IMified acquired by Voxeo

Scott Hildebrand — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:00:01 +0000

Sacramento startup IMified (profile), founded by SacStart’s founder Adam Kalsey, has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Voxeo, a provider of platforms for building voice and telephony applications. Voxeo is a privately-held company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. Adam and the other founders of IMified have joined Voxeo’s R&D group as part of the sale.

IMified offers a simple, web-based platform that enables companies and developers to write an instant messaging (IM) application once and connect it to all the public IM networks, including AIM (AOL), GTalk (Google), MSN (Microsoft) and Yahoo. Building, managing, and scaling an interactive IM application or “bot” has traditionally been a complex and frustrating task. IMified’s solution removes the complexity and provides a simple solution for building and deploying IM applications on multiple public IM networks using one simple API.

Voxeo’s products are often used as part of unified communications and self-service application suites. IMified’s technology will extend their capabilities in this area. Jonathan Taylor, Voxeo’s President and CEO said, “instant Messaging is an important piece of any company’s unified communication strategy. IMified significantly expands Voxeo’s unified communications offerings with the worlds largest IM application platform and most experienced development team.”

The existing IMified services won’t immediately change, and the service is still taking signups for new developers. Voxeo has not revealed any future integration plans.

Adam is remaining in Sacramento and will continue to be involved in SacStarts.

FeedCrier Acquired

Scott Hildebrand — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:30:15 +0000

There's no reason to cry anymore because our very own Adam Kalsey's FeedCrier, has been swept off its feet by IMified. Big congratulations to Adam and we'll be looking forward to see what the extended team can accomplish.

According to Pete Cashmore of Mashable, FeedCrier was a technology buy, but according to me they just want to work with Adam because he looks like John Travolta. He also makes a mean cup of coffee which makes him a quite valuable co-worker.

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