2. Products
• Voice API
o IVR
o Voice broadcast
• Two-way SMS API
• Telephone # and Short Code provisioning
• Provide the infrastructure that powers many well
known apps and websites
3. Financials
• Privately held company
• $33.7 million in VC funding over last 3 years
• $17 million in December 2011
• Customers increased 400% to 75,000 in 2011
• Grew from 25 to 100 employees last year
4. Competition
• CallFire
• Cisco
• Voxeo
• Various similar smaller companies
• Successfully beating them because product is
superior
5. History
• Founded 2007 by team of three
o Former product manager for AWS
o Network security research fellow at UM
• Big break came from hackathon where GroupMe
was created from it’s SMS platform
6. What’s Hot
• Recently released a native iOS SDK
• Customer service companies (ZenDesk) are
beginning to integrate with the service
7. Secret Sauce
• Simplicity
• Service abstracts away the complexities of
telephone and SMS communications
• Developer left with a series of GET and POST HTTP
requests
• Scalability