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Twilio

Cloud communications platform providing APIs for voice, SMS, and messaging.

Public 🦄 Unicorn Founded 2008 San Francisco USA Developer Tools
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Founders

3
E
Evan Cooke
Co-founder
 J
Jeff Lawson
Co-founder & CEO
 J
John Wolthuis
Co-founder

Where its founders came from

3

The companies and labs that produced Twilio’s founders.

Amazon StubHub Nine Star

The Twilio diaspora

2 companies

People who worked at or founded Twilio and went on to start their own companies.

J 1 founded
Global Tetrahedron 2024
R 1 founded
Bond 2019

Acquisitions

2
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Segment
Developer Tools · USA
Acquired YC S11Founded 2011
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Twilio SendGrid
Developer Tools · USA
AcquiredFounded 2009

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