Plivo

Plivo
Private
Industry Telecommunications
Founded September, 2011
Headquarters San Francisco, Bangalore, USA, India
Key people
 Venky B (co-founder), Michael Ricordeau (co-founder)
Website Plivo.com

Plivo, which dubs itself as the Amazon of Telephony,[1] is a cloud based API Platform for building Voice and SMS enabled Applications.[2] It is a Y Combinator-backed telephony startup that offers an API platform for voice and SMS applications, which recently announced that it raised $1.75 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Qualcomm Incorporated, and SV Angel.[3][4]

Services

Together with the Plivo Cloud, the company also distributes Plivo Framework opensource under the terms of the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1.[5]

Developer API

Plivo provides Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to make and receive calls, send SMS, make a conference call, and more . These APIs are used in conjunction with XML responses to control the flow of a call or a message. Developers can create Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) endpoints to perform the telephony operations and the APIs are platform independent and can be used in any programming environment such as PHP, Ruby, Python, etc. It also provides helper libraries for these programming languages.[6]

Competitors

Founded on September, 2011, Plivo was able to acquire its first paying customer on October, 2011,[7] although it faces the major competition from Twilio - an established provider in a similar domain.

Customer Response

Plivo acquired its first paying customer on October 2011, and has claimed to have 30% month-to-month growth in terms of call volume.

References

  1. ↑ "How Silicon Valley Fosters Plivo's Cloud-Based Telephony,Forbes Coverage".
  2. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile". May 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ "YC-Backed Telephony Startup Plivo Raises $1.75M From Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Qualcomm Inc. & SV Angel". December 3, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Voice and Messaging Apps Platform Provider Plivo Raises Seed Round From Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Qualcomm and SV Angel".
  5. ↑ "Plivo Framework - Opensource Telephony Application Prototyping Platform".
  6. ↑ "Developer API Documentation".
  7. ↑ "Forbes coverage".

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