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SendBird.

A chat API for mobile apps, fresh out of Y Combinator in 2016, that reported a valuation above $1 billion five years later.

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  1. Listing page saved

    The Wayback Machine saved this listing page.

    The saved page ↗
  2. On record

    Y Combinator's blog profiled SendBird (YC W16) as messaging-as-a-service for adding real-time chat to an app, built by John Kim's team after their earlier community app for mothers, Smile Mom.

    On record · Announced
    ycombinator.com
  3. Funding

    Sendbird announced a $100 million Series C led by STEADFAST, saying its valuation had topped $1 billion and that over 150 million users sent over 2.5 billion messages on its platform every month.

    Funding · Announced
    sendbird.com
  4. On record

    Sendbird launched Delight.ai, an AI concierge for customer experience, in a release datelined San Mateo; the boilerplate still names the Sendbird Communication Suite.

    On record · Announced
    prnewswire.com
  5. Site checked

    The product's site was live.

  6. Listed on Stompstart

    “Messaging and Chat API for Mobile Apps and Websites”

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Listing date unconfirmed · page saved 8 February 2016 · Public

“Messaging and Chat API for Mobile Apps and Websites”

SendBird provides the chat API and the backend for your app enabling real-time communication among your users. You can save time and resources of your team by leveraging the wide range of features offered by our chat API

Topics
Messaging
Location
San Francisco · United States
sendbird.com ↗blog.sendbird.com ↗facebook.com/sendbird ↗twitter.com/sendbird ↗linkedin.com/company/sendbird ↗angel.co/sendbird ↗crunchbase.com/organization/sendbird ↗

In our words: The listing, filed from San Francisco, described SendBird as a chat API and hosted backend that let developers add real-time messaging between the users of their apps and websites, with a broad feature set meant to save engineering time.

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Sources

  1. sendbird.com
  2. sendbird.com
  3. sendbird.com
  4. techcrunch.com
  5. ycombinator.com
  6. prnewswire.com

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