Pinnatta Raises Series A Funding for Next Generation Interactive Mobile Messaging Service
Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) September 12, 2013 -- Pinnatta, Inc. (http://www.pinnatta.com), the world’s first interactive multimedia messaging platform, announced today that it has received $1.5 million in Series A funding from Greek venture capital firms Odyssey Venture Partners and PJ Tech Catalyst. Previous investments from i-FREE (Russia), Cherubic Ventures (China), and US private investors bring the total amount raised to date to $2.2 million.
Pinnatta is a mobile messaging platform that brings personal communication to life by letting people exchange interactive messages with their friends and family. Available for iOS and Android devices, the Pinnatta app uniquely blends the ease and immediacy of text messages with the sentiment and personalization of greeting cards. The app creates rich and unique multimedia experiences that leverage the latest smartphone capabilities, which enable interactivity such as blowing on the device’s microphone to extinguish virtual birthday candles or swiping its touchscreen to unfold virtual origami containing a personalized message. Pinnatta offers hundreds of customizable messages to commemorate special occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries, to celebrate holidays like Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Easter, and to make every day special with daily greetings such as “Good morning,” “Hello,” and “I love you.”
“Pinnatta offers a really unique and personalized experience combining the amazing technology inside today’s mobile devices with a huge library of high-quality, customizable content,” said George Spanoudakis, co-founder and CEO of Pinnatta. “This round of funding allows us to speed up our growth and continue refining the Pinnatta application, which we believe will help define the future of personal communication.”
The new funding positions the company for its next stage, which includes the launch of a significant update to its application. Launching later this month, the updated app will boast an entirely redesigned interface to make sending Pinnattas even easier, plus new group messaging and recommendation features. The app will also add even more sophisticated and customizable Pinnattas to the hundreds of interactive messages already available. The app will launch on Windows Phone and iPad later this year.
Pinnatta will continue to operate out of its headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, with development offices in Athens, Greece. Previous private investors include Andrew Wright, Tasso Argyros, and Stamos Venios.
About Pinnatta
Pinnatta is a next-generation mobile messaging service that lets people instantly and easily connect through fun, personal and interactive greetings. The app leverages the unique capabilities of today’s smartphones to enable mobile users to receive an amazing interactive experience by blowing, tapping, swiping, dragging, rubbing and shaking your device. Pinnatta offers hundreds of customizable messages to commemorate special occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries, to celebrate holidays like Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Easter, and to make every day special with daily greetings such as “Good morning”, “Hello” and “I love you”. Based in Sunnyvale, California, and Athens, Greece, Pinnatta is backed by top-tier investors and led by a seasoned management team with experience building and scaling applications on social and mobile platforms. For more information, visit http://www.pinnatta.com.
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