Pulse Mobile, one of the leading providers of user-generated mobile messaging and entertainment services, today announced that it has received $7M in a Series B funding from an international consortium of investors including Anthem Venture Partners, Draper Associates, Shea Ventures, Hikari Tsushin Group in Japan, and several other Asian and European investors.
Pulse Mobile is a leading provider of multimedia messaging and user-generated content creation technologies for mobile and web applications. The Company’s patented Veepers™ Content Engine (VCE) platform automatically transforms static two-dimensional (2D) facial images into animated three-dimensional (3D) characters with synchronized audio - either recorded or via text-to-speech. VCE is also a powerful personalization engine for user-generated imaging and video entertainment services including animated picture messages, personalized mobile wallpaper, video ringtones, and much more.

Pulse Mobile lies at the junction of off deck and on deck as their solutions allow users to generate content themselves. Much of this content is generated via the web as shown in the following diagram :

One of the investors had this to say :“Pulse has incredibly engaging solutions that enable viral mobile messaging.� said Tim Draper, Managing Partner of Draper, Fisher Jurvetson. “Not only are these solutions appropriate for mobile subscribers, but they also show tremendous promise for Web-based community services where personalization needs abound.�