Prior to Ring, Siminoff founded PhoneTag, the world's first voicemail-to-text company and Unsubscribe.com.com
Meyer says Ariadne's existing portfolio – which includes troubled speech-to-text company SpinVox – may benefit from the fund.
Whatley's job was to interact openly with the public and the industry about the voicemail-to-text company, both on the company blog and on Twitter.
And today it takes a step further with integration with the Spinvox API, the voice-to-text company which has been taken on by a number of global mobile networks.
An expert in natural language search and speech recognition, he had previously founded a speech-to-text company called NovoSpeach (no relation to the service as it stands today).
"Republicans were much slower to join the bandwagon," said Thomas Peters, the founder of RumbleUp, a new peer-to-peer texting company who had their first live client in January of this year.
And the texting companies are constantly updating their platform to try to push users against spam-like behavior.
Peer-to-peer texting companies have created online platforms and smartphone apps that auto-fill the phone numbers and the text message the campaign wants sent, allowing a single volunteer to send several hundred or thousands of text messages to targeted voters every hour.
Some of the legal ambiguities prompted a group of peer-to-peer texting companies to recently form the "P2P Alliance" and petitioned the FCC this past spring to "clarify that P2P text messaging is not subject to the restrictions on calls to mobile phone numbers".
Cortex Intelligence Cortex began as a text mining company, and spent the last five years perfecting its ability to automatically identify places, entities, companies, and other important pieces of text, making it easy to sift through large volumes of data.
To the north of its campus, the university also runs an office park, leasing space to, among others, BlackBerry, Cisco, AGFA, Sybase and Open Text, another company that emerged from its classrooms and labs.
