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Sheffield tech firms join forces to expand offering

The Curve and Textocracy partner in joint venture

Technical solutions specialist The Curve has entered a joint venture with Textocracy – a company who offer SMS-based consultation services – in a bid to combine and widen each companies’ skillsets and better serve a wider network of businesses.

They will be working together to help securely scale up Textocracy’s service platform which offers a fast, easy, and affordable addition to consultation or feedback processes, and will be making this versatile for a wide range of public and private sector organisations.

The software provides stakeholders a simple, free and anonymous way to send comments to the organisations and is currently already being used by a wide range of audiences including local government, the NHS, community and voluntary groups and small businesses.

Founder and CEO of Textocracy, Elizabeth Shassere, has a background of working in health and local government and will be working with The Curve to identify how their team can successfully work to develop their offering for the public sector.

Commenting on this partnership Elizabeth said: “After launching Textocracy in 2015, I think this is the next appropriate step for the life of the business and I’m really looking forward showing how this collaboration can ultimately benefit both businesses.

“We have been in discussions with The Curve for a number of months and their open-minded approach really stood out to us. They are a high-skilled team who are inclusive which was really important as we don’t come from a technical background, but we know the public sector and the importance of the user’s voice in all services.”

Paul Ridgway CEO of The Curve said: “The service offering that Textocracy has is unique and very valuable on both a local and national scale and could benefit a wide range of organisations.

“We decided to enter this joint venture after recognising that both our team’s backgrounds could help one another to move forward and develop for new audiences.”

James Ridgway CTO of The Curve added: “Working with the team at Textocracy is proving to be very beneficial for everyone involved and we hope that this will be a long-term relationship.”

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