Investment firm Eurazeo on Wednesday announced a minority investment of $ 200 million in MessageBird, a Netherlands-based company offering communication services to businesses for their clients, concluding a fundraising campaign. billion dollars.
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Eurazeo said in a press release that it is leading this round of funding with Tiger Global, and alongside funds managed by Blackrock, Owl Rock, and other historical investors such as Atomico and Accel.
MessageBird
"thus concludes a fundraising of 1 billion dollars, the largest Series C ever carried out in Europe and the second largest on both sides of the Atlantic"
, according to Eurazeo.
SparkPost goal
With this fundraising, MessageBird aims to acquire in the second quarter of SparkPost, an American platform
"world leader in predictive intelligence for e-mail based in the United States"
for 600 million dollars and the pursuit of its international expansion , Eurazeo said.
Founded in 2011 and based in Amsterdam, Message Bird provides businesses with a platform to communicate with their customers through different channels: SMS, voice, WhatsApp, WeChat, Messenger, email, etc.