Boulder, CO – September 3, 2019 – Voyant, a leading UCaaS and CPaaS service provider to businesses, today announced the acquisition of Acrobits, the market leader of mobile communication apps based in Prague, Czech Republic. Acrobits’ portfolio includes mobile communication softphones for smartphones, WebRTC clients for browsers, and software development kits (SDKs) for developers. Acrobits has tens of millions of softphone endpoints deployed across a broad customer base in the EU, the United States and more than 70 other countries. Acrobits’ software ecosystem provides mobile solutions enabling voice, text and video communication to global enterprises, service providers, MVNOs and software developers.
The Acrobits acquisition accelerates Voyant’s vision to enable smart and intuitive business communication services available anywhere on any device. The combined company will offer a more tightly integrated mobile user experience for Voyant’s UCaaS customers while extending Voyant’s CPaaS offerings by including Acrobits’ fully programmable mobile client with built-in support for prominent platforms including Cisco’s BroadSoft, NetSapiens, Asterisk, FreeSWITCH and others.
“We are extremely pleased to welcome the highly skilled Acrobits’ team to Voyant. Our combined team will more effectively meet our evolving business and service provider customer needs through tight integration of the mobile app experience with Voyant’s cloud-based UCaaS service offering and our tier 1 carrier voice network,” said Justin Nelson, Voyant’s president.
“Acrobits’ mobile communication SDK also further emboldens Voyant’s CPaaS strategy to meet our developer partner needs who are looking to integrate mobile communication services via APIs into their communication services or customer engagement strategies.”
“On behalf of Acrobits, we are excited to become an integral part of Voyant,” said Jiri Kral, Acrobits’ CEO. “We share the same vision and values with Voyant and we look forward to expanding the reach of our world-class communication software products with Voyant’s growing customer base.”
The Acrobits’ acquisition was completed on Friday, August 30, 2019. Voyant and Acrobits will immediately begin to work together to ensure a smooth transition for Acrobits’ employees and customers. Voyant will maintain Acrobits’ presence in Prague.
Voyant is an industry leading UCaaS and CPaaS service provider with the largest tier 1 voice network in the United States. Voyant offers a broad portfolio of API-enabled business communication services including unified communications, SIP trunking, messaging, fax and SD-WAN data services on top of our carrier network that serves 10,500 on-net rate centers reaching nearly 90% of the U.S. population. Voyant is privately held by GTCR and can be found at www.voyant.com.
Since 2008 Acrobits has worked with businesses to develop high-quality SIP clients for Android, iOS and desktop. Our powerful, brandable, unified communications client and cloud softphone SDK are available to customers around the world. Acrobits removes the headache of managing app store deployments so its customers can focus on their business. Acrobits has a long history of innovation with their Cloud Softphone, Acrobits Softphone, Groundwire and developer-friendly SDK. Acrobits can be found at www.acrobits.net.
Jan Ritter
[email protected]
Rafael Torreblanca
[email protected]
The history of VoIP is full of clever hacks. Solutions that started as stopgaps, even kludges, often ended up becoming the standard way of doing things. One of the best examples is push notifications for incoming calls on softphones. What began as a workaround has become the only accepted method on mobile platforms. And Acrobits […]
For many small and medium-sized businesses, the traditional PBX (Private Branch Exchange) phone system has long been the backbone of daily communication. As remote work becomes the norm and digital transformation accelerates, these hardware-bound systems are increasingly feeling like a bottleneck: they are costly to maintain, inflexible, and ill-suited for modern workflows. If you’re an […]
Android’s greatest strength, its openness and vast device diversity, has also created its most persistent challenge for developers: fragmentation. While Apple’s iOS universe is carefully curated, Android is free to roam across more than 20,000 device types. This means every launch is met by confronting a maze of device-specific quirks, platform evolutions, and new compliance […]
Business communication did not jump from desk phones to cloud apps overnight. It moved step by step as engineers pushed voice from dedicated copper into shared data networks, then from hardware into software. That path explains why softphones make sense now, and why so many teams are replacing desk hardware with apps. Rising maintenance bills, […]
