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Bubble Motion

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Bubble Motion is pioneering social communication for mobile phones. Bubble Motion’s Bubbly™ is a social messaging service where people share SMS and voice updates with friends, family, fans and followers. Bubbly is like ‘Twitter with a voice’ and brings social networking to mobile phones.

Bubble Motion’s innovative operator partner network includes telecom leaders in ‘mobile-first’ countries including India, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Partners include Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Tata (Docomo and Indicom), XL Axiata, Globe, Telkomsel, Indosat, DiGi, Vodafone, Turkcell, and more.

Bubble Motion’s investors include Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, Palomar Ventures, Comcast Interactive Capital, Northgate Capital and Infocomm Investments. The company is headquartered in Singapore with operations in Silicon Valley, India, Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines.

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  Bubble Motion added Paul Palmer as VP, Sales.
  Posted 5/11/11 at 10:12pm
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  Bubble Motion added Sumesh Menon as Sr. Director, Marketing.
  Posted 12/2/10 at 5:28pm
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  Bubble Motion added Joanne Joynson-Hewlett as VP, Finanace.
  Posted 12/2/10 at 5:28pm
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  Bubble Motion added Brad Porteus as CMO.
  Posted 2/9/10 at 9:40am
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  Bubble Motion added Ajay Arora as Director, Product Management.
  Posted 10/1/09 at 2:20pm
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  Bubble Motion added Kadir Koken as Vice President, Service Delivery and Operations.
  Posted 8/28/09 at 5:12am
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  Bubble Motion added Frank Laurencio as CFO.
  Posted 10/8/08 at 2:46am
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  Bubble Motion added TS Ramakrishnan as CTO.
  Posted 10/8/08 at 2:46am
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  Bubble Motion added Paul Devine as Vice President, Engineering.
  Posted 10/8/08 at 2:46am
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  Bubble Motion added David Still as Vice President, Product Management.
  Posted 3/26/08 at 5:45pm
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  Bubble Motion added Bill Crawley as Vice President, Sales.
  Posted 3/26/08 at 5:43pm
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  Bubble Motion added Thomas Clayton as Chief Executive Officer & President.
  Posted 3/26/08 at 5:43pm
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  Bubble Motion received $10M in Series D funding. (1/30/11)
  Posted 3/30/11 at 7:44pm via techcrunch.com
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  Bubble Motion received $6M in Series C funding. (6/1/09)
  Posted 6/1/09 at 7:06pm via venturebeat.com
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  Bubble Motion received $5M in Angel funding. (3/1/04)
  Posted 10/8/08 at 2:49am
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  Bubble Motion received $10M in Series A funding. (9/11/06)
  Posted 3/26/08 at 5:41pm via bubblemotion.com

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1. early round not publically disclosed prior [edit]
2. Press Release (bubblemotion.com) [edit]
3. Press Release (bubblemotion.com) [edit]
4. Bubble Motion raises $6M for mobile voice messaging (venturebeat.com) [edit]
5. Bubble Motion Raises $10M For Social Voice Blogging Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Bubble Motion’s Voice Blogging Service Reaches 1.2 Million Paid Subscribers In India (techcrunch.com) [edit]