Get the latest tech news
After spending three years working on SMS verification at Zenly, Prelude founders want to fix SMS onboarding
Prelude is a relatively new a new French startup that focuses on SMS verification; it's announcing new funding from Singular and Seedcamp on Wednesday.
The two founders met when they were working for Zenly, a popular location-sharing app with tens of millions of users that was acquired by Snap (and later shut down). As it turns out, I spent most of the three years I stayed at Zenly on this issue, and we built a team around it,” Prelude co-founder and CEO Matias Berny (pictured above on the left) told TechCrunch. In late 2023, the Signal Foundation shared its operating budget for its popular messaging app and service; SMS verification codes alone cost $6 million per year.
Or read this on TechCrunch
