RingCentral launches nationwide availability for local telephone numbers across the U.S. Local number availability is a key requirement for businesses looking to establish a regional presence and boost customer loyalty. RingCentral automatically ties a company's multiple nationwide local numbers into a single enterprise class hosted business service to efficiently link all its customers to its employees.

RingCentral has closed its series B funding, raising $12 million from new lead investors DAG Ventures and NCD Investors and returning investors Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures. RingCentral also announced that it surpassed 50,000 active customer accounts, doubling its customer base in one year. Accounts range from one to many subscribers, typically in small businesses with 20 or fewer employees.

The company will use the new funding to enhance its products and services, build new partnerships and distribution channels and increase awareness among its large and growing base of small business customers.

PC Magazine selected RingCentral DigitalLine for its highest editorial honor, the Editors’ Choice Award. A recent roundup review of VoIP services rated RingCentral’s solution as an attractive, sophisticated and cost-effective solution for small businesses. Favored for its price, sophisticated suite of PBX features and quick implementation and ease of use, RingCentral DigitalLine received a four star rating in PC Magazine’s VoIP roundup review in January, 2008.

Senior PC Magazine reviewer Oliver Rist wrote “On IP telephony smarts and breadth of features, RingCentral outshines both Avaya/Netgear and Microsoft.” Rist continued, “Overall, the breadth of PBX-style features and the ease of use of the interface make RingCentral DigitalLine VoIP Service a highly attractive option for smaller businesses.”

RingCentral launches DigitalLine a VoIP service that adds the convenience and cost savings of Internet-based telephony to RingCentral’s virtual phone system for small businesses. In contrast to stand-alone VoIP services that focus simply on low-cost calling, RingCentral uses VoIP to add value and utility to small business communications. DigitalLine is seamlessly integrated into RingCentral’s robust hosted phone and fax service, allowing customers to place and receive calls using a broadband Internet connection. With DigitalLine, RingCentral delivers a complete hosted PBX solution for small businesses. RingCentral gives customers the ability to use a mix of traditional land line, mobile and VoIP communications to place and receive calls. With RingCentral, small businesses and mobile professionals can interact with customers more professionally, using all the features of a big company phone system at a fraction of the cost and all under a single phone bill.