Paris-based mobile IM firm Miyowa has raised about $3.8 million in first round of funding, led by Techfund and Sophia Eurolab.
ACE: Miyowa runs mobile instant messaging services for the likes of MSN Live Messenger in France, Skyrock (a French radio station with a large blogging community), and Silicon Valley-based mobile games developer, Digital Chocolate. It also supports Hotmail, the MSN email service, on the mobilephone.
Miyowa runs an interoperable mobile IM technology called MoveMessenger, which has been implemented on Cellcom (Israel), Cosmote (Greece), Starhub (Singapore), Fareastone (Taiwan), Ten (MVNO) and Bouygues Telecom.