Urban Airship Secures $1.1m in Funding
By Puneet Agarwal, February 16, 2010
Huge congrats to Founders Scott Kveton, Steven Osborn, Michael Richardson, and Adam Lowry for their new round of funding for Urban Airship. We could not be more excited about partnering with such a visionary group. Their traction since starting a little over nine months ago has been nothing short of impressive – 1500 customers, over 100 million messages pushed, and over 10 million devices served!
The official press release is here in addition to the company’s blog post.
With the introduction of the iPhone and Android, the mobile landscape has changed dramatically, creating robust new platforms for innovation. Most of the talk has been about the wave of cool new apps and deservedly so. We seemingly hear about a new app store being created at every turn.
What has received less attention is the underlying software infrastructure required to enhance these very applications and enable them to run reliably and with scale. At True, we are strong believers in the next wave of mobile infrastructure with Urban Airship playing right at the center of this massive opportunity.
We look forward to continued innovation as the company expands across multiple platforms and form factors including the iPad, augments and to some extent reinvents the SMS experience, and brings more rich, relevant content to the mobile user.
More importantly, we look forward to working together with such a great group of entrepreneurs!