With A Huge $70 Million Investment, Twilio Is Now Worth $500 Million
Twilio's core tech is a piece of
A business could use Twilio to let a customer rep talk to people visiting its web site. Or a taxi service could use it to send an SMS message to customers letting them know what time their rides will arrive.
So far, Twilio has struck deals with more than 1,000 telecom
Twilio also sells some cloud services to businesses like a "virtual call center" that routes calls to the right people and records calls in the cloud.
With this latest round, Twilio has raised more than $100 million in VC funding and signed up more than 200,000 developers. It now has a valuation of about $500 million, GigaOm's Om Malik reports.
Next up is likely an IPO. While Twilio's cofounder and CEO Jeff Lawson wouldn't give a timeline, he told Greg Kumparak of Techcrunch an IPO would be “the next logical step.”
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