How the “once-bootstrapped” MessageBird just received $60-million in funding

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by Sindy Cator on October 3, 2017 at 7:42 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Growth, Insider

Founded in 2011, Amsterdam-based startup and cloud-communications platform, MessageBird, just nabbed the largest early-stage venture capital investment into a European software company in history. The $60-million “Series A” round of funding was led by venture capital firms, Accel and Atomico, from the US and Europe, as well as Y-Combinator, a startup incubator based in Silicon Valley. The messaging software provides social media services to Twitter, Facebook Messenger and “Wechat”. It also helps clients in the likes of Uber, Heineken, and even governments connect to customers via “SMS, Chat, and Voice” on billions of devices around the world. Think medical appointment…