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Phonevite
Location: 4620 Fortran Drive, Suite 207, San Jose, California 95134, United States United States
Founded in: 2007
Stage: Revenue generating
Number of employees: 1-5
Profitable year: 2009
Short URL: vator.co/Phonevite-Phonevite
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Phonevite

Startup/business
California, United States United States United States
http://www.phonevite.com
About
Company description
Phonevite is the award-winning most popular, easiest-to-use, community-based voice broadcasting service.    Created by pioneers of VoIP, whose previous start-up was acquired by Yahoo!, Phonevite's advanced internet telephony service is currently used by thousands of churches, schools, boy/girl scouts, sports leagues, municipalities, non-profits and other similar organizations to broadcast time-critical alerts, reminders and notifications, over the phone to their respective members.
Team

John Nahm, Co-Founder/CEO

- Former Sr. Product Mgr / Bizdev Mgr,  Dialpad (VoIP start-up acquired by  Yahoo! in 2005)

- Launched Award-winning Dialpad Premium Services. (Free service was offered to over 14 million users worldwide)

- Founder/Director, Oceans International

- VP Corporate/Int’l Banking, US Bancorp.
- Deloitte Consulting
- UN Development Programme - Latin America & Caribbean
- Master’s & B.A. Economics from Columbia University
 

Kalvin Kim, Co-Founder/CTO

- Former Director of Engineering, Dialpad (acquired by Yahoo!)

- Founding Member of Dialpad

- Developed core VoIP platforms and clients, now used by Yahoo! Messenger & Yahoo! Voice

- Sr. Software Engineer, Serome Technology, S. Korean parent company of Dialpad

- BSc.Chosun University

 

 

Business model
Phonevite reaches out to community organizations, groups and individuals by providing them a Free service that allows them to send voice broadcasts to up to 25 group members' phones.    A portion of these users purchase the Premium Service for higher-volume calling needs.   We provide a useful and needed communications service in/for communities across North America.
Competitive advantage
  • Cost/Price Structure – less than half our major competitors’ (we are the only company of its kind providing an unconditional FREE service)
  • Flexible/Scalable Technology – leveraging our pioneering background in VoIP/Web;  Infrastructure built from the ground up without reliance on third party solutions/integration
  • Brand - Fast becoming the most well-known brand/service for voice broadcasting/automated calling
  • Deep Regard for Privacy/Compliance – Tight safeguards and careful roll-out of new services