Well, this makes it official – we’ve raised $2 million in Series A funding from Draper Investment Company, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Mr. Klaus Wecken, co-founder of KHK Software AG.

Raising this sort of money from a group of such respected investors can certainly be seen not only as a vote of confidence, but also as a sign that we’re on the right track.
We’re especially excited that this fresh influx of funds will help accelerate our expansion, as we have already generated more than $2 million in revenues since April 2010 and now have more than 900,000 users, with an additional 15,000 new users a day. And our FriendCaller app is one of the most popular iPhone apps – ranking among the Top 15 free social networking apps.

Much has clearly happened since the idea for C2Call was born back when our CEO Martin Feuerhahn and CTO Michael Knecht traveled the world on projects and found that each region seemed to have its own solution. That made it impossible to communicate with partners and customers on one platform. They came up with C2Call and FriendCaller to solve that issue.

Now, even someone’s grandma can use FriendCaller because we have what we always set out to develop: a free, easy-to-use and straightforward solution. By making calls free over any Internet-ready device, and by enabling social media and other sites with integrated digital voice communication, we are just getting started.

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Cisco XD lets you recreate your complete office environment in 3D through a stunning interface. Not only Cisco equipment but as well furniture and fixtures in high definition 3D, just drop and drag the gear.  Then you can click on a Cisco phone and thanks to our patent pending Click to Call Java technology you can call from and to any of these virtual phones.

For this demo we leaned heavily on our FriendCaller iPhone app and Browser Phone. Check it out, visit www.CiscoXD.com or see the video here:

A very convincing demonstration of the Cisco XD concept combined with the versatile Java based C2Call instant VoIP technology.

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Interesting to see that despite the magnitude of the quake and the almost complete destruction of whatever little infrastructure was in place before, the Internet survived, almost immediately after the quake the first eyewitness reports came through the Internet.

The traditional approach to emergency and first responders’ communication is very robust, reliable, heavy, military style of communication equipment. In Germany for example just started to build a separate GSM network for Policy and emergency services, a huge task considering that the country is covered already by several GSM providers network.

To me Haiti is a good example that the approach to emergency communication may have to shift, it is practically impossible to have some 50 nations participating in the relief work to agree on a common communication network, leave alone to deploy it in a matter of hours. So it came to my mind, why not using VoIP? It is possible to create a infrastructure with ten thousands of users including an emergency phone book in a matter of a few hours and with inter operational standards like SIP it can be deployed on all kind of devices, platforms and communication layers like GSM, UMTS, CDMA, DSL, PSTN etc. What ever is still there or could be added could be used.

So a lightweight VoIP solution could be a better solution to the closed-user group military style of equipment in use today. I’m not saying  that www.c2call.com is the right solution but the use of VoIP in general should be considered and further researched for the benefit of all of us.

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This blog is dedicated to C2Call and trends around browser based VoIP solutions in general. C2Call (click-to-call) is the first and only browser-based VoIP solution that can start a web-phone and establish a peer-to-peer connection platform-independent through any Java enabled Internet browser without prerequisite installations. It can be easily integrated in any web service and we have done it recently for a few of the big names under the usual NDAs and hope that one day we are allowed to talk about this as well.

However, C2Call demonstrates with the fast growing end-user website www.FriendCaller.com and its FriendCaller iPhone apps the tremendous potential of web-based Voice Communication to the general public and we are a bit overwhelmed about the success, on Thanksgiving alone where we ran a very moderate PPC campaign on Google adWords we did see more than 10,000 sign ups,

Browser-based is sometimes confused with “web-activated”. These Jajah-type calls are activated by submitting 2 phone numbers to a server that calls both phone numbers simultaneously. I think it is a brilliant idea when you have 2 phone and Internet connection on hand but consequently somebody has to pay for 2 phone calls, there are no free calls in the world of the good old telcos providing phone lines.

The C2Call Java app instead has essentially the same Voice en- and decoding functionality as installed clients used by Skype or Google Talk. C2Call is pretty unique, the only competing technology is flash based. We will talk about flash based VoIP clients and why we developed Java based C2Call after evaluating Flash in more details some other time.

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