Author Archives: Kyle Kelly-Yahner

Your Tutor Is One Call Away: Help Hub Connects Students and Tutors Via Twilio Voice

At 14 years old, Miguel Kudry (pictured right) started building apps. Now at age 20, he’s launched his second company, Help Hub, a new social platform that connects students with tutors via Twilio Voice. I can’t exactly picture Miguel needing … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on May 1, 2013 Tagged , , ,

Twilio Fund Europe Deadline Extended to May 6 – Apply Now

Ahoy! We’ve extended the deadline for submissions to our 500 Startups backed micro fund, Twilio Fund Europe to May 6th 11:59 GMT. Building the future of communications isn’t easy, so we figured a few more days to work on your … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 30, 2013 Tagged , , ,

CallTask Helps You Get The Most Out Of Your Call With Twilio

CEO Joel Gross built CallTask as a training tool for his sales team at Coalition Technologies. He used Twilio to record sales calls that his team could download and listen to when on-boarding a new salesperson. Pretty soon, CallTask was … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 29, 2013 Tagged , , ,

Win an Atomic Getaway to Visit the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

A team of the worlds brightest scientists from over 100 countries are working to simulate the Big Bang in a giant 17 mile long hadron collider, buried 574 feet below the earth. Why are they doing this? To prove the … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 26, 2013 Tagged , , , , ,

Mobile Commons Connects Citizens to Senators with Twilio

Mobile Commons is giving citizens the communication tools they need to spark political action. They’re powering the communication technology behind Mayors Against Illegal Guns’ (MAIG) campaign to pass more comprehensive gun laws. Mobile Commons and MAIG’s joint effort called, Demand … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 25, 2013 Tagged , , , ,

HomeJoy Bringing Everyone Clean and Happy Homes, Powered by Twilio

When clutter inspires a startup, you get HomeJoy. Founding a startup from your home can get messy. For Adora Cheung and her brother Aaron, the mess they accumulated while working on one startup actually inspired them to found another Homejoy … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 24, 2013 Tagged , , , ,

RETZ Brings Telephony To The Theatre with Twilio

Typically, the  telephone is the enemy of live theater. When someone’s phone rings in the middle of a climatic scene, it distracts the audience and disrupts the story. However, one U.K. based theatre troupe, RETZ, is encouraging audience members to … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 19, 2013 Tagged , , , ,

Twilio Fund Winner Profile: Babelverse Bridges Language Barriers with Twilio

Building Around The Language Barrier Phrasebooks, calls to friends who could act as language interpreters, and Google translate queries weren’t cutting it while developers Mayel and Josef were travelling abroad. The language barrier was getting the best of them and … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 18, 2013 Tagged , , ,

SocialSamba Builds New Avenues for Storytelling w/ Twilio

During SxSW I got a text from The Mad Hatter. “Next time I yell ‘I am a golden god!’ and jump into a pool, I’m checking my pockets so my cell doesn’t drown in that pool drool,’” he wrote. As … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 17, 2013 Tagged , , ,