The round is led by the renowned Silicon Valley investor Accel with participation from Atomico and existing investor Y Combinator.
MessageBird is the only cloud communication platform with its own carrier infrastructure for telecommunications. Using in-house developed technology, multinationals can directly connect with their customers worldwide via sms, voice, chat, and video.
This can be done more securely, faster, more reliably, and cheaper than with any other platform. Through the communication platform of MessageBird, seven billion mobile phones in 146 countries can be reached, the largest possible number of end users at this moment.
Introduction of voice API MessageBird
In addition to the funding, MessageBird announces the introduction of its voice API. The company also announces a range of 15,000 international customers, including Amber Alert, Uber, Deliveroo, SAP, Huawei, Amber Alert, and Heineken.
With the introduction of Voice, which allows companies to build calling functionality into their own software and the existing product suite of sms and chat (such as Facebook, Wechat, and Line), combined with direct relationships with over 220 operators worldwide, MessageBird becomes the largest cloud communication platform in terms of direct customer reach. The carriers guarantee optimal service and one hundred percent platform reliability.
MessageBird – is bootstrapped profitable, has offices in Amsterdam, San Francisco, Sydney, and Singapore – and is on track to achieve a revenue of 100 million dollars this year.
Silicon Valley
Founder and CEO of MessageBird Robert Vis (photo): 'With the funding from two leading investors in Silicon Valley and Europe, we will expand our voice infrastructure and the sales of our services in the large enterprise market. We are convinced that every organization can save costs with our platform while enhancing their experience with the quality of our global features and services. And programmers are very excited about our APIs.'
