Twilio

Twilio is the developer platform for communications is reinventing telecom by merging the worlds of cloud computing, web services, and telecommunications. With Twilio, developers and businesses make communications more contextual by embedding voice, video, messaging, and authentication directly into applications.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

12

$764.41M

Twilio has raised a total of $764.41M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jul 28, 2021 from a Post-IPO Equity round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Jul 28, 2021	Post-IPO Equity	$378.21M	—	—	—	Detail
Mar 8, 2017	Post-IPO Equity	—	1	—	—	Detail
Jun 23, 2016	IPO	$150M	—	—	—	Detail
Jan 12, 2016	Secondary Market	$3.50M	1	—	—	Detail
Jul 29, 2015	Series E	$130M	8	Fidelity T. Rowe Price	—	Detail

Investments

Number of Investments

Number of Lead Investments

23

4

Twilio has made 23 investments. Their most recent investment was on Nov 30, 2022, when Frame AI raised $7.60M.

Date Company Name	Round	Money Raised	Industry	Lead Investor
Nov 30, 2022 Frame AI	Series B	$7.60M	Analytics	—
Sep 7, 2022 PolyAI	Series B	$40M	Artificial Intelligence	—
Jul 21, 2022 Treble.ai	Series A	$15M	Artificial Intelligence	—
Jun 30, 2022 Emarketing Solutions	Seed	$195K	Education	Yes
Jun 22, 2022 Courier	Series B	$35M	Developer APIs	—

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

11

23

Twilio is funded by 23 investors. Fidelity and T. Rowe Price are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
Fidelity	Yes	Series E
T. Rowe Price	Yes	Series E
Founders Circle Capital	Yes	Secondary Market
Union Square Ventures	Yes	Series C
Techstars	Yes	Seed
K2 Global	—	Post-IPO Equity
Victor Koch	—	Secondary Market
Amazon	—	Series E
Altimeter Capital	—	Series E
ArrowMark Partners	—	Series E

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles

188

Twilio has 188 current employee profiles, including Advisor Chris Sacca

Advisor

Board member

Executive

Executive

Board member

Exits

Twilio has had 2 exits. Twilio most notable exits include Hustle , Syniverse

Date	Company Name	Exit Type	Industry
Aug 19, 2020	Hustle	M&A	CRM	Detail
Feb 10, 2005	Syniverse	M&A	Messaging	Detail

Acquisition

Twilio has acquired 11 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Authy on Feb 24, 2015. They acquired Authy for 0.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Feb 24, 2015 Authy	Cyber Security	acquisition	—	Detail
Sep 20, 2016 Kurento	Internet	acquihire	—	Detail
Feb 7, 2017 Beepsend SMS	Developer APIs	acquihire	—	Detail
Sep 11, 2018 Ytica	Call Center	acquisition	—	Detail
Oct 15, 2018 SendGrid	Business Development	acquisition	$ 3B	Detail