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 its 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 Khosla Ventures and Atomico, the venture funds of Vinod Khosla and Niklas Zennstrom.

Heysan was acquired by Good Technology in May 2009.

Recent Milestones
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Heysan was acquired by Good Technology. (5/1/09)

Posted 9/10/09 at 7:53am via atomicoventures.com
Heysan received $855k in Seed funding. (7/27/07)

Posted 4/11/08 at 10:03pm via metro.se
Heysan received $20k in Seed funding. (1/25/07)

Posted 9/3/08 at 1:15pm
Heysan added Michael Ossareh as Co-founder & Tech Lead. (1/1/07)

Posted 7/27/09 at 9:31am
Heysan added PÃ¤r Lindhe as Co-founder.

Posted 7/27/09 at 9:31am
Heysan added Will Glozer as Senior Developer.

Posted 11/4/09 at 1:11am
Heysan added Jonatan Kallus as Developer.

Posted 11/4/09 at 1:11am
Heysan added Marie Brattberg as Co-founder.

Posted 7/27/09 at 9:31am
Heysan added William Lindstrom-James as Developer.

Posted 11/4/09 at 1:11am
Heysan added Aaron Seigler as Lead Interface Developer.

Posted 11/4/09 at 1:11am
Heysan added David Weiden as Board of Directors.

Posted 12/9/09 at 2:53pm