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PubNub, the leading API platform for powering real-time connected experiences that bring people together for remote work, play, learning, and health, has raised a Series E funding round of approximately $65 million to capture increasing demand across a wide range of industries. Led by The Raine Group, with participation from firms including Sapphire Ventures, Scale Ventures, HPE, and Bosch, this financing round brings the company's total funding amount to over $130 million.
PubNub’s customers span 70+ countries and their platform powers 600 million monthly devices from users in virtually every part of the globe. Its developer-first API platform makes it easy to build and deliver apps that create Virtual Spaces where users can truly connect authentically and share real-time experiences, most notably for virtual events, enterprise collaboration, chat, rideshare/delivery, telehealth, connected fitness, gaming, and smart home products. As these products have become increasingly crucial to our daily lives, the need for redundancy, security, and global low-latency has further driven customers to PubNub’s many global points-of-presence and regulatory compliances like HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC 2 Type 2.
“PubNub’s vision is to make people’s online experiences as engaging and rewarding, if not more so, than those in the real world. This recent round of funding enables us to innovate even faster so we can quickly reach companies globally who are demanding better-connected experiences in their products,” said Todd Greene, CEO and Co-Founder of PubNub. “We are thankful and excited to have The Raine Group join our exceptional team of investors.”
Today, PubNub’s software powers innovative digital economy companies including Adobe, Atlassian, DocuSign, and RingCentral. “A real-time, connected, and flawless experience is key when it comes to delivering high quality livestream shows, sometimes to hundreds of thousands of fans around the world. PubNub’s developer API platform has been an important part of powering the fan interaction, bringing the crowd together in ways that are both easy to use, and innovative,” said Kyle Heller, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Veeps, a leading livestream platform that was recently acquired by Live Nation.
As part of Raine’s investment, Christopher Donini, Managing Director of The Raine Group, and Kevin Linker, Managing Partner of Raine’s Next-Gen Communications, will be joining PubNub’s Board of Directors. “We are excited to be partnering with PubNub, powering the future of real-time digital and social experiences in a world where constraints on developer time and engineering resources are placing an increasing demand for software solutions and APIs,” said Mr. Donini, “PubNub’s leading solution provides easy-to-implement reliability, security, and low-latency, which we believe solves a pervasive problem at the intersection of Raine’s global network across technology, media, and telecommunications.”
PubNub, headquartered in San Francisco, has approximately 150 employees and plans to add a team in APAC headquartered in Singapore by Q1 2022. An expanded executive team helped deliver both strong revenue growth and a 200% year-over-year increase in new customer bookings in 2021.
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