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Heysan

Free messaging on mobile phones

Heysan was a free mobile messaging and community based in San Francisco, California. Initially Heysan provided free messaging between phones and computers, bridging IM with SMS. The service expanded into launching a mobile community and has over 1 million users doing tens of million of monthly messages. In the summer of 2007 Heysan raised a seed round from Khosla Ventures and Atomico, the venture funds of Vinod Khosla and Niklas Zennstrom. Heysan was acquired by Good Technology in May 2009.
Former Founders
Gustaf Alstromer
Gustaf Alstromer
Founder/CEO
General Partner at YC
Marie Brattberg
Marie Brattberg
Founder/Product Manager
Chief Strategy Officer, Recorded Future
Pär Lindhe
Pär Lindhe
Founder/Product Development / UX lead
2024- Creating Camthis: New twist on live event streaming from multiple angles. Co-founded Heysan - A mobile cross-protocol chat app and community - Eventually aquired Later created Candid - a SaaS for recruiters to communicate with the employer during headhunting projects. Active with paying high retention customers.
Parham Michael Ossareh
Parham Michael Ossareh
Founder/developer, tech dude
making things.
Heysan
Founded:2007
Batch:Winter 2007
Status:
Acquired
Location:San Francisco