CallApp is a

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offering

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and call recording. It gives background information about the entities behind incoming or outgoing calls by utilizing the user's community-generated content and

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History

CallApp was invented and founded in 2011, in Tel Aviv, Israel by its former CEO, Oded Volovitz and current CEO, Amit On.Goldenberg, Roy (19 November 2012)
Caller ID: CallApp provides extensive information about incoming calls
Globes. raising $1 million in seed investment. It was initially introduced publicly at the TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2012, where it launched its application for

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, at the DEMO conference, and at the

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. It won the Geek Award for the fledgling start-up of the year 2012. In 2014, the company raised $4 million from the angel investors Saar Wilf and Moshe Lichtman and from Giza and Susquehanna venture capital funds. Amit On was named the company's CEO in 2014, CallApp had five million users along with 50,000 daily downloads, making it one of the 100 leading apps on

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. As of February 2021, it has over 100 million users.

Features

CallApp provides

, which gives the users the means to identify

telemarketing Telemarketing (sometimes known as inside sales, or telesales in the UK and Ireland) is a method of direct marketing in which a salesperson solicits prospective customers to buy products or services, either over the phone or through a subseque ...

, spammers and robocall numbers, and enables

and

blacklisting Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list. If someone is on a blacklist, ...

unsolicited callers. The app provides the user with real-time information about the entities behind incoming or outgoing calls by utilizing info that people and businesses share about themselves all over the web along with communications that CallApp community decides to share. The app synchronizes the user email and calendar, shows mutual contacts, and includes business information. It also offers call recording,

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, reverse telephone directory, private browsing, call reminder and car mode, as well as paid upgrade options.App features
CallApp.

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External links

CallApp Homepage
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