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SendGrid was founded in 2009, and had rapid success. The Boulder startup, which sends e-mails on behalf of companies such as FourSquare, announced in January that it raised $21 million in funding and entered into a partnership with Microsoft, spokeswoman Carly Brantz said. [Read full article.]
Since its launch in December 2009, SendGrid has grown from a seed-funded startup into one of the largest email platforms in the world. The company sends about 2.6 billion emails per month for customers in more than 150 countries. [Read full article.]
SendGrid has raised $21 million in a Series B round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The Boulder, Colo.-based company sends 2.6 billion personalized emails per month to users of services like Pinterest, Airbnb and Path — with 26 billion total emails sent over the past two-and-a-half years.
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E-mail infrastructure startup SendGrid has raised $21 million in its second round of funding and created a partnership with Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform to convince more enterprises to use its e-mail delivery solutions, the company announced today. [Read full article.]
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. [Read full article.]
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. [Read full article.]
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. [Read full article.]
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.
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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[ ... ]
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[ ... ]
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. [ ... ]
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
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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.
Then again, my inbox does seem to be rather chock-full lately, whether it’[s Groupon and Rue La La deals or various online retailers trying to lure me back for another sell[ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
Startup SendGrid has raised $750,000 in Series A funding led by Highway 12 Ventures, with SoftTech VC, FF Angel LLC, TechStars-founders David Cohen and other angel investors participating.Incubated by TechStars, SendGrid attempts to solve the problems faced by companies when sending transactional outbound email (emails delivered by software applications such as sign up confirmations, shipping alerts, friend requests, and notifications). SendGrid’s outbound email servers promise to improve the delivery rates and solve scalability problems [ ... ]
Heroku, the industry’s leading Ruby cloud platform-as- a-service provider, today announced the introduction of the Heroku Add-on system. The new system gives Ruby developers a one-stop catalog and easy access to the top features developers use to build web applications, tying them into Heroku apps with minimal effort. Heroku’s Add-on system enables developers to utilize advanced features in their web applications with a single click. The services, which are maintained and administered by Heroku and the 3rd parties jointly, allow Heroku’s customers to further slash the substantial time and money wasted on the care and feeding of traditional web application infrastructure [ ... ]
With bleary eyes and bellies full of coffee, a roomful of investors, journalists and young entrepreneurs gathered this morning for the Bay Area TechStars Investor day. The Boulder and Boston-based startup incubator pulled out all the stops as 13 companies took to the stage to plead their case for funding. Below are the summaries of each [ ... ]
SendGrid is an email service that solves the problems faced by companies sending transactional outbound email (emails delivered by software applications such as sign up confirmations, shipping alerts, friend requests, and notifications). By using SendGrid instead of their current outbound email servers, companies can improve the delivery rates and solve scalability problems. SendGrid also solves many of the common problems faced by companies sending transactional email, such as CAN-SPAM compliance, link tracking, open rate reporting, and more. The company already has nearly 100 paying customers and has delivered over 100 million emails on their behalf [ ... ]
