Urban Airship

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Urban Airship
Type Private startup
Founded 2009
Headquarters Portland, OR, USA
Products Push Notifications, Rich Push, Push Composer, Reports, In-Apps Purchase, Subscriptions [1]
Website www.urbanairship.com

Urban Airship is a mobile technology company based in Portland, Oregon.

Products

Urban Airship primarily provides app developers the ability to easily add features such as creation and delivery of enhanced push notifications and a digital wallet, as well as reporting on the use of those features back to app developers. The company offers these services on Android, iOS, Windows 8, and BlackBerry.[2]

History

In 2009, Urban Airship was founded by Steven Osborn, Scott Kveton (current CEO), Adam Lowry, and Michael Richardson. The company received $1.1 million in Series A funding in February 2010,[3] and then received $5.4 million in Series B funding in November of the same year.[4] On November 5, 2011 Urban Airship received $15.1 million in Series C funding from Salesforce.com, Intel, and Verizon, among others.[5]

In 2011, Urban Airship acquired SimpleGeo on October 31, 2011 in an all-stock deal reportedly worth $3,000,000.[6] SimpleGeo developed toolsets allowing developers to more easily create location aware mobile applications and had partnered with Urban Airship for an integrated solution shortly before their acquisition. Urban Airship discontinued SimpleGeo services on March 31, 2012.[7][8]

In December 2012, Urban Airship acquired Tello, another True Ventures-backed startup. Urban Airship acquired Tello in an all-stock deal in order to integrate PassTools, Tello's Apple Passbook management product, into its current offering.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "urbanairship.com/products". Urban Airship. 
  2. ↑ Rogoway, Mike (November 6, 2011). "Urban Airship raises $15.1 million amid rising prospects for Portland startups". Oregonlive.com. 
  3. ↑ "Urban Airship Announces Series A Round Led by True Ventures". Fierce Wireless. 
  4. ↑ "Urban Airship Closes $5.4 Million Funding Round To Help Power Mobile Apps". Tech Crunch. 
  5. ↑ Rogoway, Mike (November 15, 2011). "Intel backs Urban Airship, establishes $100 million fund for mobile investment". The Oregonian. Retrieved November 15, 2011. 
  6. ↑ "Urban Airship acquired SimpleGeo (confirmed)". Venture Beat. 
  7. ↑ "Urban Airship To Shutter SimpleGeo Services In March, With Factual Picking Up The Slack". TechCrunch. 
  8. ↑ "Update on our plan to integrate location and context services into our push messaging platform". 
  9. ↑ "Urban Airship Acquires Tello For Apple Passbook Tools". Forbes. 

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