Kaleyra, a provider of messaging services for banks, SME, and large enterprises, has agreed to acquire US cloud communications company Hook Mobile. The terms of the deal remain undisclosed.

Formed out of a merger between Italian messaging services provider Ubiquity and Indian cloud communications platform Solutions Infini, Kaleyra offers communications services for customers in 200 countries around the world. Meanwhile, Hook Mobile provides a communications platform as a service (CPaas) to clients worldwide, with particular interests in North, Central, and South American markets. It reaches over 50 countries with its virtual local numbers, which are designed to forward calls to other phone lines without being linked to an actual phone line.

The acquisition will increase Kaleyra’s presence across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, bringing together a combined revenue of over $100m and a team of more than 200 people across 12 locations.

“This transaction is a step forward in our aspiration to go global. Hook Mobile is a very innovative company with expertise in virtual local number services,” said Dario Calogero, CEO at Kaleyra. “With Hook Mobile’s offerings added to our portfolio, Kaleyra will now be active in the US and LATAM markets, which have very specific requirements and a strategic focus for Kaleyra Group.”

Terry Hsiao, chairman at Hook Mobile, added: “We are very pleased to join such an impressive global player as Kaleyra. This acquisition enables us to vastly enhance our service capabilities in the areas of banking and a multitude of specific enterprise-based solutions while enabling us to speed up our roll out of virtual local number services worldwide.”