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Twilio
AI · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2008 · IPO 2016
News
Sent raises $12M Series A to rebuild messaging for the AI agent era
Jul 28, 2026
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Solo GP Ashley Smith closes $25M Fund II for AI, security and dev tools startups
Jul 8, 2026
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Turkish data platform Hardal raises $1.55M to scale AI infrastructure globally
Jun 3, 2026
Analysis
The Twilio Mafia
May 12, 2026
Market map
NYC AI Map by Lux Capital
Twilio mafia
Startups founded by Twilio alumni
Former Twilio employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Tejas ManoharUnited States
Jeff LawsonUnited States
Mark GilbertUnited States
Manu KumarUnited States
Davit BaghdasaryanUnited States
Warren GreenUnited States
John Britton.Philippines
Michael Furlong.United States
Cesar PinoUnited States
Mohamed ElgendyUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Twilio has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Twilio's talent
Dealroom maps Twilio's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$111M patent portfolio · 207 active families
Where Twilio concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Twilio and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
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.
58 deals across Twilio's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
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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