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Twilio
Cloud communications company that enables users to build voice, VoIP and SMS apps via an online API
At a glance
- Founded
- 2008
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2016
- Sector
- AI
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
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
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Twilio.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed5 investors entered at this stage
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later10 investors entered at this stage
500 Global
Salesforce Ventures- IIInfocomm Investments
Altimeter Capital
Amazon
Fidelity Investments
Redpoint
T. Rowe Price
SV Angel
Threshold Ventures
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Twilio employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
HIHightouchEst. 2016
Tejas ManoharUnited States
Jeff LawsonUnited States
ZOZocksEst. 2022
Mark GilbertUnited States
BRBedrock RoboticsEst. 2024
CACartaEst. 2012
Manu KumarUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
207 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Twilio was the 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.
58 deals across Twilio's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Twilio on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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
See Twilio on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.