Kirusa scales up its operations in Bangalore

Wednesday, December 19, 2007, Bangalore, India: Kirusa, inventor of Voice SMS and a leading mobile value added services provider headquartered in New Jersey, USA, today announced expansion of its Bangalore operations to a new 10,000 sq. ft. facility in a prime location in Bangalore.

Kirusa’s flagship product Voice SMS has received excellent response worldwide with dozens of mobile operators adopting Kirusa Voice SMS as a value added offering for their subscribers. Kirusa recently announced a Series C financing of US $ 13.3 million from Helion Venture Capital, Nexus India Capital, Qualcomm Ventures Eastven Partners, the successor fund to Ericsson Venture Partners, and Erasmic Venture Fund to fuel Kirusa’s global expansion to help meet strong worldwide demand for its products, and to increase its R&D activities.

Kirusa has been operating a research and development centre from Bangalore since December 2003. The company has grown from strength to strength over the last four years with teams growing in New Jersey, Bangalore, and New Delhi.

Dr. Inderpal Singh Mumick, CEO, Kirusa, said on the occasion, “The global demand for Kirusa’s products such as Voice SMS and other mobile value added services is fueling increased needs for innovation, product development, and support. The new Kirusa facility at Bangalore will help us meet the needs of our increasing universe of customers."

About Kirusa

Kirusa is one of the leading global developers of Mobile Social Media and Value Added Services enabling mobile subscribers to reach out to their family and friends. Kirusa’s solutions include the hugely successful Kirusa Voice SMS service, the world’s most advanced Voice SMS solution, used by over 30 carriers around the world. Kirusa has pioneered a suite of social media applications that facilitate mobile subscribers to interact through voice, including the Call-n-Tweet application which helps users update their Twitter status using voice. Kirusa provides an open platform with APIs to enable third parties to offer mobile applications services to mobile subscribers. Used by mobile subscribers millions of times daily, Kirusa solutions are built on its patented and patent pending technology and its highly reliable and scalable open multimodal platform. Kirusa has been recognized as one of top 100 technology companies by Silicon India, and one of top 25 emerging technology companies by Smart Techie magazine. Headquartered in New Jersey and led by an experienced team of wireless telecom executives and technologists, Kirusa has offices in three continents. ‘Kirusa Voice SMS,’ is a trademark of Kirusa, Inc.

For more information visit: www.kirusa.com.

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