engageSPARK, a Cebu (Philippines)-based mobile engagement that allows “anyone to interact with anyone via any phone at scale’, has received an undisclosed sum in investment led by Silicon Valley-based VC fund-cum-accelerator 500 Startups.
As per a statement, the startup will use the financing to fund its sales & marketing expansion globally and also to enhance its technology platform. “All of our investors have deep expertise in B2B businesses, especially in the communications markets. This funding will help us scale our traction and platform to new markets,” said Ravi Agarwal, Founder & CEO of engageSPARK and a Partner at 500 Startups.
Launched in 2015, engageSPARK enables anyone, anywhere to build and launch SMS and voice call alerts, surveys, reminders, educational curriculums, and on-demand information campaigns to 200-plus countries – within a short time. NGOs and governments anywhere can use the platform to extend the reach and impact of their social change programmes to encompass all poor people in the world who have mobile phones. Similarly, using engageSPARK, businesses can expand their customer base and conduct targeted consumer research.
A self-service website, any non-technical person can quickly create and launch many types of interactive SMS and voice messaging campaigns. This enables anyone, anywhere to send key information and collect important data from any recipient with access to a phone.
engageSPARK has clients in over 125 countries, including BASF, Convergys, Facebook, Google, Grameen Foundation, Intel, and UNICEF.
Organisations without IT staff can use its 3-step wizards to build and launch blasts, surveys, auto replies, interviews, information services, curriculums, IVR campaigns, and hotlines. engageSPARK also offers APIs…