Talk360

Netherlands - Amsterdam, North Holland

• 04/10/2022
• Seed
• $3,000,000

At Talk360, we believe that everyone in the world should be able to connect to friends and family. That’s why we have built a localized, easy-to-use, and reliable product for underserviced communities.

Talk360 is the leading international voice calling app allowing affordable and reliable international calls to any offline landline or mobile phone in the world. As the call receiver does not need internet, the Talk360 app, or a smartphone, this solution was able to connect 2 million people in 2021, no matter where they were located or whether they had internet access.

Over 41% of the world doesn’t have a reliable internet connection. The most heavily hit by this are underserviced communities in Africa. We solve this issue by offering the ability to call any online or offline number. Underserviced communities have no access to online banking or credit cards, as payment culture is diverse and scattered with cash and different wallets & cards. That’s why Talk360 supports over 60 supported payment systems, 40 currencies, and 1.25 million cash points of sale in emerging countries.

Talk360 is a purpose-driven scaleup that was founded in 2016 by Hans Osnabrugge, Dean Hiine, and Jorne Schamp. In 2021, Talk360 was selected for the Rise Programme by Techleap.nl as a leader in offering connectivity solutions for underserviced communities.

Furthermore, we are currently building the world’s first single payment platform that combines all local African currencies and payment methods, thus furthering Africa’s connection to the world and giving its people access to international paid services.

Operating in The Netherlands, South Africa, and India (with more offices coming soon), Talk360 is dedicated to connecting lives and bridging distance by offering reliable calling quality through a simple app that accommodates one essential need: connection.

Talk360: Connecting lives. Bridging distance.

Check out our LinkedIn careers page to join our team.

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Dean HiineCo Founder

South Africa - City of Johannesburg, Gauteng,

Dean is a passionate venture builder with a vision to positively impact Africa. To achieve this, he is a co-founder of Talk360 and Brooklyn Ventures Africa, and is also the Managing Director of Africa for Talk360. Before joining Talk360, Dean was involved in many innovations in the telecoms and broadband spaces in the Gauteng provinces of South Africa.

Dean believes that impact should be at the core of any company, and thus strives to uplift communities in which his companies operate. At Talk360, he can do this on two fronts; firstly,
the international calling app itself helps individuals stay in more frequent contact with friends and family abroad due to the more affordable and accessible nature of the product; secondly, by stimulating additional income for underserviced communities.

Dean was born in Limpopo and grew up in Pretoria. He has a Diploma in Information Technology from ML Sultan, now Durban University of Technology. As a seasoned African tech-entrepreneur Dean has several advisory board positions.

You can contact Dean for Pan-African venture building opportunities, scale-up advice and, most importantly, joining the mission of Talk360 in Africa as a partner or employee

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-hiine-99b66a71/