<p>Ten years after the launch of Skype and the company's alumni are moving on to ever more interesting things. Fleep is the latest of these, an iOS app and web-based messaging tool.</p><p>Photo by Tsahi Levent-Levi on Flickr. Some rights reserved.</p><p>It's funded by Jaan Tallinn and Priit Kasesalu, two of Skype's founding engineers who invested 225,000 in the company.</p><p>Chief executive Henn Ruukel, part of the Estonian team, is also a comer Skyper and worked at Elisa, the Finnish telco. Tallinn said in a release that Fleep is supposed to fill the gaps between email and IM applications. "It takes email's ability to contact anyone and marries it with real-time messaging."</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/aug/29/fleep-email-messaging-app">Keep reading...</a></p>