Heysan
Free messaging on mobile phones
Heysan was a free mobile messaging and community based in San Francisco, California. Initially Heysan provided free messaging between phones and computers, bridging IM with SMS. The service expanded into launching a mobile community and has over 1 million users doing tens of million of monthly messages. In the summer of 2007 Heysan raised a seed round from Khosla Ventures and Atomico, the venture funds of Vinod Khosla and Niklas Zennstrom. Heysan was acquired by Good Technology in May 2009.
Former Founders
Gustaf Alstromer
I spent 4.5 years at Airbnb where he worked as a Product Lead on the Growth team, a team he helped start in 2012. Prior to Airbnb, Gustaf was Head of Growth at Voxer, and before that, he was CEO & co-founder of Heysan, which was part of the YC Winter 2007 batch.
Pär Lindhe
Co-founded Heysan - A mobile cross-protocol chat app and community - Eventually aquired Later created Candid - a SaaS for recruiters to communicate with the employer during headhunting projects. Active with paying high retention customers. 2024: Creating: New twist on live event streaming from multiple angles
Marie Brattberg
Michael Ossareh
