Twilio

Cloud communications company that enables users to build voice, VoIP and SMS apps via an online API.

Launch date

Jun 2008

Employees

5001-10000 people

Market cap

Enterprise valuation

$7.6b (Public information from Sep 2024)

Company register number 07945978

San Francisco California (HQ)

http://www.twilio.com/

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Corporate Venture Fund: Twilio Fund, Twilio.org Impact Fund

Revenues, earnings & profits over time

USD	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
Revenues	1.8b	2.8b	3.8b	4.2b	4.4b	4.7b	5.1b
% growth	55 %	61 %	35 %	9 %	5 %	7 %	8 %
EBITDA	(343m)	(657m)	(577m)	427m	814m	893m	988m
% EBITDA margin	(19 %)	(23 %)	(15 %)	10 %	19 %	19 %	19 %
Profit	(491m)	(950m)	(1.3b)	(1.0b)	(177m)	(69.4m)	117m
% profit margin	(28 %)	(33 %)	(33 %)	(24 %)	(4 %)	(1 %)	2 %
EV / revenue	27.5x	15.0x	1.5x	2.6x	1.9x	1.7x	1.5x
EV / EBITDA	-141.0x	-64.8x	-10.1x	25.1x	10.1x	8.7x	7.8x
R&D budget	531m	789m	1.1b	943m	-	-	-
R&D % of revenue	30 %	28 %	28 %	23 %	-	-	-

Source: Dealroom estimates

Date	Investors	Amount	Round
-	Redpoint Ventures Craft Ventures Technology Crossover Ventures TechOperators Kapor Capital Founders Fund Jeffrey Schox	N/A	-
Jan 2009	Bessemer Venture Partners K9 Ventures	$1.0m	Seed
Dec 2009	Bessemer Venture Partners Union Square Ventures K9 Ventures Lowercase Capital Dave McClure	$3.7m	Series A
Nov 2010	Bessemer Venture Partners Union Square Ventures SV Angel 500 Global K9 Ventures	$12.0m	Series B
Dec 2011	Bessemer Venture Partners Union Square Ventures	$17.0m	Series C
Dec 2011	Bessemer Venture Partners Union Square Ventures Infocomm Investments	$17.0m	Series C
Jun 2013	Bessemer Venture Partners Threshold Ventures	$70.0m	Series D
Dec 2014	N/A	N/A	Secondary
Jan 2015	Founders Circle Capital	N/A	Secondary
Mar 2015	Founders Circle Capital	N/A	Secondary
Jul 2015	Amazon Fidelity Investments Salesforce Ventures Altimeter Capital Arrowpoint Partners T. Rowe Price	$130m Valuation: $870m	Series E
Jan 2016	Victor Koch	$3.5m	Secondary
Jun 2016	N/A	$150m Valuation: $2.0b	IPO
Mar 2017	K2 Global	N/A	Post IPO Equity
Jul 2021	N/A	$378m	Post IPO Equity
Total Funding		$251m

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ACQUISITION by Twilio Feb 2017

ACQUISITION by Twilio Jul 2020

ACQUISITION by The Carlyle Group Oct 2010

ACQUISITION by Tanla Platforms(Formerly Tanla Solutions) Jun 2023

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ACQUISITION by Twilio May 2021

ACQUISITION by Twilio Apr 2021