U2opia Mobile

U2opia Mobile
Type of businessPrivate
Founded2010; 16 years ago (2010) in Singapore,[1]
No. of locationsDubai, Gurgaon, San Francisco, Manila and Singapore(HQ)
Area servedWorldwide
Founders
  • Sumesh Menon
  • Ankit Nautiyal
ProductsFonetwish
Employees150 (2015)
URLwww.u2opiamobile.com

U2opia Mobile is a Singaporean mobile technology company. The company’s main product Fonetwish enables customers to receive real time updates from social networking sites such as Facebook,[2] Twitter and Google on any handset without access to the internet.[3] It also develops several social applications.

History

U2opia Mobile was founded by Sumesh Menon[4] and Ankit Nautiyal in 2010.

By 2014, the company had a customer base of 15 million in over 33 countries.[5]

In October 2017, U2opia Mobile launched Reycreo, a platform geared to help game discovery and adoption in frontier markets.[6]

Products and services

Fonetwish, the company’s main product, is a mobile application platform that works on the USSD protocol. It enables customers to access their Facebook or Twitter accounts from any location without having a 3G, EDGE or any other internet connection.[7] Users can access their accounts by navigating through a textual, session-based interface. The service is popular in several countries in Asia and Africa. The service is also available in Central and South American countries like Haiti, El Salvador and Bolivia. The versions of Facebook and Twitter are text only and do not have any photos or videos.[citation needed] The company also develops several social applications.[citation needed]

Operations

U2opia Mobile has offices in Dubai, Gurgaon, and San Francisco along with their headquarters in Singapore. It has over 150 employees and was backed by the private equity investment firm Matrix Partners in 2011. It has partnered with telecom companies such as Bharti Airtel, Facebook and Twitter.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Khan, Taslima. "Look East Policy". businesstoday.intoday.in/. Living Media India Limited. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  2. ^ Puri, Nitin. "Indian vendor taps USSD to provide Facebook access". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 24 November 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  3. ^ Kurt Wagner (6 December 2013). "Internet-Free Twitter Service Coming to International Markets". mashable.com/. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  4. ^ Khan, Taslima. "What Narendra Modi can do for start-ups". businesstoday.intoday.in/. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  5. ^ KK, Sruthijith. "Two-thirds of the world's mobiles are dumb phones. Meet the company getting them online". qz.com/. Atlantic Media Co. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  6. ^ "U2opia Mobile Launches Reycreo Focuses on Game Distribution in Frontier Markets". BW Disrupt. BW online bureau. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  7. ^ Chanpreet Khurana (15 June 2013). "U2opia Mobile-Just text to tweet". www.livemint.com. Retrieved 12 May 2014.

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