Founded in 2010 and led by CEO Paul Midgen, Message Bus provides cloud-based email infrastructure software that ensures deliverability of critical, transactional and promotional email communications. Its platform integrates traffic segmentation, automated reputation management, placement analysis, real-time analytics and setup configuration tailored to each customer. The company counts customers including About.me, DocuSign, Iterable, LinkedIn, Medium and MyFitnessPal. Message Bus closed a $4M funding round in May 2014 led by True Ventures with participation from North Bridge Venture Partners and Ignition Partners. The round brings the company’s total capital raised to $18M to date. Message Bus provides a cloud-native application service for enabling and powering messaging across email and mobile channels. The service is accessible via SMTP or through a programmatic API and is designed to remove the cost of deploying multiple messaging servers. It focuses on ensuring deliverability of critical communications, transactional messages and marketing messages. The company intends to use the new capital to accelerate hiring and advance its product roadmap. Message Bus was founded in 2010 by CEO Jeremy LaTrasse and is based in Corte Madera, CA. Message Bus is positioning itself as an "infrastructure apps" company that offers a suite of messaging utilities, beginning with email, delivered via a simple API and a scalable engine to maximize deliverability. The startup aims to remove the burden of maintaining email systems for most companies and to provide an agnostic messaging architecture at the plumbing level. It plans to open up the data clouds behind messaging systems to give companies greater insight and analytics into their messaging. Message Bus is the first graduate of The Start Project, a Silicon Valley-based incubator formed in late 2009 with advisors including Biz Stone, Matt Mullenweg, and Chris Sacca. The team is led by CEO Nick Wilder, President Narendra Rocherolle, and CTO Jeremy LaTrasse. The company competes in a space with providers such as Dyn, SendGrid, StrongMail, and Amazon SES.

Total raised

$18M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

May 2014