SendGrid Acquires Message Bus Customer Base
Companies Working Closely on Providing Customers with Seamless Transition to SendGrid's Email Platform
BOULDER, Colo., June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SendGrid, the leading email delivery platform for email that matters, today announced that it has acquired the customer base of Message Bus. The two companies will work in lockstep to smoothly transition customers to SendGrid's email platform, which now includes over 200,000 clients including Taco Bell, Costco, Airbnb, Booking.com and Spotify. Message Bus is a provider of cloud-based email infrastructure and sends over 300 million emails per month on behalf of its customers.
"This acquisition immediately adds scale to our expanding customer roster and we're excited to bring Message Bus customers onto our platform," said Sameer Dholakia, CEO of SendGrid. "This announcement underscores our momentum and rapid growth as we add nearly 1,500 new customers per month and continue to develop new product offerings. Additionally, in alignment with our dedication to providing best-in-class customer support, we are committed to providing Message Bus customers with a seamless transition to SendGrid, along with our industry leading email delivery rates."
"Over the last three years, we've proven that a focus on best practices and support tailored to each customer yields the best possible delivery performance," said Paul Midgen, CEO of Message Bus. "The SendGrid team have demonstrated their ability to deliver the personalized service and attention to detail our customers expect and we're delighted to partner with them."
"SendGrid is providing an essential capability for a growing market of companies providing online services that need to ensure email delivery to their consumers," said Dr. Katy Ring, Research Director, IT Services of 451 Research. "At five years old, the company is at an interesting point in its development as it keeps ahead of its smaller competitors. SendGrid instigated this market opportunity and has first mover advantage in terms of growing its customer base and gaining experience in the service it provides to enhance its capabilities going forward."
About SendGrid
SendGrid is the leading email delivery platform for email that matters. SendGrid's proven, cloud-based email platform successfully delivers over 18B customer engagement emails each month for Internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Pandora, Hubspot, Spotify, Uber and FourSquare as well as more traditional enterprises like Walmart, Intuit and Costco. For more information, visit www.sendgrid.com.
About Message Bus
Message Bus was founded in 2010 to build cloud-based email infrastructure. Its software ensures deliverability of all email-based communications whether critical, transactional or promotional, perfect for new implementations or integration with existing systems. The company removes the cost associated with deploying email and eliminates the need to hire email experts to make it work. Market leading companies rely on Message Bus to manage the trust relationship between senders and recipients, increasing email deliverability rates, while driving conversion and revenue. More information is available on the company's website: http://www.messagebus.com.
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