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January 17, 2012
SendGrid now sends 2.6 billion emails per month for customers in more than 150 countries and tracks and reports more than 400 million events per day. In total, SendGrid has sent 26 billion emails on behalf of clients. The company nearly tripled its customer base (to 40,000) in 2011 alone.
January 17, 2012
SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin SendGrid, a TechStars company, has raised a $21 million Series B round from Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing investors Foundry Group, Highway 12 Ventures, SoftTechVC, 500 Startups and Bullet Time Ventures also participated.
January 17, 2012
All those email messages from web applications and services for notifications, updates and subscriptions are growing at a fast clip, and that’s helping to spawn new opportunities in so-called transactional email. SendGrid, a TechStars graduate, is a big beneficiary, becoming one of the largest email platforms in the world, with 40,000 customers and 2.6 billion emails sent a month.
January 17, 2012
Deliverer of cloud-based email solutions plans goes after enterprise market and London expansion
With more and more enterprise companies turning to the cloud for services, SendGrid, a cloud-based provider of email services, hopes to piggyback on that trend by helping them deliver their emails.
May 19, 2011
Web host Rackspace Hosting (www.rackspace.com) announced on Thursday that it has partnered with email infrastructure provider SendGrid (www.sendgrid.com).
According to the press release, the partnership will enable Rackspace customers to use SendGrid’s email solution, ideal for large amounts of email.
May 10, 2011
Unlike most, SendGrid, the TechStars-incubated email management and delivery system, loves dealing with overloaded inboxes. In fact, it loves email so much that it has delivered over 9 billion emails for more than 23K companies.
March 19, 2011
AlwaysOn partnered with Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Hewlett-Packard, Blackstone Group, Bridge Bank, Fenwick & West, Silicon Valley Bank, along with industry experts, to identify the top 100 private on-demand and SaaS companies – plus 16 to watch – that are pioneers in cloud computing and SaaS.
March 9, 2011
SendGrid, an email delivery and management service, has reached an impressive milestone today-the startup has helped companies send 7.5 billion emails. That’s up from 1.2 billion emails sent through the platform last April. SendGrid is also announcing that former Oracle exec Jim Franklin has joined as CEO.
February 28, 2011
Of all the things pundits like to declare the death of, email is way up there. But the popularity of email delivery service SendGrid indicates that the medium isn’t dead yet.
SendGrid sends a hard-to-believe one billion emails per month.
April 20, 2010
If you send 200 million e-mails a month you should meet SendGrid. The email delivery and management service has raised $5 million in its latest round of funding. Foundry leads the investor group, which includes angel investors Scott Petry (Postini founder) and Matt Mullenweg (WordPress) and several of SendGrid’s early backers, such as Highway 12 Ventures, David Cohen (TechStars), Jeff Clavier (SoftTech VC), Dave McClure (FF Angel). Foundry’s co-founder, Ryan McIntyre, will join the company’s board of directors
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SendGrid helps you focus on your business without the cost and complexity of owning and maintaining an email infrastructure. We manage all of the technical details from scaling the infrastructure, to whitelist services and real-time analytics. We offer world-class deliverability expertise to make sure your emails get delivered.
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