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Web Host Rackspace Partners with Email Infrastructure Provider SendGridMay 19, 2011
Web host Rackspace Hosting (www.rackspace.com) announced on Thursday that it has partnered with email infrastructure provider SendGrid (www.sendgrid.com).
According to the press release, the partnership will enable Rackspace customers to use SendGrid's email solution, ideal for large amounts of email[ ... ]
Email Delivery System SendGrid Announces New Pricing ModelMay 10, 2011
Unlike most, SendGrid, the TechStars-incubated email management and delivery system, loves dealing with overloaded inboxes. In fact, it loves email so much that it has delivered over 9 billion emails for more than 23K companies[ ... ]
SendGrid Named as One of The Top 16 2011 OnDemand Ones to WatchMarch 19, 2011
AlwaysOn partnered with Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Hewlett-Packard, Blackstone Group, Bridge Bank, Fenwick & West, Silicon Valley Bank, along with industry experts, to identify the top 100 private on-demand and SaaS companies - plus 16 to watch - that are pioneers in cloud computing and
SaaS. [ ... ]
SendGrid Sends 7.5 Billion Emails, Brings Former Oracle Exec As CEOMarch 9, 2011
SendGrid, an email delivery and management service, has reached an impressive milestone today-the startup has helped companies send 7.5 billion emails. That's up from 1.2 billion emails sent through the platform last April. SendGrid is also announcing that former Oracle exec Jim Franklin has joined as
CEO[ ... ]
SendGrid CEO Isaac Saldana on Why Email Is Hardly Dead YetFebruary 28, 2011
Of all the things pundits like to declare the death of, email is way up there. But the popularity of email delivery service SendGrid indicates that the medium isn't dead yet
SendGrid sends a hard-to-believe one billion emails per month.
Then again, my inbox does seem to be rather chock-full lately, whether it'[s Groupon and Rue La La deals or various online retailers trying to lure me back for another sell[ ... ]
SendGrid Raises $5 Million, Sends A Bajillion E-mailsApril 20, 2010
If you send 200 million e-mails a month you should meet SendGrid. The email delivery and management service has raised $5 million in its latest round of funding. Foundry leads the investor group, which includes angel investors Scott Petry (Postini founder) and Matt Mullenweg (WordPress) and several of SendGrid’s early backers, such as Highway 12 Ventures, David Cohen (TechStars), Jeff Clavier (SoftTech VC), Dave McClure (FF Angel). Foundry’s co-founder, Ryan McIntyre, will join the company’s board of directors [ ... ]
SendGrid Raises $750K For Email Delivery SoftwareDecember 08, 2009
Startup SendGrid has raised $750,000 in Series A funding led by Highway 12 Ventures, with SoftTech VC, FF Angel LLC, TechStars-founders David Cohen and other angel investors participating. Incubated by TechStars, SendGrid attempts to solve the problems faced by companies when sending transactional outbound email (emails delivered by software applications such as sign up confirmations, shipping alerts, friend requests, and notifications). SendGrid’s outbound email servers promise to improve the delivery rates and solve scalability problems [ ... ]
Heroku Extends Cloud Platform Capabilities with its New Add-on SystemOctober 29, 2009
Heroku, the industry’s leading Ruby cloud platform-as- a-service provider, today announced the introduction of the Heroku Add-on system. The new system gives Ruby developers a one-stop catalog and easy access to the top features developers use to build web applications, tying them into Heroku apps with minimal effort. Heroku’s Add-on system enables developers to utilize advanced features in their web applications with a single click. The services, which are maintained and administered by Heroku and the 3rd parties jointly, allow Heroku’s customers to further slash the substantial time and money wasted on the care and feeding of traditional web application infrastructure [ ... ]
TechStars Investor Day Hits a Home RunSeptember 30, 2009
With bleary eyes and bellies full of coffee, a roomful of investors, journalists and young entrepreneurs gathered this morning for the Bay Area TechStars Investor day. The Boulder and Boston-based startup incubator pulled out all the stops as 13 companies took to the stage to plead their case for funding. Below are the summaries of each [ ... ]
TechStars Incubator Hatches 10 New CompaniesAugust 06, 2009
SendGrid is an email service that solves the problems faced by companies sending transactional outbound email (emails delivered by software applications such as sign up confirmations, shipping alerts, friend requests, and notifications). By using SendGrid instead of their current outbound email servers, companies can improve the delivery rates and solve scalability problems. SendGrid also solves many of the common problems faced by companies sending transactional email, such as CAN-SPAM compliance, link tracking, open rate reporting, and more. The company already has nearly 100 paying customers and has delivered over 100 million emails on their behalf [ ... ]