Renzoo

Sector: Mobile Applications, Messaging

Headquarters: London, U.K.

Management: Serial entrepreneur Denis Kotlar is CEO.

Funding: Seed funded.

Secret Sauce: Renzoo makes it possible to access all your messages–e-mail from several accounts as well as voicemail left in different mailboxes (with RSS and fax capabilities in the works)–via your WAP-enabled mobile phone. When you get a message, Renzoo sends you an SMS alert, so you can go listen to it or read it via your phone’s browser or your computer. With the RenzooPush feature, you can even send e-mails to your contacts’ WAP-enabled mobile phones, whether or not they’re Renzoo users. The advantages: you’re not limited by the 140-character limit of an SMS, and get delivery confirmation once recipients have read the e-mail.

Renzoo is still in beta, and exists in a free as well as premium versions. It offers credits (that can be applied to the cost of sending messages via Renzoo) if your contacts accept your invitation to sign up for the service. Although parts of the website seem written in ESL, Renzoo’s overall aims appear clear. By making the service accessible around the world, the company can take advantage of mobile users’ interest in integrated voicemail access–likely to keep increasing, with VoIP on the rise–and hopes to profit by offering mobile users BlackBerry-like (or lite?) functionality for less.

Seen and Heard: Koolweb users enthuse “Excellent alternative to BlackBerry service if you don’t need to have every single email in your pocket!”