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GNum was established in 2014, under a commercial spinoff of GlobalRoam Group Limited. The company aims to provide seamless communication tools that work across technological and geographical boundaries to bring people closer together. Equipped with a patent pending personalized URL calling solution, GNum collaborates with telecommunication companies to provide calls while protecting the privacy of users. Callers from various location in the world are able to call GNum users for free via their personalised URLs.

On 20th October, 2014, GNum secured a S$7 million seed fund investment by private equity firm Tembusu Partners. The company aim to utilize the funds to acquire related technologies and as working capital to prepare for a nationwide deployment in Singapore. GNum has intentions to launch in various parts of the Southeast Asia such as Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines, eventually entering global markets like United States, China, Hong Kong, India and Australia.

Features & Functionality
Instead of dialing a number, GNum enabled individuals and enterprises to be contacted through their personal name/URLs or brand. These can be embedded in the form of hyperlink in email signature, documents, websites and social media sites. Through GNum, users are able to mask their contact number but remain contacted despite changing their contact numbers. GNum also allow calls to be made from smartphones to featured phone, routed from VoIP to GSM gateway.