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About MessageBird Stock
MessageBird is on a mission to modernize and simplify the overcomplicated space of customer communication. As the only leading cloud communications platform with its own telecommunications carrier infrastructure, MessageBird connects over 15,000 enterprises to their global customers via the fastest and most reliable SMS, Voice and Chat APIs in the world. Today MessageBird is powered by a world-class team of over 20 nationalities from offices in Amsterdam, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, London, Hamburg, and Shanghai. In October 2017 MessageBird announced a $60M Series A funding led by Accel, marking the largest Series A raised by any European software company or Y Combinator graduate to date.
Investors
Atomico
MessageBird, Attentive, Graphcore, PsiQuantum, MasterClass, Lime, Gympass, Clutter, Omio, Automile
BlackRock
Databricks, Rivian, View, Scopely, Relativity Space, Snyk, Jawbone, MessageBird, DataRobot, SambaNova Systems
Bonnier Ventures
Eurazeo
Glynn Capital Management
Palantir Technologies, Compass, Dropbox, MessageBird, DataRobot, Bolt Financial, Gusto, Sysdig, Postmates, Domo
Longbow Capital
Mousse Partners
NewView Capital
Scopely, MessageBird, Forter, Course Hero, Human Interest, MindTickle, ClearMotion, SmartDrive Systems, Reltio, Heap
Owl Rock Capital Partners
Bolt, MessageBird, Exabeam, Illumio, Arctic Wolf, Remitly, Algolia, CircleCI, Nylas, Split Software
Spark Capital
Anduril Industries, Slack, Affirm, MessageBird, Discord, Rapyd, Plaid, Cybereason, Plume Design, Deel
Tiger Global Management
Flipkart, Delhivery, Ather Energy, Databricks, Grab, Chime, Ola, Quikr, Palantir Technologies, CoinSwitch Kuber
Funding History
August 2016 | $120K |
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October 2017 | $60.0M |
February 2019 | $40.0M |
October 2020 | $200M |
April 2021 | $800M |
Management
Chief Executive Officer
Robert Vis
Chief Financial Officer
Michael Bannon
Chief Technology Officer
Dana Majid
Press
bit - Nov, 30 2022
Amsterdam’s MessageBird lays off 31% workforce amid ‘uncertain economy’: Know moretech - Nov, 29 2022
MessageBird goes for a smaller nest, lets go of almost a third of its staffnews - Jun, 23 2022
Accel’s Deal Size Shrinks As Venture Market Pullback Continuessiliconcanals - Feb, 7 2022
Amsterdam-based MessageBird acquires bird.com domain, reportedly for €8.7Mtech - Feb, 4 2022
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s a bird.com domain name sale! MessageBird outbids micromobility company Birdift - Jul, 17 2021
Shaping the Future: Why Tech Lawyers Are Flocking to Startup GC Rolesnews - Jul, 15 2021
European Startups Got A Bigger Share Of Record Global VC Invested In H1 2021bizjournals - Jun, 26 2021
Best in Tech Awards 2021bannederland - Jun, 2 2021
View the Venture Capital Innovation Top 10 heretrib - Apr, 29 2021
MessageBird Raises $800 Million, Buys U.S. Startup SparkPostTechCrunch - Apr, 28 2021
MessageBird acquires SparkPost for $600M using $800M Series C extensionsiliconrepublic - Apr, 28 2021
MessageBird extends Series C round to $1bn as it expands in the USwsj - Apr, 28 2021
MessageBird Investors Inject $1 Billion to Help Finance U.S. Expansiontech - Mar, 30 2021
Amsterdam-based cloud comms platform MessageBird feeds on 24sessions and Atlanta-based Hull.ioTechCrunch - Mar, 30 2021
MessageBird acquires 24sessions to bring video to its ‘omnichannel’ platformbit - Mar, 30 2021
Amsterdam-based MessageBird acquires 24sessions to add video to its omnichannel offering; also acquires Hullnews - Jan, 21 2021
European VC Report 2020: Strong Fourth Quarter Closes Out 2020uktech - Dec, 17 2020
Europe’s Twilio rival and almost ‘IPO-ready’ MessageBird acquires London notifications startup Pusher for £26M, here’s why?eu-startups - Dec, 16 2020
Amsterdam-based MessageBird announces €28.6 million Pusher acquisition, to boost its cloud communications portfolioTechCrunch - Dec, 16 2020
MessageBird acquires real-time notifications and in-app messaging platform Pusher for $35Mbit - Nov, 23 2020
Europe now has 60 startup unicornstechstartups - Nov, 20 2020
Unicorn startup companies 2020: List of top 500 unicorn startups with valuation of $1 Billion+pulse2 - Oct, 13 2020
MessageBird: $200 Million Funding And $3 Billion Valuationtechinasia - Oct, 12 2020
MessageBird bags $200m series C round, expanding in Asialaffaz - Oct, 11 2020
Amsterdam’s MessageBird raises $200 Mn at $3 Bn valuation to expand to MENAift - Oct, 10 2020
Omnichannel Platform as a Service (OPaaS) Provider MessageBird Raises $200 millionlink - Oct, 9 2020
Partnering with MessageBirdtech - Oct, 9 2020
Today in European Tech: MessageBird scores $200 million, Web Summit goes fully online, and other deals/stories that caught our eyestrib - Oct, 9 2020
MessageBird’s $200 Million Fundraise Likely Last Before an IPObit - Oct, 9 2020
MessageBird Snares $200 Million In Fundingtechstartups - Oct, 9 2020
Amsterdam-based MessageBird flies with $200 million in Series C funding to grow its cloud communications platform, now valued at $3 billionfortune - Oct, 8 2020
MessageBird becomes a unicorn thrice overTechCrunch - Oct, 8 2020
MessageBird, the ‘omnichannel platform-as-a-service,’ raises $200M Series C at $3B valuationnews - Oct, 8 2020
MessageBird Raises $200M At $3B Valuationmedium - Oct, 8 2020
Congratulations to MessageBird, the OPaaS rocketship joining the ranks of European unicorns todayfortune - Oct, 8 2020
How MessageBird became a tricornsifted - Oct, 8 2020
MessageBird raises $200m at unicorn valuation for fresh acquisition spreefinance - Jun, 23 2020
Twilio’s Dutch Rival MessageBird Plans an IPO in ‘Gold Rush’venturebeat - Mar, 14 2020
Twilio rival MessageBird launches Inbox, an AI-powered contact centersiliconcanals - Mar, 10 2020
Inbox.ai: MessageBird launches Slack competitor, enters $350B customer service marketsiliconrepublic - Dec, 1 2019
‘My plan was to go to odontology school but I fell in love with computers’forbes - Jul, 24 2019
Meet The Startup Helping Hospitals Save Millions Annuallyprnewswire - Jul, 11 2019
MessageBird Announces the Opening of Newest Office In Dublinbusinessinsider - Apr, 3 2019
CEO of buzzy European tech firm MessageBird reveals why Y Combinator requires its startups to 'kill the fluff'inc - Aug, 11 2018
5 Ways to Prevent Exit Strategy from Hindering Innovationsiliconrepublic - Jun, 4 2018
10 amazing start-ups from Amsterdam to watchstartupjuncture - Jan, 26 2018
Fashion outlet startup Otrium raises €750K from industry execsventurebeat - Dec, 20 2017
European Twilio rival MessageBird raises $60 million from Accel, Atomico, and Y Combinatorfortune - Dec, 20 2017
Why This Founder Bootstrapped His Company for 6 Years Before Raising a Massive Roundbizjournals - Nov, 3 2016
Most of the fastest-growing startups in latest Y Combinator Demo Days aren't from Bay Areastartupjuncture - Oct, 28 2016
Dutch startup news update: Startup Kids, InnovationQuarter, MessageBirdstartupjuncture - Apr, 25 2016
Dutch startup news update: Symbid, StartLife, startup visastartupjuncture - Apr, 21 2016
MessageBird takes over iBasis’ SMS businessblog - Mar, 17 2016
We just launched Chat API: integrate WeChat, WhatsApp and Telegramstartupjuncture - Jan, 4 2016
The Next Web to launch new tech hub ‘X’ in Amsterdampress - May, 20 2015
Robert Vis, CEO MessageBird, nominated for Entrepreneur Of The Year 2015EquityZen does not have an affiliation with, formal relationship with, or endorsement from any companies featured above. This profile is based on publicly available information and is intended to be informative in nature.
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