Airship (formerly Urban Airship) is an American company that provides marketing and branding services. Airship allows companies to generate custom messages to consumers via

push notifications Push technology or server push is a style of Internet-based communication where the request for a given transaction is initiated by the publisher or central server. It is contrasted with pull/get, where the request for the transmission of informat ...

SMS Short Message/Messaging Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile devices exchange short text ...

messaging, and similar, and provides

customer analytics In sales, commerce, and economics, a customer (sometimes known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product or an idea - obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier via a financial transaction or exchange for ...

services.

History

In 2009, 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. In 2011, Airship acquired SimpleGeo on October 31, 2011. SimpleGeo developed toolsets allowing developers to more easily create location aware mobile applications and had partnered with Airship to combine software and services shortly before their acquisition. Airship discontinued SimpleGeo services on March 31, 2012. In December 2012, Airship acquired Tello, another True Ventures-backed startup. Airship acquired Tello in an all-stock deal in order to integrate PassTools, Tello's Apple Passbook management product, into its current offering. On February 6, 2013 the company announced additional funding of $25 million from Foundry Group, Intel Capital, True Ventures and Verizon. In October 2014 the company 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 June 2018 the company 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 September 2018, Airship released beta SDK for iOS. In June 2019, the company rebranded as Airship (formally being Urban Airship) In September 2020, Airship acquired SMS commerce company ReplyBuy for an undisclosed amount. The ReplyBuy team will be joining Airship with CEO Brandon O'Hallary becoming Airship's general manager of commerce and CTO Anthony Saia heading the commerce engineering team. , Airship has offices in Portland OR, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, New York City, London, Paris, New Delhi, Munich and Singapore.

References

External links

* {{official website 2009 establishments in Oregon Companies based in Portland, Oregon American companies established in 2009 Mobile technology companies Privately held companies based in Oregon Software companies based in Oregon Software companies of the United States Software companies established in 2009