• Developer Of ‘Social Keyboard’ Android App SwiftKey Raises $2.4 Million

    Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

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    TouchType, the London-based company behind the popular SwiftKey Android applications, has raise $2.4 million (£1.5 million) in Series A funding in a round led by Octopus Investments.

    SwiftKey is a keyboard app that leverages TouchType’s natural language engine technology (dubbed Fluency) to learn a user’s writing style and try to accurately correct and even predict their text input. The idea is for the app to reduce the number of keystrokes and speed up text entry on smartphones and tablet computers.

    Read more at TechCrunch Europe.


    Company: TouchType
    Launch Date: August 2008
    Funding: $3.93M

    TouchType Ltd, is a rapidly growing, successful company that builds apps and technology that learn from their users to make text entry easier, faster and more productive. The company’s revenue comes from sales of apps on the Android Market and Amazon Appstore, as well as licensing deals with OEM manufacturers. TouchType have licensed their technology to a number of OEMs including Vizio. The consumer offering, SwiftKey X, a keyboard for Android devices, learns from its user to help predict and correct text...

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