Where is Sendbird located?

Sendbird is located in San Mateo, United States .

How many employees does Sendbird have?

Sendbird has 111 employees as of Dec 31, 2022.

Is Sendbird a funded company?

Sendbird is a funded company, its first funding round was on Nov 01, 2015.

How much is Sendbird worth?

The latest valuation of Sendbird is $1B as on Apr 06, 2021.

When was the latest funding round of Sendbird?

Sendbird's latest funding round was on Mar 19, 2021.

Is Sendbird a Customer Success Management company?

The primary sectors of Sendbird are Customer Success Management and AI Agents.

Where does Sendbird rank among its competitors?

Sendbird ranks 8 amongst 146 active competitors.

Who are the top competitors of Sendbird?

Sendbird's top competitors are RingCentral, Agora and Bandwidth.

Sendbird - 2025 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Sendbird is a series C company based in San Mateo (United States), founded in 2013 by John Kim, , and . It operates as a Messaging and chat API/SDK. Sendbird has raised $218M in funding from investors like , Tiger Global Management and August Capital, with a current valuation of $1B. The company has 146 active competitors, including 18 funded and 35 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like RingCentral, Agora and Bandwidth.

Sectors and market segments that Sendbird operate in

Sendbird serves in the B2B, SaaS space in the High Tech market segments.The primary business model of Sendbird is:

Company Details

Messaging and chat API which provides users chat API and SDK to integrate it into the app for enabling chat and messaging. The PAI provided is fully customizable and reliable for users. This is funded by Y combinator and included in YC winter 16 startups. They are migrating their storage system from MariaDB 10 to Amazon RDS Aurora. Pricing ranges from free for the basic version to enterprise subscription levels.

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Founded Year

2013

Location

San Mateo, United States

Stage

Series C

Total Funding

in 5 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Post Money Valuation

as on Apr 06, 2021

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& 24 more

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8^th among

Employee Count

as on Dec 31, 2022

Investment & Acquisitions

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Sendbird is associated with 2 legal entities given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Documents
CIN: 5607987 United States, Active	Aug 21, 2019	-	-	-
CIN: 611749669 United States, Active	Oct 12, 2014	-	111 (as on Dec 31, 2022)	-

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Sendbird has raised a total funding of $218M over 5 rounds. Its first funding round was on Nov 01, 2015. Its latest funding round was a Series C round on Mar 19, 2021 for $100M. 7 investors participated in its latest round, lead by Steadfast Financial.

Sendbird has 25 institutional investors including , Tiger Global Management and August Capital.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Sendbird:

Date of funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post money valuation	Revenue multiple	Investors
Mar 19, 2021	$100M	Series C	$1B	-	Steadfast Financial, Meritech, Iconiq Capital, Tiger Global Management, Emergence Capital, World Innovation Lab, SoftBank Vision Fund
Apr 22, 2019	$50M	Series B	-	-	Tiger Global Management, ICONIQ Growth
Feb 06, 2019	$52M	Series B	-	-	ICONIQ Growth, August Capital, , FundersClub, Shasta Ventures

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The founders of Sendbird are John Kim, , and .

Here are the details of Sendbird's key team members:

John Kim: Co-Founder & CEO of Sendbird and founder of 2 other companies, Paprika Lab and Smile Family. They are also an angel investor in 5 startups.
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Sendbird's employee count trend

Sendbird has 111 employees as of Dec 22. The total employee count is 35.0% more than what it was in Dec 21. Here is Sendbird's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Sendbird include RingCentral, Agora and Bandwidth. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Sendbird, ranked by 秘密研究所 score:

Overall Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	秘密研究所 Score
1st	RingCentral 1999, Belmont (United States), Public	Cloud based platform offering unified communication solutions	$44M	DAG Ventures, TriplePoint Capital听&补尘辫;听	82/100
2nd	Agora 2014, Guangzhou (China), Public	Cloud based customer engagement platform	$55M	HTIF, Access Industries听&补尘辫;听	78/100
3rd	Bandwidth 1999, Raleigh (United States), Public	Cloud-based enterprise collaboration platform for VoIP communication management	$21.9M	Herald Investment Management, De Anda Capital听&补尘辫;听	72/100
4th	Vonage 2001, Holmdel (United States), Acquired	Provider of contact center business communication solutions	$645M	, IVP听&补尘辫;听	72/100
5th	Route Mobile 2004, Mumbai (India), Acquired	Cloud based CPaas solutions for customer engagement	$23M	Goldman Sachs, Societe Generale听&补尘辫;听	71/100
6th	Avaya 2000, Durham (United States), Public	Cloud based unified communication software	$401M	Stockwell Capital, ValueAct Capital听&补尘辫;听	69/100
7th	Kaleyra 1999, Milan (Italy), Acquired	Cloud-based VoIP software provider	$2.35M	-	66/100
8th	2013, San Mateo (United States), Series C	Messaging and chat API/SDK	$218M	Meritech, August Capital听&补尘辫;听	65/100
9th	8x8 1987, Campbell (United States), Acquired	Provider of cloud communications solutions	-	Herald Investment Management, Ben Jen Holdings听&补尘辫;听	62/100
10th	Courier 2019, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Cloud-based push notification solutions provider	$57M	Bessemer Venture Partners, Matrix听&补尘辫;听	61/100