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Description
Pinnatta is a messaging application for mobile devices, such as smartphones. Users select "Pinnatta messages" among a large number of pre-existing templates, personalize them and send them. Pinnatta messages, unlike instant messaging services or SMS, have multimedia and interactive characteristics. Pinnatta is available for iPhone and Android devices.

Features
Pinnatta messages have multimedia characteristics and are often interactive. Users receive messages that have sound, graphics and respond in an interactive manner such as touch screen input, device motion, GPS, microphone input etc. Pinnatta messages range from wrappers, which in effect simply provide a visually interesting way to embed and communicate a message to elaborate mini-games and experiences. Users download the application, sign up, and then can send Pinnatta messages to friends. Incoming messages notifications appear on the streamline, the home screen of the application. When users send a message they first select a message type amongst available Pinnatta messages. Pinnatta messages are selected from occasion based categories but are also searchable based on tags. Pinnatta message templates are regularly updated and users are notified of the availability of new message templates to send. Users can preview Pinnatta messages and then personalize them. Interactive elements exist in many Pinnatta message and are usually personizable allowing for a message to be embedded. Optionally, users can add a card with a plain text message to accompany each Pinnatta message. Recipients are selected either from the contacts list of their device or friends from their Facebook network. In both cases Pinnatta asks permission to access these contacts. If the recipient has Pinnatta on his device the message is sent, if not, the application asks the user to invite the recipient to add Pinnatta.

History
Pinnatta was launched in limited beta mode in December 2011 -as gipht.me - for iOS only. Completing the Beta process the platform was renamed as Pinnatta and launched July 14th 2012. Pinnatta is developed by gipht.me Inc. a California based company that consists of 6 Greek and Greek-American founders with part of the development taking place in Athens, Greece.

Funding
Seed round investment for the company came from a variety of investors including i-free - a Russian mobile services company, Cherubic -a Chinese Angel investment company, and Silicon Valley based Angels. A further Bridging round was concluded in July 2012 involving angel investors.