Advert: date=March 2009 Jaxtr is a social communications company that melds together global calling, SMS, and social networking. Founded by Phillip Mobin and Touraj Parang in October 2005, jaxtr uses Voice over Internet Protocol to offer competitive rates as well as free international and long distance calling. Some key differentiators for jaxtr in its market include allowing phone-to-phone calls to and from any mobile and landline phones, offering social networking focused on voice (café jaxtr), requiring no software downloads or access pins, and giving users local Direct Inward Dialing (DID) phone numbers. Offered in 56 countries, these numbers allow users in those countries to dial a local phone number which would ring a long distance or international destination phone. Jaxtr also offers users a set number of global SMS messages each month.
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Jaxtr reports having over 10 million users in 220 countries in 2008. In June 2008, they raised $10 million in a Series B round of venture capital funding from Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. In the same month, they also launched their paid services. In October, Jaxtr laid off thirty percent of its employees, and its CEO, Konstantin Guericke, was fired.
Currently, the company is located in Menlo Park, CA.
History
- October 2005 jaxtr is founded by Touraj Parang and Phillip Mobin and opens its first office in Palo Alto, CA
- December 2006, jaxtr founders hire Konstantin Guericke as jaxtr CEO away from LinkedIn where he was serving as co-founder and VP Marketing
- December 2006, Private Beta launched
- March 2007, jaxtr launches Public Beta with VoiceBlastsTM and announces seed funding led by Mayfield Fund's Chamath Palihapitiva and David Ladd
- March 2007, jaxtr headquarters move to Menlo Park, CA
- May 2007, jaxtr is named to the Red Herring 100--an award recognizing the 100 "Most Promising Companies Driving the Future of Change"
- May 2007, jaxtr user base reaches 100,000 registered users
- July 2007, jaxtr is selected by AlwaysOn as an AO100 Top Private Company Award Winner
- July 2007, jaxtr user base reaches 500,000, doubled from 250,000 in 27 days
- September 2007, jaxtr raises a $10 Million Series A financing, led by August Capital
- December 2007, jaxtr grows 10-fold to 5 million registered members in 140 days
- February 2008, jaxtr goes out of Beta and launches café jaxtr, the world's first Talk NetworkTM
- April 2008, jaxtr launches free international SMS and grows to more than 10,000,000 users
- May 2008, jaxtr extends its network to support 220 countries with the jaxtr service and 56 countries with local phone numbers
- June 2008, jaxtr opens up its service by launching out-of-network calling
