Company
Date Published
Author
Jeff Lawson, Twilio co-founder and CEO
Word count
436
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The company Twilio has closed a $130 million Series E round of funding led by Fidelity and T Rowe Price, along with investments from Altimeter Capital Management and Arrowpoint Partners. Amazon.com and Salesforce were also significant participants in the round. The new investors are excited about Twilio's business opportunity to serve developers and will increase the company's ability to provide communications tools. With this investment, Twilio plans to develop products that enable global-scale customer experiences, such as its Real-time Communications Suite with Twilio Video and IP Messaging.