Ty Wang, former senior director of the business communications unit at Oracle, will now serve as vice president of business development at Twilio. Bessemer Venture partner Byron Deeter will be joining Twilio’s board of directors.
Nearly a year ago, at the end of December 2009, Twilio closed its $3.69 million Series A, following a $600,000 seed stage.
Around the time of that Series A round, Twilio was serving about 4,000 developers, a number it says has multiplied to 20,000. And those developers are paying less for the service than ever before. In September, Twilio announced price reductions for customers that would result in an average of 29% in savings, made possible by “new levels of scale.”
OpenVBX, a Web-based open source phone system for business (pictured), is just one example of what a Twilio-powered application is capable of. Another Twilio-powered application just launched two weeks ago called TextSlide, which is being described as ChatRoulette for text messaging.