Boxer

News and product updates about your new favorite iPhone mail app, Boxer! You can also find us at: getboxer.com and @boxer on Twitter.

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Announcing Our Latest Funding

Today is a big day over at Boxer HQ, we just secured $3 million in financing led by Silicon Valley-based technology investor, Sutter Hill Ventures. If you've been following us for a few months, you already know that Boxer’s strength lies in its ability to extend the mobile mail experience with a great interface and integrations to cloud services like Box, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Our belief that extending beyond the primitive experiences provided by stock email apps is just the beginning and this financing will help us execute on our strategy. As a result, look for even more integrations to be announced in the coming months. At Boxer we already have a team filled with proven entrepreneurs and industry veterans as advisors and co-workers, however, we're also announcing that Sam Pullara of Sutter Hill Ventures has joined our board of directors. We look forward to Sam's input as he was formerly in key engineering roles at companies such as Twitter, Yahoo and BEA Systems. As always, thank you for your support. For us mobile email has long been the killer application for smartphones and Boxer's mission is to unlock its potential by providing an open platform for innovation. Thanks for joining us on the way to building that platform.

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Austin startup Boxer raises $3 million dollar seed round led by Sutter Hill Ventures to expand their mobile email platform that just works.

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Slick mobile email app Boxer closes $3M

Boxer, a mobile email client for iOS, just finalized a $3 million round of funding, the startup revealed to VentureBeat today. Boxer's app is built for people who have high volume inboxes. It allow...

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Upstart email app Boxer secures $3M to challenge incumbent Mailbox

Email sorting application Boxer may have gotten less buzz than its competitor Mailbox, but that doesn't mean it's out of the running. Today the company announced that it raised a $3 million seed ro...

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Boxer Announces Integration with Box OneCloud

AUSTIN, Texas—August 20, 2013—Boxer, the next generation mobile inbox, today announces another milestone in its technology roadmap with the integration of Box. Available in Box OneCloud, an ecosystem of integrated mobile apps, Boxer will allow more than 15 million Box users to interact with files stored in their Box accounts directly from their mobile email. The integration consists of a simple user interface that enables users to quickly attach files from Box to email messages.

While the functionality of adding attachments to emails is commonplace on desktop and web mail applications, performing the same action with mobile email has traditionally been a challenge. Cloud collaboration products like Box allow users to store important documents in a central repository that they can access anywhere. Providing access to these documents in the context of mobile email means that they can be quickly shared and discussed even while users are away from their desks.

“Our goal at Boxer is to provide a revolutionary inbox experience that allows people to get things done in email, even when they are away from their desks,” said Andrew Eye, CEO and Founder of Boxer. “Box helps us fill a major gap in traditional mobile email by allowing users to quickly share documents of all kinds - from proposals and sales quotes to photos and soccer schedules.”  

Box is the latest in a list of cloud services Boxer has integrated to the mobile inbox. With support for Facebook, LinkedIn, and other cloud services across all the major email providers including Microsoft Outlook & Exchange, Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud and more - Boxer stands out as the most highly integrated mobile email experience available.  

About Boxer

Boxer is building the next generation mobile inbox. Whether you let your inbox burst at the seams or diligently file things away, you’ll love how Boxer helps you stay on top of email while on the go.  For more information, please visit http://www.getboxer.com/ and download Boxer in the Apple iStore.

Media Contact:

Ethan Parker Treble Public Relations [phone] [email protected]

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Boxer Hires Former Zynga Product Lead

Austin Startup Continues to Attract Premium Talent to Solve Mobile Email Problem

AUSTIN, Texas—August 15, 2013—Boxer, the next generation mobile inbox, today announced the hiring of Timothy Sullivan as Vice President of Product. With a proven track record of delivering mobile products to tens of millions of customers, Sullivan will be responsible for Boxer’s product strategy and all areas related to the growth of Boxer’s mobile user base. Following the acquisition of his last company (Market Zero) by Zynga, Sullivan oversaw product teams on both web and mobile for the gaming giant.

“Tim’s hiring is another step towards our goal of attracting and hiring the most talented and proven professionals in the mobile software industry.” said Andrew Eye, CEO and Co-Founder of Boxer. “We are thrilled to add Tim to our rapidly growing team.”

With the addition of Sullivan, Boxer has assembled a world-class executive team of proven entrepreneurs. Sullivan joins fellow Austin entrepreneurs Boxer Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Andrew Eye (former Founder & COO at Ciphent - Inc. 500 #16) as well as Boxer VP of Engineering Ian Ragsdale (former CTO at Skylist).

“Email continues to be a pain point for the modern workforce,” said Rick Timmins, Boxer investor and former director of Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN). “A sure endorsement of Boxer’s vision and its technology is the ability to secure the best talent on the market. The hiring of Mr. Sullivan represents a significant move forward for Boxer in solving the challenges associated with mobile email.”

Mobile email apps remain first generation products designed as direct translations of their desktop counterparts. The next generation of mobile software products are being built from a mobile-first perspective - maximizing their utility for an increasingly mobile workforce.  

“The opportunity to work on such an important problem was a strong motivation for me,” said Sullivan. “After a few conversations with the Boxer team, I knew this was an opportunity I had to take - and I’m thrilled to be working with such a great group of people.”

About Boxer

Boxer is building the next generation mobile inbox. Whether you let your inbox burst at the seams or diligently file things away, you’ll love how Boxer helps you stay on top of email while on the go.  For more information, please visit http://www.getboxer.com/ and download Boxer at the Apple iStore.

Media Contact:

Ethan Parker Treble Public Relations [phone] [email protected]

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Reporters say the nicest things about Boxer

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It hasn't been even a week yet since we showed the world the first glimpse of Boxer yet, some of our friends in the press said some nice things. Here are a few of them:

"The quick replies are pretty fantastic." - Mat Honan for WIRED

" One advantage of Boxer is that it works with Gmail, Exchange, Yahoo, AOL Mail, iCloud and others at launch."- Liz Gannes for AllThingsD

"Boxer has a whole set of tools for dealing with emails. You can easily archive with a swipe, send instant auto responses, add emails to a to-do list, and 'like' incoming messages so people know you saw it without requiring an actual response." - Thorin Klosowski for Lifehacker

"Those making the switch from Apple's traditional Mail or Gmail apps will have fun playing with the gesture-based options and cataloging messages in a whole new way." -  Stephanie Mlot for PC Mag

"One other big advantage is that Boxer provides detailed profiles of your contacts, integrating information from your Contact Address Book, as well as Facebook or LinkedIn if you’ve connected accounts from those networks." - Ryan Lawler for Techcrunch

"They’ve also integrated a favorites list and the ability to call up all email exchanges between you and another person with a click of a button. It’s almost like a mobile email based CRM."- Nibletz

""The app is beautifully designed and since its free now, it's definitely worth a download." - Business Insider

"This is great for users who have been looking for the singular email app that can unify work and personal accounts."- Nick Statt for ReadWrite

"This mail client is fast and efficient, and very smartly designed." - Dave Johnson for CBS Moneywatch

We're hard at work already on a load of improvements and even a few new features. We want to earn that spot on your iPhone Home Screen so let us know if you run into any issues or if you have any suggestions for us at support.getboxer.com. Thanks!

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Announcing Boxer for iPhone

At Boxer, we believe email isn't broken, it's just unfair. It's a to-do list that anyone can add a task to. How is that fair? We thought about that for a while and dreamed up a few other ways we could make the best mobile mail experience for the iPhone and created Boxer to put you back in control.

Boxer is the first email client to include the ability to quickly triage your inbox, respond quickly through simple gestures as well as allow for management of tasks and items on your to-do list.

Boxer is the best of your favorite mail features with some major improvements to help you get things done on the go. It's an app available to download through the Apple iTunes App Store that can replace your existing mail app. Boxer is currently free in the App Store until we hit 100,000 downloads and then the price will go back to $4.99. Here are a few things Boxer adds:

Powerful swipe gestures to help triage, respond and manage on-the-go

Inline profile images & helpful contact cards

Dropbox integration for adding files to email from the cloud

Adds elements of social tools to email to make email more fun and like-able again THAT'S RIGHT, WE ADDED A LIKE BUTTON TO EMAIL!

All that and it works with all your existing email accounts including Gmail, Google Apps, Exchange, Yahoo, Hotmail/Outlook, iCloud, AOL mail and more on the way

We could tell you more or you could download Boxer and start liking email again. While we have loads of amazing features we built Boxer for busy people from all walks of life. Give it a try and let us know what you think. We're @boxer on Twitter and you can always find help over at http://support.getboxer.com. 

- The Boxer Team