Courier provides a notification management platform that allows developers to effectively route user notifications across various communication channels, such as email, SMS, and messaging apps. By utilizing an API, the platform intelligently determines the optimal channel for delivering messages based on user engagement and online status. This capability enables businesses to craft a single message that can be reused across multiple channels or customized for specific platforms, ensuring timely and relevant communication with users, business partners, and external stakeholders. With a commitment to customer success, Courier has evolved alongside technological advancements while maintaining stable management practices and long-term relationships with its clients.
Courier provides a notification management platform that allows developers to effectively route user notifications across various communication channels, such as email, SMS, and messaging apps. By utilizing an API, the platform intelligently determines the optimal channel for delivering messages based on user engagement and online status. This capability enables businesses to craft a single message that can be reused across multiple channels or customized for specific platforms, ensuring timely and relevant communication with users, business partners, and external stakeholders. With a commitment to customer success, Courier has evolved alongside technological advancements while maintaining stable management practices and long-term relationships with its clients.
Courier
Venture Round in 2020
Courier provides a notification management platform that allows developers to effectively route user notifications across various communication channels, such as email, SMS, and messaging apps. By utilizing an API, the platform intelligently determines the optimal channel for delivering messages based on user engagement and online status. This capability enables businesses to craft a single message that can be reused across multiple channels or customized for specific platforms, ensuring timely and relevant communication with users, business partners, and external stakeholders. With a commitment to customer success, Courier has evolved alongside technological advancements while maintaining stable management practices and long-term relationships with its clients.
Intercom, Inc. is a customer communication platform designed to facilitate interactions between businesses and their customers across web and mobile platforms. Established in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Dublin, Intercom enables teams to engage with customers personally and at scale. The platform includes several core products: Acquire, which allows businesses to chat with website visitors; Engage, which helps onboard and retain customers through targeted messaging; Learn, which gathers customer feedback; and Support, which assists users within web and mobile applications. With over 25,000 global organizations, including well-known companies like Atlassian, Amazon, and Lyft Business, utilizing its services, Intercom sends more than 500 million messages each month, reaching over 600 million active end users, thereby redefining customer support through effective messaging and automation.
SendGrid
Venture Round in 2017
SendGrid, Inc. is a digital communication platform based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in enabling businesses to engage with their customers through email. Founded in 2009, the company provides a cloud-based platform that offers a range of services tailored for developers and marketers. Its offerings include an email application programming interface (API) that allows developers to integrate email functionalities into their applications, as well as marketing campaign tools that enable marketers to manage customer contact lists, design email templates, and analyze campaign performance. Additionally, SendGrid provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and ensuring effective communication. With its robust platform, SendGrid delivers over 30 billion emails monthly for a diverse clientele, including both tech-driven companies and traditional enterprises.
SendGrid, Inc. is a digital communication platform based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in enabling businesses to engage with their customers through email. Founded in 2009, the company provides a cloud-based platform that offers a range of services tailored for developers and marketers. Its offerings include an email application programming interface (API) that allows developers to integrate email functionalities into their applications, as well as marketing campaign tools that enable marketers to manage customer contact lists, design email templates, and analyze campaign performance. Additionally, SendGrid provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and ensuring effective communication. With its robust platform, SendGrid delivers over 30 billion emails monthly for a diverse clientele, including both tech-driven companies and traditional enterprises.
Intercom, Inc. is a customer communication platform designed to facilitate interactions between businesses and their customers across web and mobile platforms. Established in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Dublin, Intercom enables teams to engage with customers personally and at scale. The platform includes several core products: Acquire, which allows businesses to chat with website visitors; Engage, which helps onboard and retain customers through targeted messaging; Learn, which gathers customer feedback; and Support, which assists users within web and mobile applications. With over 25,000 global organizations, including well-known companies like Atlassian, Amazon, and Lyft Business, utilizing its services, Intercom sends more than 500 million messages each month, reaching over 600 million active end users, thereby redefining customer support through effective messaging and automation.
Intercom, Inc. is a customer communication platform designed to facilitate interactions between businesses and their customers across web and mobile platforms. Established in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Dublin, Intercom enables teams to engage with customers personally and at scale. The platform includes several core products: Acquire, which allows businesses to chat with website visitors; Engage, which helps onboard and retain customers through targeted messaging; Learn, which gathers customer feedback; and Support, which assists users within web and mobile applications. With over 25,000 global organizations, including well-known companies like Atlassian, Amazon, and Lyft Business, utilizing its services, Intercom sends more than 500 million messages each month, reaching over 600 million active end users, thereby redefining customer support through effective messaging and automation.
SendGrid, Inc. is a digital communication platform based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in enabling businesses to engage with their customers through email. Founded in 2009, the company provides a cloud-based platform that offers a range of services tailored for developers and marketers. Its offerings include an email application programming interface (API) that allows developers to integrate email functionalities into their applications, as well as marketing campaign tools that enable marketers to manage customer contact lists, design email templates, and analyze campaign performance. Additionally, SendGrid provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and ensuring effective communication. With its robust platform, SendGrid delivers over 30 billion emails monthly for a diverse clientele, including both tech-driven companies and traditional enterprises.
Intercom, Inc. is a customer communication platform designed to facilitate interactions between businesses and their customers across web and mobile platforms. Established in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Dublin, Intercom enables teams to engage with customers personally and at scale. The platform includes several core products: Acquire, which allows businesses to chat with website visitors; Engage, which helps onboard and retain customers through targeted messaging; Learn, which gathers customer feedback; and Support, which assists users within web and mobile applications. With over 25,000 global organizations, including well-known companies like Atlassian, Amazon, and Lyft Business, utilizing its services, Intercom sends more than 500 million messages each month, reaching over 600 million active end users, thereby redefining customer support through effective messaging and automation.
Return Path
Series G in 2013
Return Path is a specialized provider of email marketing solutions, established in 1999 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in various global locations including Denver, Toronto, London, and Sydney. The company focuses on helping clients optimize their email marketing campaigns through its comprehensive platform, which delivers valuable data and insights. By collaborating with leading email service providers, Return Path enables marketers to enhance their email deliverability, ensuring that their messages reach a larger audience. This strategic approach allows clients to increase engagement and drive revenue, ultimately elevating their email marketing programs to achieve better results.
SendGrid, Inc. is a digital communication platform based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in enabling businesses to engage with their customers through email. Founded in 2009, the company provides a cloud-based platform that offers a range of services tailored for developers and marketers. Its offerings include an email application programming interface (API) that allows developers to integrate email functionalities into their applications, as well as marketing campaign tools that enable marketers to manage customer contact lists, design email templates, and analyze campaign performance. Additionally, SendGrid provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and ensuring effective communication. With its robust platform, SendGrid delivers over 30 billion emails monthly for a diverse clientele, including both tech-driven companies and traditional enterprises.
Yodle, Inc. is a provider of online marketing services aimed at local business owners, offering a range of solutions designed to enhance their online presence and customer engagement. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York, the company assists over 45,000 clients across more than 250 industries, with a strong focus on sectors such as legal, dental, medical, and home services. Yodle's platform includes services like web presence management, local search placement, social media engagement, customer review management, email marketing, and the distribution of special offers. The company also specializes in providing tailored marketing solutions for franchises and multi-location businesses, helping them optimize their local and national marketing strategies. As of March 2016, Yodle operates as a subsidiary of Web.com Group, Inc.
Yodle, Inc. is a provider of online marketing services aimed at local business owners, offering a range of solutions designed to enhance their online presence and customer engagement. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York, the company assists over 45,000 clients across more than 250 industries, with a strong focus on sectors such as legal, dental, medical, and home services. Yodle's platform includes services like web presence management, local search placement, social media engagement, customer review management, email marketing, and the distribution of special offers. The company also specializes in providing tailored marketing solutions for franchises and multi-location businesses, helping them optimize their local and national marketing strategies. As of March 2016, Yodle operates as a subsidiary of Web.com Group, Inc.
Goodmail Systems
Series C in 2008
Goodmail Systems provides a safe and reliable means for consumers to easily identify authentic messages from legitimate commercial and nonprofit senders. Each CertifiedEmail is sent with a cryptographically secure token that assures authenticity, and is marked in the inbox with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon, enabling consumers to visually distinguish messages which are real and sent from senders with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. Available to senders meeting strict standards for best email practices and low complaint rates, it is the only class of email available that assures delivery of all opt-in email messages to the inbox, with links and images automatically rendered intact, yielding measurable improvements in email program effectiveness. CertifiedEmail has been adopted by seven of the nation’s top ten mailbox providers and 150 government agencies. It is supported in North America and the United Kingdom by a wide network of email platforms and service providers.
Yodle, Inc. is a provider of online marketing services aimed at local business owners, offering a range of solutions designed to enhance their online presence and customer engagement. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York, the company assists over 45,000 clients across more than 250 industries, with a strong focus on sectors such as legal, dental, medical, and home services. Yodle's platform includes services like web presence management, local search placement, social media engagement, customer review management, email marketing, and the distribution of special offers. The company also specializes in providing tailored marketing solutions for franchises and multi-location businesses, helping them optimize their local and national marketing strategies. As of March 2016, Yodle operates as a subsidiary of Web.com Group, Inc.
Yodle, Inc. is a provider of online marketing services aimed at local business owners, offering a range of solutions designed to enhance their online presence and customer engagement. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York, the company assists over 45,000 clients across more than 250 industries, with a strong focus on sectors such as legal, dental, medical, and home services. Yodle's platform includes services like web presence management, local search placement, social media engagement, customer review management, email marketing, and the distribution of special offers. The company also specializes in providing tailored marketing solutions for franchises and multi-location businesses, helping them optimize their local and national marketing strategies. As of March 2016, Yodle operates as a subsidiary of Web.com Group, Inc.
Postini is a provider of on-demand communications security and compliance solutions, focusing on email, instant messaging, and web services. With a daily processing capacity of over 1 billion messages, Postini safeguards more than 35,000 businesses globally from various internet threats. The Postini Communications Suite is designed to eliminate unwanted content and enhance productivity by automatically encrypting sensitive communications between businesses. The company holds two patents related to security and compliance technologies. Acquired by Google in 2007, Postini operates as a subsidiary, continuing to deliver essential services in North America and Europe.