"This is similar to what I've heard," said a another Nigerian startup head who asked not to be named, but whose company is also backed by one of Interswitch's investors.
"In order to distill the form to only the essentials, we were challenged to redesign every component," said CEO and founder Taras Kravtchouk an industrial design specialist, former startup head, and passionate motorcyclist.
Titan, the city's main payphone operator, is part of the CityBridge consortium that is deploying LinkNYC; other investors include Control Group, Qualcomm, CIVIQ Smartscapes and Sidewalk Labs – a Google-backed startup headed by a former deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff.
The startup head-faked the tech industry, opting to accept a last-minute acquisition in the face of a looming IPO.
Started Harvard at 15, left for a Thiel Fellowship, now heads business development at Scopely, a mobile gaming startup headed by former adsense cofounder Eytan Elbaz.
The startup, headed by CEO David Kaplan, is bootstrapped and backed by private individuals.
"Gore is picking up speed, like a startup heading for a successful IPO [initial public offering]," says Tim Newell, managing director of corporate finance at E*Offering in San Francisco, one of several dot-com executives on hand to support Gore.
The last round of funding valued SpinVox at $500 million and there were rumors of the startup heading for an IPO.
Amusing enough, today is the same day that sees the public launch of Keas, a VC-funded startup headed by former Google Health head Adam Bosworth.
"That's the exact opposite of unified messaging," which puts similar control into receivers' hands, says Page. MessageMachines, a Boston-based startup headed by Lotus Development veteran Christopher Herot, plans in October to release the beta version of messaging software that allows recipients to choose which message they want to receive and where and when they receive them.
But today a San Antonio startup headed by veteran journalist Edward Schumacher Edward Schumacher challenged the big media conglomerates by launching Rumbo, the first in what Schumacher hopes will soon be a string of dailies designed to fill a gap in the Spanish-language market.
