Developers who set out to create a better way to send email. They wanted to create a system that “worked” for developers and allowed them to focus on what was most important to them: building their apps and growing their business. The team was able to solve this email use case and in doing so, created the world's first cloud-based email delivery platform. As sendgrid has grown, we've extended this platform over time to meet the similar email delivery needs of marketers, and defined a broader vision for the business - to be the world's most trusted communications platform.
At the heart of this vision is to empower customers to solve another key problem we know they face: orchestrating communications for their own company mailing list customers across multiple channels. Joining twilio allows us to accelerate our journey towards a shared vision of delivering a trusted platform to power the future of customer communications. We are excited to be part
Of a proven, successful, and rapidly growing cloud communications platform aligned with our api-focused, developer-centric roots, as well as our mission, vision, and values. Sendgrid is a category leader in email delivery, reaching half of the world's digital users every three months. Twilio's cloud communication platform spans complementary customer communication channels including voice, video and messaging. Bringing the two companies together can enable all of our customers to better reach and engage more of their customers in context, driving engagement and business growth. Together, we power over 600 billion annual interactions for over 100,000 customers. We know that email is critical to our