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Heysan

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Heysan is a free mobile messaging and community based in San Francisco, California. The company was founded though Y Combinator and was incubated with Twitter it’s 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 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.

Milestones

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  Heysan was acquired by Good Technology. (5/09)
  Posted 9/10/09 at 7:53am
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  Heysan received $855k in Seed funding. (7/27/07)
  Posted 4/11/08 at 10:03pm
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  Heysan received $20k in Seed funding. (1/25/07)
  Posted 9/3/08 at 1:15pm
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  Heysan added Michael Ossareh as Co-founder & Tech Lead.
  Posted 7/27/09 at 9:31am
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  Heysan added Pär Lindhe as Co-founder.
  Posted 7/27/09 at 9:31am
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  Heysan added Will Glozer as Senior Developer.
  Posted 11/4/09 at 1:11am
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  Heysan added Marie Brattberg as Co-founder.
  Posted 7/27/09 at 9:31am
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  Heysan added Gustaf Alstromer as Co-founder & CEO.
  Posted 7/27/09 at 9:31am
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  Heysan added Jonatan Kallus as Developer.
  Posted 11/4/09 at 1:11am
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  Heysan added William Lindstrom-James as Developer.
  Posted 11/4/09 at 1:11am
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  Heysan added Aaron Seigler as Lead Interface Developer.
  Posted 11/4/09 at 1:11am

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1. Heysan at Atomico Portfolio (atomicoventures.com) [edit]
2. Skype founders help new phone service (metro.se) [edit]
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