Private | |
Industry | Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) |
Founded | 2006 |
Founders | Steven Kokinos Derek Yoo |
Headquarters | Boston, MA, USA |
Number of locations
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12 |
Key people
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Steven Kokinos (Founder & chairman) Colin Doherty (CEO) Derek Yoo (Founder & CTO) Brian Day (CFO) Brian Kardon (CMO) Keith Johnson (CPO) Mary Good (CPO) Laurie Harrison (CLO) Chris Conry (CIO) David Johnson (SVP) |
Products | Voice calling, audio and video conferencing, chat, and analytics |
Number of employees
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700(February 2016) |
Website | fuze.com |
Fuze (formerly known as ThinkingPhones) is a provider of cloud-based Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS). The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Vales/
Fuze's main product combines business voice, videoconferencing, text, instant messaging and collaboration apps under a single cloud service delivered both to traditional phone systems and mobile devices. It runs on a natively-developed platform, and is focused primarily on enterprise and mid-market customers. The company also provides analytics and real-time intelligence, with an expanded version of caller ID that pulls information from a caller's online profiles to provide more information on the caller. The products can integrate with existing enterprise software services, such as Salesforce and Gmail.
In early 2016, the company had approximately 1,500 clients, including Associated Press, Starbucks, Macys.com, Acquia and Marketo. Past clients include Arm & Hammer, John Hancock Financial, Sony and Century 21. Fuze competes with Google, Microsoft and Cisco in offering a combination of phone, videoconferencing, text and related services.
Thinking Phone Networks was founded in 2006 by Steven Kokinos and Derek Yoo, as an enterprise software company. Kokinos was previously a co-founder of BladeLogic, where Yoo was a product manager. Thinking Phones' initial focus was unifying voice, text and conferencing services through an Internet-based platform. Originally marketed as a business VoIP or hosted PBX replacement service for mid-market and enterprise customers, the company expanded its services to provide messaging, presence, video services, collaboration and analytics within the unified communications industry. In 2010, Thinking Phone Networks launched one of the first mobile business phone applications on the iOS store, and later released an Android version of the service.