WhosHere is an iOS app for location-based social networking that lets users meet nearby people and offers free SMS, free MMS image sending, and free VoIP calls. The company positions the product as a broader-market dating and mobile, location-aware classifieds hybrid and is compared in the article to Grindr and Skout. WhosHere reports more than four million registered users, an average of 10 million messages sent per day, and over 2 billion SMS messages sent across its history in 14 languages. The startup says it is profitable, with total revenue surpassing $1 million as of June 2011. WhosHere is made by myRete, a three-year-old startup with offices in San Mateo, CA and Alexandria, VA. Management says the investment will be used to scale the business and expand the team, and the company is actively hiring West Coast developers and East Coast operations staff.

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Aug 2011