How it started
History
In 2009, Urban Airship was founded by Steven Osborn, Scott Kveton, Adam Lowry, and Michael Richardson. The company received $1.1 million in Series A funding in February 2010, and then received $5.4 million in Series B funding in November of the same year. On November 5, 2011, Airship received $15.1 million in Series C funding from Salesforce.com, Intel, and Verizon, among others.
On February 6, 2013, the company announced additional funding of $25 million from Foundry Group, Intel Capital, True Ventures and Verizon. In October 2014, Airship announced another $12.1 million in Series D funding from existing investors. In February 2015, the company picked up an additional $9 million in venture funding, bringing total funding to $67.6 million. In September 2015, the company released Urban Airship Connect, a platform for collecting data from mobile apps and sharing it with other business systems. In June 2018, Airship completed an F round of funding at $25 million led by Foundry Group.
In July 2014, Scott Kveton stepped down as CEO. In October of that same year, Brett Caine was hired as CEO. Caine was previously the president of Citrix Online. In November 2016, Airship launched two messaging APIs Open Channels and Open Profiles.
In March 2018, Airship released interactive and automated in-app messages. In June 2018, the company completed an F round of funding at $25 million led by Foundry Group. In August 2018, Urban Airship introduced Boost, a service for delivering mobile notifications with reduced latency. During the 2018 FIFA World Cup final, the company reported a peak delivery rate of 400,000 notifications per second. Onefootball, a sports news platform, utilized the service to send more than five billion notifications during the tournament. In September of the same year, Airship released beta SDK for iOS.
In June 2019, the company rebranded as Airship (formally being Urban Airship).
From Wikipedia’s article on Airship, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3