Company description
Twezr is a personal organizer – the best way to stay in sync with close friends and co-workers. Twezr organizes all the contacts and all the content they’ve shared over email, Facebook and Twitter in one place. Twezr helps people quickly find, view and respond to the messages from their close friends and co-workers. Twezr is available for free in the iTunes app store.
Team
Delip Andra, Founder & CEO of Twezr is passionate about building products that transform the way people live, work and communicate.
An entrepreneur for more than a decade, Delip has spent the last five years harnessing the potential of personalized search and social collaboration technologies. Delip’s most recent venture Minekey leveraged these ideas to build a popular discussion network that reached over two million members that connect with other like minded people on topics of their interest.
Previously Delip founded Euclid, a silicon valley based venture funded startup that pioneered cloud services (along with startups like Marc Andressen’s Loud Cloud) over a decade ago when the term “cloud” wasn’t even coined. Earlier in his career, Delip worked with Philips in Europe and India where he successfully commercialized several innovations developed at Philips Labs.
Delip earned a Bachelor of Technology degree with Honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
Business model
According to Morgan Stanley estimates, Global Smartphone user base is expected to grow from 400 M in 2010 to over 1.3 B by the end of 2013. Based on these estimates, Twezr's addressable market would be in the range of $ 3-4 B by 2013.
Twezr has multiple revenue opportunities such as:
1. Offering a paid version of the product (freemium)
2. Offering value added services to business users (cloud backup of contacts, integration with enterprise services etc.,)
3. Offering virtual goods for various social interactions
4. Promoting local businesses within the contact lists
5. Personalized time sensitive deals
We a significant potential in promoting local businesses and instant deals within Twezr.
Competitive advantage
People are using Twezr to aggregate and organize their contacts and inboxes. We would like to leverage our early leadership in contacts and message organization to develop a free text messaging network across Smartphone users.