MessageBird

MessageBird, which now presents itself as Bird, describes itself as the messaging infrastructure of the modern internet. According to its own about page, it launched in 2011 and built its telecom stack end to end rather than licensing it, including 240 direct-to-carrier SMS connections. Its platform consolidates email, SMS, voice, and WhatsApp onto one API with SDKs in major runtimes and an MCP server, and its network is described as carrying about 40% of the world's commercial messages. Founder and CEO Robert Vis is named on the company's about page.

Bird states that it launched in 2011, at a time when most providers licensed their telecom stack from established players; Bird says it instead built its own, including 240 direct-to-carrier SMS connections, to control latency, deliverability, and reach. It continued building, adding email deliverability craft after the SparkPost acquisition and the WebSocket layer it operated as Pusher. In Asia, it says it was the first to connect Kakao, Line, and WeChat through a single API. After consolidating hundreds of telecom and messaging APIs into one platform, it states that about 40% of the world's commercial messages were flowing through its network. Today it ships that infrastructure as a developer API covering email, SMS, voice, and WhatsApp on the same auth, idempotency contract, and webhook envelope, with SDKs in every major runtime and an MCP server. Its about page also references a founder story of MessageBird by Robert Vis and press coverage of a $200M Series C at a $3B valuation.

Developer-facing communications infrastructure: email, SMS, voice, and WhatsApp on one API, one contract, on a network described as carrying about 40% of the world's commercial messages.

• Email API

  Email sending API with direct sending IPs, managed warm-up, ISP-aware routing, and SPF/DKIM/DMARC handled.

• SMS API

  SMS sending, audiences, content, and delivery reporting with an API and a team workspace.

• Voice API

  SIP trunking with a record and events on every call.

• WhatsApp API

  Engage customers worldwide with the WhatsApp API.

• Mailbox API

  Mailbox API for agents that answer their own email.

• 2021.04.28

  Reported2021.04.28

  MessageBird announces an $800 million Series C extension[5]MessageBird宣布获得8亿美元C轮融资扩展techcrunch.com

  MessageBird announced an $800 million extension to its Series C round; the article noted that the round was not completely closed yet.

• 2021.04.28

  Reported2021.04.28

  MessageBird acquires SparkPost[5]MessageBird宣布获得8亿美元C轮融资扩展techcrunch.com

  MessageBird announced that it was using $600 million of its Series C extension to acquire SparkPost, an email marketing platform.

• Unconfirmed

  Reported2020.12.16

  MessageBird acquires Pusher[6]MessageBird收购Pushertechcrunch.com

  MessageBird acquired London-based real-time web technologies company Pusher for $35 million. Pusher co-founder and CEO Max Williams and the 25-person Pusher team joined MessageBird; Pusher's product was to remain independent for existing customers.

• 2020.03.10

  Reported2020.03.10

  MessageBird unveils Inbox.ai[7]MessageBird推出Inbox.aitechcrunch.com

  MessageBird unveiled Inbox.ai, a customer-service product that brings customer messages from multiple channels into a single thread and includes tools for support agents.

Read more

1. 1Communications infrastructure your AI agents operate — Birdbird.com
2. 2About — Birdbird.com
3. 3Products for connected customer experiences | Bird — Birdbird.com
4. 4SMS API and Marketing Platform — Birdbird.com
5. 5MessageBird宣布获得8亿美元C轮融资扩展techcrunch.com
6. 6MessageBird收购Pushertechcrunch.com
7. 7MessageBird推出Inbox.aitechcrunch.com
8. 8MessageBird launches an 'omni-channel' Intercom competitor | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
9. 9MessageBird发布新产品Inbox.ai_行业综合_行业_中金在线hy.stock.cnfol.com