What is SendGrid? SendGrid Review, Features

SendGrid is an email service platform that helps marketers track their email statistics. SendGrid is dedicated to helping companies manage transactional emails, including shipping notifications, newsletters, and sign-up confirmations.

About SendGrid

·SendGrid originated in the API economy, and its email platform is the gravitational center of digital customer communications. In 2009, the three founders wanted to bring users a better way to send emails, so they created the first cloud-based email communication platform. Since then, SendGrid has begun to provide easy-to-use APIs and scalable email services. As the company's customer base has diversified, SendGrid has also developed a wide range of email marketing products to enhance marketers' ability to easily send promotional information, and the recently launched Expert Services are designed to help all customers establish more effective communication through email.

SendGrid is a cloud-based email service that provides reliable transaction-based email delivery with scalability and real-time analysis capabilities. Common use cases include: automatically replying to user emails; sending information to users regularly; generating reports, etc.

SendGrid now offers free services for up to 40,000 emails per month and 100 emails per day, without the need for credit card verification.

Development History

-In 2009, SendGrid was founded in Colorado, USA.

In May 2011, SendGrid announced that it had sent over 9 billion emails for over 23,000 companies since its founding.

In January 2012, SendGrid raised $21 million in Series B funding.

In January 2012, SendGrid reported that it sends 2.6 billion personalized emails per month.

In June 2012, SendGrid announced that it had worked with 60,000 businesses and sent a total of 45 billion emails since its launch in 2009.

In April 2013, SendGrid announced that it had sent over 100 billion emails.

In December 2014, SendGrid raised $20 million in Series C funding.

-In November 2016, SendGrid received $33 million in Series D funding, led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Bessemer Ventures and Foundry Group.

In December 2017, SendGrid announced that they process approximately 36 billion emails per month.