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Bangalore based Ezetap raises funds from American Express

Bangalore-based payment device maker Ezetap Mobile Solutions has raised undisclosed amount of funding from American Express to expand its services across Asia and Africa. Ezetap said that the funding investment is minor.

Founded in 2011, Ezetap is mobile point-of-sale provider which is actually combination of a device that reads credit and debit cards and an smartphone app, the device can be mounted on audio jack of any smartphone with Android OS 2.2 or higher.

Till date Ezetap has raised some $12 million in funding. Just a month back, Ezetap received venture funding of $8 million i.e. around Rs 49.8 crore in a Series B funding from a consortium of investors led by venture fund Helion Venture Partners.

Ezetap has also managed to get some prominent ecommerce portal of India in its clientele for cash-on-delivery payments and the clients includes Myntra.com, BookmyShow, RedBus.in and BigBasket.com. Delivery agents pf these e-commerce companies are empowered with the Ezetap device and delivery application to accept and swipe the cards of customers on mobile phones.

Ezetap is certified secure by the leading banks in India and abroad and is authorized for visa, mastercard and American Express cards.

As per reports Ezetap has deployed 12,000 devices across South East Asia and Africa and will use the funds to increase growth in these markets. It aims to take the total number of devices over 100K by next year.

Ezetap is Mobile startup incubated at Bangalore-based AngelPrime and till date has received funding from PayPal's Peter Thiel and enterprise social network company Yammer cofounder David Sacks as well as billionaire Nicolas Berggruen's private equity fund Berggruen Holdings.

Tango, Mobile Messaging App raised $280 million via Alibaba

Tango, the mobile messaging app, has raised $280 million in a new in Series D funding round led by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The investment gives Alibaba a minority stake in the messaging service.

Following footsteps of Facebook who recently bought WatsApp messaging app, Alibaba has invested in Tango messaging app. Moreover Alibaba has also introduced a WeChat competitor called Laiwang however the service isn't doing good in the market so far.

Precisely, out of $280 million Series-D funding Alibaba invested $215 million and the remaining amount of funding came from Tango's earlier investors, which include Access Industries, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Jerry Yang. Earlier Tango has raised $40M in March 2012 from investors like AI SMS, Qualcomm, DFJ and Long Sea Limited.

Tango is a mobile messaging application that allows users to text, play games and make free voice and video calls. Tango is consistently in the top 25 on Google Play and top 100 in the iTunes App Store.

Tango is available in 14 languages and has subscribers in more than 224 countries with nearly one-third of its members in the U.S.

Tango has recently announced that it has doubled its registered users in just a year and it's currently around 200M registered users and 70 million active users.

Tango's co-founder and CTO Eric Setton said the Facebook acquisition proved the value of mobile messaging services. He said the money would be used to build Tango's market share and its technology.

Tango founders tells story behind conceiving the messaging app began as something of an Apple FaceTime competitor, at a time when FaceTime was limited to specific iPhone models and required Wi-Fi to work. Tango came in with an alternative service that allowed users to make video calls on iOS or Android, and over 3G networks.