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Twilio

AI · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2008 · IPO 2016

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

Valuation $29B
Revenue $5.82B
EBITDA $1.21B
Power Law Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Knowledge graph
News Kapso raises $1.4M seed to build WhatsApp infrastructure for LatAm developers Aug 24, 2026 News Cursor acquires Firetiger to close the loop from code to production Aug 14, 2026 News Sent raises $12M Series A to rebuild messaging for the AI agent era Jul 28, 2026 Analysis The Twilio Mafia May 12, 2026 Market map NYC AI Map by Lux Capital

Talent graph

Twilio's talent

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Employees mapped 7,774 incl. 56 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 22 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

17 investors on Twilio's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 5 investors entered at this stage
Founders Fund
Bessemer Venture Partners
Dave McClure
K9 Ventures
Kapor Capital
Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Union Square Ventures
Lowercase Capital
Series B+ 10 investors entered at this stage
500 Global
Salesforce Ventures
Infocomm Investments
Altimeter Capital
Amazon
Fidelity Investments
Redpoint
T. Rowe Price
SV Angel
Threshold Ventures

Twilio mafia

Startups founded by Twilio alumni

Former Twilio employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

HightouchEst. 2016
Tejas ManoharUnited States
Signal score96
InertiaEst. 2024
Jeff LawsonUnited States
Signal score95
ZocksEst. 2022
Mark GilbertUnited States
Signal score94
Bedrock RoboticsEst. 2024
TETom EliazUnited States
Signal score91
CartaEst. 2012
Manu KumarUnited States
Signal score90
KrispEst. 2017
Davit BaghdasaryanUnited States
Signal score89
CelloEst. 2022
RCRobert ColettiGermany
Signal score86
Joyful HealthEst. 2023
Warren GreenUnited States
Signal score85
WorkbrewEst. 2023
John Britton.Philippines
Signal score85
StratiFiEst. 2016
Michael Furlong.United States
Signal score84
TruoraEst. 2018
Cesar PinoUnited States
Signal score81
KolenaEst. 2021
Mohamed ElgendyUnited States
Signal score79

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Global footprint

Where Twilio has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
49 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States51.9%
🇮🇳 India16.5%
🇨🇴 Colombia9.2%
🇮🇪 Ireland4.1%
🇪🇪 Estonia4.1%
Top 5 of 49 shown
Web traffic by country
6.1M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States37.6%
🇮🇳 India10.2%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom4%
🇨🇦 Canada3.9%
🇦🇺 Australia3.9%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$111M patent portfolio · 207 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$111M
0.39% of market cap · comparable to top peer Hubspot ($108M)
207 active patent families
Where Twilio innovates ClientComputer networkData miningData scienceDatabase

Where Twilio concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Twilio and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Twilio's 58 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Twilio appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2015–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

58 deals across Twilio's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where Twilio deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        Twilio's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        58 of 58 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Twilio

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Twilio on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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