NEW
YORK, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaleyra,
Inc. (NYSE: KLR) (NYSE American: KLR WS) ("Kaleyra" or the
"Company"), an enterprise Communication Platform as a Service
(CPaaS) business, announced today the Company has engaged
international investor relations specialists MZ Group ("MZ") to
lead a comprehensive strategic investor relations and financial
communications program across all key markets.
MZ Group will work closely with Kaleyra management, including
the Company's newly hired, Vice President of Investor Relations,
Colin Gillis, to develop and
implement a comprehensive capital markets strategy designed to
increase the Company's visibility throughout the investment
community. The campaign will highlight how Kaleyra's trusted
enterprise Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) is helping
businesses around the world connect with customers on their
preferred channels from traditional SMS messages to RCS messaging
and video and audio collaboration. Kaleyra has an
enterprise-focused customer base and is experienced in highly
regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare and
transportation.
MZ has developed a distinguished reputation as a premier
resource for institutional investors, brokers, analysts and private
investors. The firm maintains offices worldwide and was recently
ranked No. 7 in the world in business communication.
Shannon Devine, Managing Director
at MZ North America, will advise Kaleyra in all facets of corporate
and financial communications, including the coordination of
roadshows and investment conferences across key cities and building
brand awareness with financial and social media outlets.
Ted Haberfield, Chairman &
President of MZ Group North America, commented, "Kaleyra is at the
forefront of enterprise CPaaS enabling businesses to add real-time
mobile communications channels, tools, solutions, and services to
business applications by deploying application program interfaces
(APIs) or a user-friendly web interface. Kaleyra's solutions enable
its customers to design the perfect communication experience to
keep their audiences engaged with personalized messages, chatbots,
programmable voice services, and more. The company's technology
managed 44.1 billion messages and 5.8 billion voice calls in 2021
safely and securely with over 1,600 operator connections in 190+
countries, including all tier-1 US carriers. Recently reaching a
critical milestone of over 20 million Google Verified Calls managed
through Kaleyra's Voice API in 2022, with over 10 million calls
verified in August alone. The Company's established leadership
position in enterprise CPaaS presents an exciting opportunity, and
we look forward to sharing this with our network of institutional,
family offices and retail investors."
Shannon Devine added, "Kaleyra
has developed a comprehensive communication platform service for
companies that need to embed communications in their business
applications, integrating with the leading helpdesk software,
e-commerce platforms, CRMs, and marketing tools. SMS text messaging
supports transactional messages, one-time-passwords and promotions.
The company's scalable voice API provides automated customer
support over interactive voice recognition, or routes users to the
appropriate agent or salesperson with click-to-call. Kaleyra
customers can also utilize WhatsApp, with its 1.6 billion monthly
users, to deliver enriched media such as images, electronic
tickets, video tutorials, audio files, QR codes, the position of
the closest store, and any sort of documents. Along with its
complete portfolio of products, Kaleyra enables companies to
effectively communicate with customers and receive enhanced
analytics for clear, transparent and actionable insights for their
business."
"With our global recognition for excellent products, customer
service, and security, and partnerships with a host of top-tier
technology brands, we are now recognized among the top five
established leaders in CpaaS on the Competitor Leaderboard produced
by Juniper Research," said Dario
Calogero, Chief Executive Officer of Kaleyra. "We believe
our strength and depth of operator partnerships, segment coverage
and experience in CpaaS service provision, positions us for
innovation and revenue expansion with our existing customers and
meaningful pipeline of new potential customers. Looking ahead, we
are highly focused on executing on our roadmap and we look forward
to working with Shannon and the entire team at MZ Group to
communicate the value of our platform as we build long-term value
for our shareholders."
Colin Gillis Vice President of
Investor Relations at Kaleyra added "Shannon and the MZ team will
be an important asset to leverage in expanding the breadth of our
investor outreach as they share our story with their global
investor network. The depth of their highly experienced IR
professionals will help us improve all facets of our investor
relations efforts. I look forward to working together with Shannon
and her team to create a compelling program that best portrays
Kaleyra to the investment community. As always, I welcome all
investors and potential investors to reach out directly to me. My
direct email is on this press release."
For more information on Kaleyra, please visit the Company's
website at www.kaleyra.com. To schedule a conference call with
management, please email your request to KLR@mzgroup.us or call
Shannon Devine at 203-741-8811.
About MZ Group
MZ North America is the US division of MZ Group, a global leader
in investor relations and corporate communications. MZ provides
innovative, customized services to domestic and multinational
private and public companies across all industries through a
unique, fully-integrated "one-stop-shop" approach. By delivering a
comprehensive suite of products and services through one point of
contact, MZ offers services to all relevant markets geared to
helping our clients build a sustainable public brand. MZ has a
global footprint with offices located in New York, Connecticut, Tampa, Puerto
Rico, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Austin, Denver, San
Diego, Aliso Viejo,
Taipei and São Paulo. For more
information, please visit www.mzgroup.us.
About Kaleyra
Kaleyra, Inc. (NYSE: KLR) (NYSE American: KLR WS) is a global
group providing mobile communication services to financial
institutions, e-commerce players, OTTs, software companies,
logistic enablers, healthcare providers, retailers, and other large
organizations worldwide. Through its proprietary platform and
robust APIs, Kaleyra manages multi-channel integrated communication
services, consisting of messaging, rich messaging and instant
messaging, video, push notifications, e-mail, voice services, and
chatbots. Kaleyra's technology makes it possible to safely and
securely manage billions of messages monthly with over 1,600
operator connections in 190+ countries, including all tier-1 US
carriers. For more information, please visit www.kaleyra.com.
Forward-Looking
Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of U.S. federal securities laws. Such forward-looking
statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding
the financial statements of Kaleyra, its omnichannel and other
product and global customer developments, its expectations,
beliefs, intentions, plans, prospects or strategies regarding the
future revenue (including revenue guidance) and the business plans
of Kaleyra's management team, and the impact of the COVID-19
pandemic, and any anticipated lessening of such impact, and the
broader market volatility and geopolitical and macroeconomic
factors on its business and financial performance. Any statements
contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be
deemed to be forward-looking statements. In addition, any
statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other
characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any
underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words
"anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect,"
"intends," "may," "might," "plan," "possible," "potential,"
"predict," "project," "should," "would" and similar expressions may
identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words
does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. The
forward-looking statements contained in this press release are
based on certain assumptions and analyses made by Kaleyra in light
of its experience and perception of historical trends, current
conditions and expected future developments and their potential
effects on Kaleyra as well as other factors they believe are
appropriate in the circumstances. There can be no assurance that
future developments affecting Kaleyra will be those anticipated.
These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks,
uncertainties (some of which are beyond the control of the parties)
or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance
to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these
forward-looking statements, including the mix of services utilized
by Kaleyra's customers and such customers' needs for these
services, including any variability by geography, market acceptance
of new service offerings, the ability of Kaleyra to expand what it
does for existing customers as well as to add new customers, that
Kaleyra will have sufficient capital to operate as anticipated, and
the impact that the novel coronavirus and the illness, COVID-19,
that it causes, as well as governmental responses to deal with the
spread of this illness and the reopening of economies that have
been closed as part of these responses, and the impact of other
geopolitical and macroeconomic factors such as the war in
Ukraine, may have on Kaleyra's
operations, the demand for Kaleyra's products, global supply chains
and economic activity in general. Should one or more of these risks
or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions being
made prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects
from those projected in these forward-looking statements. We
undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities
laws.
Kaleyra Contacts
Marketing Contacts:
Zephrin
Lasker
Executive Vice President, Marketing & Strategic Alliances
zephrin.lasker@kaleyra.com
Lori Perkins
Senior Director – Marketing and Communications
lori.perkins@kaleyra.com
Investor Contacts:
Colin
Gillis
Vice President of Investor Relations
colin.gillis@kaleyra.com
Shannon Devine or Mark Schwalenberg
MZ North America
203-741-8811
KLR@mzgroup.us
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