Fast Facts
ChaCha’s Mission:
Providing the easiest way to access information while on the go
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- Mobile Answers Text Service launched January 2008 - ChaCha is the only mobile search capability that provides an easy way to get answers on the go.
- Mobile Answers Voice Service launched on April 2008 - ChaCha launched its groundbreaking voice-enabled mobile search service, 1-800-2ChaCha
- Scott A. Jones (CEO and Co-Founder) - innovator and entrepreneur who created the #1 voicemail available globally with over a billion subscribers (now owned by Comverse) and who created Gracenote (now owned by Sony), providing the #1 music information database and service accessed over 24 billion times annually, powering services such as Apple’s iTunes.
- Brad Bostic (President and Co-Founder) - entrepreneur and leader of multiple successful web-based technology companies
- Distinguished Board of Directors include Rod Canion (Compaq), Jack Gill (Vanguard Ventures), Morton Meyerson (EDS), and Tom Kelly (Sprint Nextel)
- Backed by prestigious investors Jeff Bezos (Bezos Expeditions), Morton Meyerson, the Simon family (Simon Malls), Jack Gill, Rod Canion – Years of proven investing expertise
- Privately-owned and headquartered in Carmel, Indiana with approximately 75 employees – bringing world-changing technology to the Midwest helping make Indiana one of America’s Top States for Business
- 55,000 active Guides throughout the country - with thousands available online at any time
- On September 17th, 2008 ChaCha announced that it now has more than a million users and has answered more than 27 million queries since it launched its revolutionary mobile answers service in January. This, combined with its quarterly growth rate in Q2, makes ChaCha the fastest growing mobile search service, surpassing both Google and Yahoo in both WAP and text-based search growth rates (according to the latest data from Nielsen Mobile).
- ChaCha was the fastest growing U.S. mobile text-based search service again for the 2nd quarter in a row surpassing Yahoo and on the heels of Google growing market share from seven percent to 28 percent in only 90 days, according to Nielsen Mobile.
