| Website | iskoot.com |
| Category | Web |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 4/05 |
| Total | $13.2M |
| Series A, 11/06 Jesselson Capital Khosla Ventures ZG Ventures | $6.2M |
| Series B, 2/07 Charles River Ventures Jesselson Capital Khosla Ventures ZG Ventures | $7M |
iSkoot extends the reach of PC Calling by allowing users to make and receive PC Calls using only their regular cell phones.
With iSkoot, a mobile phone user gets the power of PC Calling as part of their normal communications capabilities. iSkoot eliminates the need for special hardware, headsets, microphones, broadband connections, USB phones and even PCs, and consumers don’t have to go looking for a WiFi hot spot.
iSkoot has an extended partnership with Skype. This follows iSkoot’s successful collaboration with Skype and mobile operator 3 for the global launch of the 3 Skypephone, the first ever mass-market Skype™-enabled mobile handset.
iSkoot offers Skype-branded mobile software to mobile network operators in Argentina, Greece, Israel, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey. These products deliver mobile Skype voice functionality based on circuit switch-to-VoIP technology. iSkoot delivers an end-to-end client/server/gateway solution that leverages the ubiquitous circuit switching infrastructure of the traditional voice network.
| Website | iskoot.com |
| Blog | iskoot.com/iskootblog |
| Launch Date | February 1, 2006 |
| Tags | skype-voip-presence-messaging-mobile |
San Francisco-based iSkoot brings leading internet services like Skype to mobile handsets around the world, delivering rich consumer experiences with minimal impact on operator networks.
iSkoot launched the first and only carrier-grade, carrier-deployed Skype-for-Mobile application in 2006, and now powers the Mobile World Congress award-winning 3 Skypephone currently sold in eight countries on three continents.
iSkoot takes advantage of the voice-optimized circuit-switched network for delivery of voice communications, in keeping with its mission to engineer elegant and operator-friendly solutions to the challenge of bringing resource-intensive internet services to mobile handsets.
