Thinking Phone, Seeing Big Opportunity in Cloud Communications, Is Amping Up Headcount

can use all offerings that go into the platform, or only pieces of it, depending on their needs.

Beyond phone tracking and analytics, the Thinking Phone platform also offers video conferencing. One law firm customer of Thinking Phone was able to cut a staffer who had formerly had a full time job facilitating video conferencing among different offices. Healthcare firms, medical technology developers, and financial services firms are also big markets using the Thinking Phone software.

The company has helped one corporate customer gain a better portal into the activities of its manufacturing facility continents away, according to Kokinos. “The team can work directly with people on the manufacturing floor,” he says. “Because they’ll be able to collaborate more readily, they’re hoping to shave months” off product development.

Thinking Phone also boasts of slicing travel costs for customers who use the technology for videoconferencing rather than flying employees out for site visits. “Telepresence and videoconferencing gets people off planes,” says Kokinos.

Thinking Phone, a 50-person company, has been doubling in headcount year over year for the past few years, and looks to have 80 employees by the end of this year, he says. Thinking Phone raised $1.7 million last year from Boston investment bank Capstone Partners, it’s first outside funding since launching in 2005.

“There’s tremendous opportunity in the unified communication space in general,” says Kokinos. “We see growth happening in the cloud.”

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.