Nimbuzz is a free-to-download mobile social messenger combining instant Messaging, VoIP, real-time chat, (geo) presence and filesharing.
Supporting all major platforms including emerging technologies such as Android, the application lets users connect and interact with their friends across popular communities, including Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, AIM, Facebook, MySpace and many more. Nimbuzz also offers PC, Mac and web-based clients.
From one contact list users can call, chat, message and more, with all their friends in one place. Nimbuzz is a feature rich mass market product for the hyper-connected lifestyle. All you need is an internet-enabled mobile phone with an internet connection.
Nimbuzz recently introduced NimbuzzOut, the first revenue-generating product that allows users to make low-cost international calls direct from their mobile to landlines and other mobile phones anywhere in the world.
Since launch, Nimbuzz has enjoyed extraordinary success:
- registering over 1 million new users a month (a new user every 3 seconds!)
- Users in every country of the planet (200+ countries).
- 98% would recommend Nimbuzz to a friend (based on 06/09 user survey with 20,000 respondents).
- Compatible with 95% of global Top 20 handsets in every country.
- Only mobile social messaging aggregator to ever win the prestigious Red Herring Global 100 award for the European and Gloabl competition.
- Honored by mobile industry experts as “Best Converged Solution” at Mobile News Awards 2009, “Best Mobile Startup” at Techcrunch EMEA awards, and “Top Global 250” tech company at AO Standford Summit for the second year in a row.
Nimbuzz received $25m VC and strategic funding from Mangrove Capital Partners (Skype), Naspers/MIH (Tencent, Mail.ru, Gadu-Gadu, Mweb, Sanook, Tradus) and Holtzbrinck Ventures (Kyte, StudiVZ).