The latest funding round was led by Boulder's Foundry Group who were joined by True Ventures and the Founders Co-op who had both of participated in Urban Airship's earlier Series A in February and brings Urban Airship's total venture capital investment of $6.5 million. It was also announced that Jason Mendelson, Managing Director of Foundry Group, has joined Urban Airship's board of directors.
Since launching in June 2009, Urban Airship has provided mobile developers with tools to optimize their apps, including easy-to-implement products for mobile messaging and content delivery and authorization. To date, Urban Airship has delivered more than 1 billion mobile messages across the Apple iOS, Android and Blackberry platforms. Many of the top brands in entertainment, media, publishing and gaming depend on Urban Airship to ensure their mobile marketing initiatives are profitable and scalable.
"Urban Airship really impressed us with its foresight into the mobile market. The team there knows the market better than anyone else and is consistently out in front of what customers want and need," says Mendelson. "Urban Airship's early traction of securing more than 4 thousand customers sending millions of messages every day and reaching 45 million devices is extremely impressive."
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