https://angel.co/heysan


Funding Rounds

Date Name $ Invested Crunchbase link
2007-01-25 seed $ 20,000 Detailed data
2007-07-27 seed $ 855,000 Detailed data

Investors

Round Date Round Name Investor Crunchbase Link
2007-01-25 seed Y Combinator Investor Profile
2007-07-27 seed Atomico Investor Profile
2007-07-27 seed Khosla Ventures Investor Profile


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Created: 11-Jul-2012, 22:05

Last Crunchbase update: 26-Jun-2019, 05:06

Last modified: 03-Mar-2021, 05:06

Country: USA