Following closely on the heels of West Coast wins by two other startups with Midwest ties, Call Me Meeting is looking to author another Silicon Prairie success story this week at the Twilio Conference in San Francisco.
Call Me Meeting, which was founded in April at Startup Weekend Kansas City and took second place at the event, is a conference call service that automatically contacts a call’s participants. According to a story posted Tuesday on ProgrammableWeb, Call Me Meeting is one of five finalists pitching at TwilioCon in a competition for funding from Twilio Fund. The fund is designed to encourage developers to use the Twilio API as a platform and was created by a partnership between Twilio and 500 Startups.
Earlier this week, winners of Ad Age‘s Digital West Brand Hacks competition were announced, and Zaarly, a San Francisco-based startup with offices in Kansas City, took the “Social Hack” portion, and Dwolla, based in Des Moines, took the “Mobile Hack” portion, sharing the honor with Placecast.
We’ll have updates soon on Call Me Meeting’s exploits at TwilioCon. But, in the meantime, we have a bit of additional background on the Kansas City-based startup for those who aren’t familiar.
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Pitched by Tim Barnes at Startup Weekend Kansas City, Call Me Meeting was live by the team’s Sunday pitch at the event. Per its website, Call Me Meeting boils conference-calling down to a three-step process:
- Schedule — Use the software you already use to schedule meetings, Outlook, GCal, iCal, OR use our web interface.
- Forget – No need to remember a dial-in number, PIN code, admin code, or any other codes. We take care of the whole process for you.
- Answer — When the time is right, you start your conference call by answering.
