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Websitetango.me
Twitter@TangoMe
CategoryMobile/Wireless
Emailpress@tango.me
Employees130
Founded9/09
DescriptionWhere Messaging Meets Entertainment

Offices

Main HQ
475 Ellis Street
Mountain View, CA, 94043
USA

People

Founder & CEO
VP, Finance & Business Operations
VP, Engineering
VP, Technology & Chief Architect
VP, Content & Business Development
CTO/Co-founder

Funding

TOTAL $87M
FUNDING TOTAL $87M
Series A, 9/10
Bill Tai
$5M
Series B, 7/11
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
Len Blavatnik
Alex Zubillaga
$42M
Series C, 4/12
Qualcomm Ventures
Access Industries
$40M

Competitors

Tags

Tango

Tango is an all-in-one social networking app that gives your unique and meaningful ways to interact with your friends and family.

Tango allows you to send free text messages, play games, and make free phone calls and video calls with those you care about. Tango works on iPhones, iPod touch, hundreds of Android phones and Windows Phone devices, as well as tablets and PCs, and provides high quality experience over 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi. More than 100 million people in 212 countries already love using the service.

Founded in September 2009, Tango has raised over $87M from leading venture capital firms and top individual investors. Download the Tango application for free in the iTunes App Store, Google Play Store, and the Tango website, www.tango.me. Tango is based in Mountain View, California.

Tango features include: –Free, high-quality mobile video, phone calls, texts, photo sharing, games, and more over 3G, 4G, LTE and Wi-Fi –Tango Contacts automatically populate from existing phone contact list –New profile not required –Invite friends and others with one click by e-mail or text

Recent Milestones

  • Check
    Tango — Tango surpasses 100M members (3/7/13)
    Posted 3/7/13 at 2:50pm via marketwire.com
  • Dollar
    Tango received $40M in Series C funding. (4/19/12)
    Posted 4/19/12 at 3:47am via venturebeat.com
  • Dollar
    Tango received $42M in Series B funding. (7/20/11)
    Posted 7/20/11 at 8:07am via techcrunch.com
  • Check
    Tango — Tango opens its Beijing office. (6/29/11)
    Posted 6/29/11 at 3:06pm
  • Check
    Tango — Tango announced that one million people downloaded Tango in the first 10 days of its release on September 30. Tango debuted as the number one Social Networking application in the App Store. (10/12/10)
    Posted 11/1/10 at 4:10pm via marketwire.com
  • Dollar
    Tango received $5M in Series A funding. (9/1/10)
    Posted 11/1/10 at 4:11pm
  • Check
    Tango added Eric Setton as CTO/Co-founder. (1/1/09)
    Posted 10/11/10 at 11:58am

Videos

Above:

Tango Voice, Video, and Text

Added: 12/11/12
Above:

How to Make a Tango Video Call

Added: 9/18/12
Above:

Founder Eric Setton Demos Tango, video by Alexa Lee

Added: 9/18/12

Screenshots

Tango screenshot
Above: Updated design
Uploaded: 3/7/13
Tango screenshot
Above: Photo Editing
Uploaded: 3/7/13

Sources

  1. Citation Needed [add]
  2. Tango Takes $42 Million VC Round To The Bank And Its Mobile Video Calling To The PC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Tango video chat gets $40M from Qualcomm and Access, scores 45M users in 18 months (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  4. Tango Hits One Million Downloads in 10 Days (marketwire.com) [edit]
    Citation Needed [add]
    Marketwire (marketwire.com) [edit]
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