bangalore india founder s shivakumar g ishwar sridharan siddharth ramesh vijay sharma industry telecommunications employees 200 website exotel.in exotel is a cloud telephony service provider for small and medium enterprises in india . it provides virtual phone numbers and telephony applications to businesses . contents 1 history 2 products and services 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit exotel was started by shivakumar ganesan in 2011 . shivakumar s previous venture roopit needed a simple automated call center solution for which he built an in house product and eventually it became a standalone company in the form of exotel . 1 2 exotel picked up a rs . 25 million approximately us 500 000 1 funding from mumbai angels and blume ventures in march 2012 . 3 witnessing rapid growth exotel s annual revenue crossed rs . 10 million while serving more than 350 clients by june 2013 . 4 in february 2015 exotel acquired social media startup croak.it in an effort to strengthen its line of products in voice . 5 6 exotel is currently handling more than 1 million calls a day with over 18000 companies registered on its site and over 45000 users . 7 in march 2016 exotel set up research division to spur innovation in voice space . 8 products and services edit exotel provides small and medium enterprises in india products like ivr sms call recording software and other applications around cloud telephony . 9 they also provide api to developers and technology teams to build 3rd party applications for businesses . 10 see also edit twilio plivo knowlarity communications references edit a b meet your next gen telephone operator . the times of india . 26 march 2013 . retrieved 3 june 2013 . marrying intelligence of the internet with phones . business line . 23 august 2012 . retrieved 3 june 2013 . cloud telephony startup exotel gets rs 2.5 cr from mumbai angels blume . reuters . 28 march 2012 . retrieved 3 june 2013 . in the cloud calling smes . business line . 2 june 2013 . retrieved 3 june 2013 . abrar peerzada february 3 2015 . exotel to buy singapore s social media startup croak.it . economic times . retrieved feb 3 2015 via http articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com . reporter bs february 4 2015 . cloud telephony start up exotel acquires voice recognition platform croak.it . business standard . retrieved february 4 2015 via http www.business standard.com . umarji vinay march 30 2015 . exotel sees uptake in cloud telephony among smes . business standard . retrieved march 30 2015 via http www.business standard.com . exotel sets up research division to spur innovation in voice space . the economic times . 16 march 2016 . telephone calls from the cloud . mint . 8 may 2013 . retrieved 3 june 2013 . smart telephony begins to take shape in india as exotel launches developer api in beta . the next web . 27 may 2013 . retrieved 3 june 2013 . external links edit exotel website category ivr retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title exotel & oldid 744149631 categories companies based in bangaloreinternet companies of indiavoip companiestelecommunications companies of indiacloud communication platformshidden categories engvarb from may 2014use dmy dates from may 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 october 2016 at 12 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view