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Twilio - About the company

Twilio is a public company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2008 by Evan Cooke and John Wolthuis. It operates as a Cloud based omnichannel communication and customer engagement platform. Twilio has raised $240M in funding from investors like Founders Fund, Fidelity Investments and Bessemer Venture Partners. The company has 3356 active competitors, including 463 funded and 288 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Genesys, Capillary Technologies and Freshworks.

Company Details

Cloud based omnichannel communication and customer engagement platform. The platform offers a telephony infrastructure web service in the cloud, allowing web developers to integrate phone calls, text messages, and IP voice communications into the web, mobile, and traditional phone applications. It provides customer data platform that allows users to collect data from different channels, and manage the customer journeys in real time. It caters its solution to industries such as reatil, finance, healthcare, and more.
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Key Metrics
Founded Year
2008
Location
San Francisco, United States
Stage
Public
Total Funding
$240M in 13 rounds
Ranked
Annual Revenue
₹504Cr as on Mar 31, 2023
Employee Count
231 as on Sep 30, 2024
Investment & Acquisitions
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Exit Details
Public
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Twilio's funding and investors

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Twilio has raised a total funding of $240M over 13 rounds. Its latest funding round was a Post IPO round on Jul 31, 2021 for an undisclosed amount. 1 investor participated in its latest round, which include TeleSoft Partners, TDM Growth Partners, TCV and T. Rowe Price.

Twilio has 40 institutional investors including Founders Fund, Fidelity Investments and Bessemer Venture Partners. Mitch Kapor is only Angel Investor in Twilio.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Twilio:
Date of funding
Funding Amount
Round Name
Post money valuation
Revenue multiple
Investors
Jul 31, 2021
Undisclosed
Post IPO
6801384
4344120
May 2018
$550M
Post IPO
6693928
9739756
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Jul 31, 2015
$130M
Series E
9640981
4493918
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Twilio's founders and board of directors

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The founders of Twilio are Evan Cooke and John Wolthuis. Khozema Shipchandler is the CEO of Twilio.

Twilio's employee count trend

Twilio has 231 employees as of Sep 24. The total employee count is 4.0% more than what it was in Sep 23. Here is Twilio's employee count trend over the years:
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Twilio's Competitors and alternates

Top competitors of Twilio include Genesys, Capillary Technologies and Freshworks. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Twilio, ranked by Tracxn score:
Overall Rank
Company Details
Short Description
Total Funding
Investors
Tracxn Score
1st
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Twilio
2008, San Francisco (United States), Public
Cloud based omnichannel communication and customer engagement platform
$240M
83/100
2nd
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Genesys
1990, Daly City (United States), Acquired
Omnichannel customer experience and contact center solutions in the cloud
$1.48B
79/100
3rd
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Capillary Technologies
2008, Bengaluru (India), Series D
AI powered loyalty management software for enterprises
$239M
79/100
4th
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Freshworks
2010, San Mateo (United States), Public
Cloud-based business process management suite solutions
$499M
78/100
5th
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Dialpad
2011, San Ramon (United States), Series F
Cloud-based platform offering unified communication solutions
$476M
77/100
6th
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Five9
2001, San Ramon (United States), Acquired
Provider of AI and cloud based contact center suite solutions
$84.1M
76/100
7th
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Sinch
2008, Stockholm (Sweden), Public
Provider of customer communications management platform
$12M
76/100
8th
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Gupshup
2004, San Francisco (United States), Series F
AI powered customer engagement and support platform for businesses
$484M
75/100
9th
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Acquia
2007, Boston (United States), Acquired
AI powered digital experience and customer data management platform
$174M
73/100
10th
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LivePerson
1995, New York City (United States), Public
Cloud based conversational AI platform
-
72/100
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Twilio's Investments and acquisitions

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Twilio has made 25 investments in companies including Hyro and Nurdle. Twilio has also acquired 10 companies including Ionic Security and Zipwhip. Here is the list of investments & acquisitions:
Date of Investment/Acquisition
Type
Company Name
Founded Year
Location
Dec 10, 2024
Investments
2014
New York City, United States
Nov 13, 2023
Investments
2023
San Francisco, United States
Nov 30, 2022
Investments
2016
New York City, United States
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News related to Twilio

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Media has covered Twilio for a total of 92 events in the last 1 year, 59 of them have been about company updates and 13 about partnerships.
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