Jangl offers its customers the ability to talk and text safely with anonymity. This includes online dating sites, social networking sites, classified ad sites, auction sites, blogs, or any other place where there is an online communication

Communication

Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...

 happening. They have teamed up with Facebook

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

, Bebo

Bebo

Bebo is a social networking website launched in July 2005. It is currently owned and operated by Criterion Capital Partners after taking over from AOL in June 2010....

, Match.com

Match.com

Match.com is an online dating company which reportedly has more than 20 million members, made up of a 49/51 male/female ratio, and Web sites serving 25 countries in more than 8 different languages. Its headquarters are in Dallas, Texas and the company also has offices in West Hollywood, Tokyo, Rio,...

, Friendster

Friendster

Friendster is a social gaming site that is based in Malaysia, KL. The company now operates mainly from the three Asian countries namely in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore....

, AdultFriendFinder, Tagged, PlentyOfFish

PlentyofFish

PlentyofFish is an online dating site, popular primarily in Canada, the UK, Australia and the United States. The service, based in Canada, generates revenue through advertising. While it is free to use, the site recently started charging for some services, such as message tracking. Members pay for...

 and Fubar

Fubar (social networking site)

fubar is a social network launched in June–September 2005 as the first "online bar". In October 2007, they teamed up with Jangl to provide their members with the ability to call other members anonymously....

 to market and provide applications enabling text messaging

Text messaging

Text messaging, or texting, refers to the exchange of brief written text messages between fixed-line phone or mobile phone and fixed or portable devices over a network...

, voice, and voicemail

Voicemail

Voicemail is a computer based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to individuals, organizations, products and services, using an ordinary telephone...

for members of those communities. They have raised a total of $9 million in two rounds of funding.
Callers go to the Jangl website and key in the person they want to reach Jangl ID. To be accepted, callers have to provide enough personal information so that the system can connect them with that caller. The call then goes through to your number, or they can record a voice mail. The user doesn’t need to have a Jangl account to use this service. They can also enter the email address of the person they want to contact and leave a voice mail for that person to call them back.

Statistics

Jangl is in around 150 countries. It also is available in over 80 million online profiles.

Awards

Supernova 2007 Connected Innovator


2007 Red Herring 100 North American winner


AlwaysOn 100 nominee



The Jangl brand was acquired by Live Universe in May 2008.