What is SendGrid? SendGrid Review

Basic Introduction

SendGrid is a triggered email management service provider. SendGrid was originally a startup under the TechStars incubator that provides business triggered emails (such as registration welcome emails, order confirmation emails) generation and management services. The startup's business email management service can provide corporate users with web applications to automatically generate triggered emails. It is based on a cloud computing SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) platform and can provide enterprises with a secure and scalable email...

Financing

In April 2010, the email software-as-a-service (SaaS) company received $5 million in Series A funding from Foundry Group, SoftTech VC and Highway 12 Ventures

In January 2012, SendGrid raised $21 million in Series B funding.

In December 2014, SendGrid raised $20 million in Series C funding.

In November 2016, SendGrid raised $33 million in Series D funding.

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SendGrid announced in May 2011 that it had sent more than 9 billion emails for more than 23,000 companies since its founding.

As of January 2012, the service reported that it sends 2.6 billion personalized emails per month.

SendGrid announced in June 2012 that it had worked with 60,000 businesses and sent a total of 45 billion emails since its launch in 2009.

In April 2013, SendGrid announced that it had sent over 100 billion emails.

In December 2017, SendGrid announced that they process approximately 36 billion emails per month.

References

• 1. SendGrid's fundraising in 2014: denverpost official website [reference date 2018-03-15T16:00:00.000Z]
• 2. SendGrid development in 2017: whoapi official website [reference date 2018-03-15T16:00:00.000Z]
• 3. SendGrid development in 2011: techcrunch official website [cited on 2018-03-15T16:00:00.000Z]
• 4. SendGrid development in 2012: allthingsd official website [reference date 2018-03-15T16:00:00.000Z]
• 5. SendGrid’s fundraising in 2016: venturebeat official website [cited on 2018-03-15T16:00:00.000Z]
• 6. SendGrid development in 2013: fourthsource official website [reference date 2018-03-15T16:00:00.000Z]