(The Hosting News) – Bubble Motion today announced that it has raised $10 million (USD) in growth capital to accelerate the roll-out of its voice-based social communications service that has attracted millions of consumers across Asia. Led by SingTel Innov8, the SingTel Group’s corporate venture capital fund, this round also includes Singapore’s Infocomm Investments in addition to insiders Sequoia Capital, Palomar Ventures, and NGC.

This is Bubble Motion’s second round of financing since its strategic shift into becoming a social messaging company in 2009. Since Bubble Motion launched Bubbly™, its flagship voice-based social messaging service, just one year ago, it has gained over 7 million users across 4 countries (India, Indonesia, Japan and Philippines) and has delivered more than 250 million bubble messages through its service.

This strategic round of financing will be used by Bubble Motion to accelerate growth of its service into new countries, while scaling its technology platform which has become the standard voice-based mobile social networking solution for mobile operators across Asia. The company’s flagship service Bubbly will expand to additional mobile platforms including additional operator networks, the mobile Web and smartphone applications.

Bubble Motion is already working closely with several large associates within the SingTel Group, including Bharti Airtel in India, Telkomsel in Indonesia, and Globe in the Philippines. SingTel brings a vast network of operator partners and contacts, as well as renowned telecom expertise and experience to Bubble Motion.

“We have been impressed with the strong growth of the Bubbly service across Asia and are excited to be joining up with the Bubble Motion team” said Yvonne Kwek, CEO of SingTel Innov8. “We are looking forward to working with the company to build and expand on their early success.

“We are excited to have SingTel and Infocomm Investments join our group of existing investors as we continue to shape the mobile social media landscape in Asia and beyond,” states Bubble Motion CEO Thomas Clayton. “Given our focus in mobile social media in Asia, these two new investors are the perfect fit for our current strategy and we’re very excited to have them onboard.”

“Bubble Motion has assembled a world-class team in Singapore. It is yet another leading tech startup leveraging Singapore’s position as a base for technology innovation and to address the fast-growing Asian market,” said Dr Kuo-Yi Lim, CEO of Infocomm Investments. “Infocomm Investments is pleased to join a distinguished team of investors and be a strategic partner to Bubble Motion.”

For more information about Bubble Motion, please visit http://www.bubblemotion.com or email contact(at)bubblemotion(dot)com.

About Bubble Motion

Bubble Motion is pioneering social communication for mobile phones. Bubble Motion’s Bubbly™ is a social messaging service where people share SMS and voice updates with friends, family, fans and followers. Bubbly is like ‘Twitter with a voice’ and brings social networking to mobile phones.

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