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Joe Mifsud
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
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
Competition
• CallFire

• Cisco
• Voxeo

• Various similar smaller companies
• Successfully beating them because product is
  superior
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
What’s Hot
• Recently released a native iOS SDK
• Customer service companies (ZenDesk) are
  beginning to integrate with the service
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
Customers
Summary
• Voice and SMS Infrastructure API
• Easy to use and scale

• Rapidly expanding with employees and funding

• Currently hiring engineers

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Eecs 441 company preso

  • 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
  • 9. Summary • Voice and SMS Infrastructure API • Easy to use and scale • Rapidly expanding with employees and funding • Currently hiring engineers

Notes de l'éditeur

  1. SCALABLE Interactive Voice Response
  2. Jeff LawsonEvan Cooke – UMJonhWoltuis