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StatusPrivately Held
Websitewww.zong.com
Blogblog.zong.com
CategoryMobile
Phone(650) 362 0434
Emailinfo@zong.com
Address Echovox, Inc.
370 Convention Way, Suite 2J
Redwood City, CA, 94063
USA
Employees60
Founded11/00

People

Founder and CEO
Chief Operating Officer
GM Zong Europe
VP Engineering
CTO
VP Business Development
VP Operations
VP Sales

Funding

Total$12.5M
Series A, 7/05 1
Newbury Ventures
$5M
Series B, 2/07 2
Advent Venture Partners
$7.5M

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mobile-framework, open-framwork, mobile-apps

Zong

Zong is an open mobile platform provider from Geneva and Redwood City-based mobile media provider Echovox, Inc. The framework allows publishers to create apps in a matter of minutes offering quizzes, polls, alerts, RSS feeds and more via SMS text message shortcodes and responses.

Zong also develops turnkey applications to accompany the open mobile platform that can be quickly customized and launched, as well as an API that allows publishers to serve and bill customers through a variety of apps beyond basic SMS interaction.

The company’s revenue model expects publishers to charge customers for use of the apps and the billing mechanism is built into Zong. Mobile carriers take 40 to 50% of revenue from the apps, Zong will take less than 10%, with the rest going to the publishers.

The model is renowned for quick development and easy deployability.

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  1. Press - Unstrung (unstrung.com) [edit]
  2. Advent Venture Partners (adventventures.com) [edit]
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Last Edited 5/5/08

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