December 7, 2011 05:29 pm GMT
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Twilio Raises $17 Million Series C From Bessemer and Union Square To Expand Abroad
Cloud communications pioneer Twilio is dominating the USwith APIs that let developers add SMS, voice, and VoIP functionality to apps. Now it plans to roll out services to 20 more European countries using a $17 million Series C funding round. The investment comes from Bessemer Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures, both of which participated in its Series Ba year ago, and brings Twilio to a total of $33.7 million in funding.When I asked exactly where the funding would go, CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson answered "Build up the sales team, build up the marketing team, building out product and hiring more engineers. Amajor area of growth for us is international. We're in the UK and will berolling out to the rest of Europe in the next couple months."Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/wVtw8syEhsc/
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