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Website4info.com
CategoryAdvertising
Employees50
Founded2005
DescriptionSMS Advertising

Offices

San Mateo, USA
177 Bovet Road 4th floor
San Mateo, CA, 94402
USA

People

CEO and co-founder
VP of Publishing
VP of Strategy and Operations
SVP of Business Development
VP of Product
Board Member
VP of Sales, East
Director

Former People

Founding Engineer
Chief Architect

Funding

Competitors

Tags

advertising, sms

4INFO

4INFO is a provider of free consumer text message search and alert services. 4INFO delivers millions of real-time SMS answers and entertainment messages – both as a response to a search query, or as a real time alert on subjects ranging from sports scores and weather updates to stock quotes and celebrity gossip. 4INFO’s services work on any cell phone and are free of charge.

The 4INFO SMS Ad Network offers businesses targeted advertising programs through SMS ad serving technology. Companies also partner with 4INFO to publish free ad-supported SMS content.

Milestones

  • Dollar
    4INFO received $20M in Unattributed funding. (1/22/09)
    Posted 1/22/09 at 1:34pm
  • Dollar
    4INFO received in Series E funding. (10/1/07)
    Posted 10/31/07 at 4:05am
  • Dollar
    4INFO received $10M in Series D funding. (6/1/07)
    Posted 8/30/07 at 11:31am
  • Dollar
    4INFO received $8M in Series C funding. (3/1/05)
    Posted 8/30/07 at 11:34am
  • Check
    4INFO added Mike Stachowiak as Founding Engineer. (8/04)
    Posted 11/24/09 at 11:48am
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    4INFO added Markus A. Nordvik as VP of Strategy and Operations.
    Posted 10/31/07 at 3:37am
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    4INFO added Patricia Clark as VP of Sales, East.
    Posted 11/25/08 at 11:28am
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    4INFO added Richard Qiu as SVP of Business Development.
    Posted 10/31/07 at 3:36am
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    4INFO added Zaw Thet as CEO and co-founder.
    Posted 10/31/07 at 3:35am
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    4INFO added Dennis Yang as VP of Publishing.
    Posted 11/25/08 at 11:28am
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    4INFO added Ellen Siminoff as Board Member.
    Posted 2/11/09 at 10:52pm
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    4INFO added Paul Lee as Director.
    Posted 4/29/09 at 1:40pm
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    4INFO added Ted C. Burns as VP of Product.
    Posted 10/31/07 at 3:36am

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4INFO screenshot
Above: 4INFO Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 5/12/09

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Sources

  1. techcrunch.com [edit]
  2. venturebeat.com [edit]
  3. techcrunch.com [edit]
  4. 4INFO Raises $20 Million For Ad-Supported Texting Campaigns (moconews.net) [edit]
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