GOGII, Inc. is revolutionizing the way people text by making it possible to reach out to and communicate with as many as 50 people at a time using a single free text message.  The company’s flagship nexgen texting application, textPlus, now lets users create “personal communities” that can be reached in a moment’s notice via text. 

iPhone and iPod touch users can download the free textPlus 2.1 app from the Apple App Store, then become “community managers” by creating names for their various groups within the app.  A community manager can invite up to 50 members to join a group (members don’t need to have the app or use an iPhone – they simply need to have a phone that is text-enabled), and send one text to the entire community name to initiate a conversation.  In textPlus’s chatroom-like environment, everyone in the group receives the text and everyone sees all the replies. Last week, GOGII, Inc. announced a US$8.2 million Series B round of funding from Matrix Partners and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.