MessageMe offers iOS and Android apps that send rich messages to friends, family, and groups, including YouTube videos, iTunes tracks, voice recordings, and emoticons. The app grew quickly and said it had 1 million users around the time it raised seed funding about a month earlier. MessageMe has positioned itself to compete with incumbents like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, though observers note it will need more momentum to displace WhatsApp’s traction. The article highlights WhatsApp’s scale—processing 8 billion inbound and over 12 billion outbound messages a day—to underscore the competitive challenge. MessageMe recently completed a new $10 million financing round, following its $1.9 million seed round. The new funding was first revealed via an SEC filing. MessageMe is a mobile multimedia messenger led by CEO Arjun Sethi that provides group chat plus multimedia features including music, video and drawing tools. The app is available on both Android and iOS. It supports 16 languages, including Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, German, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Greek, Finnish, Croatian, Indonesian and Dutch. The company announced a seed funding round totaling $1.9M. Backers span prominent venture firms and angel investors. The funding will support the continued development and expansion of its messaging product and language support.

Total raised

$12M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

May 2013