Founded in 2009 after graduating from the TechStars accelerator program, by 3 developers who were frustrated that their emails weren’t being delivered.
Developed a cloud based service/platform that solves the challenge of delivering emails.
Product: Email as a service with 2 major products - a cloud based platform (to replace email infrastructure for a company) and a marketing platform (for marketers to reach out to customers)
In our 7th year and became profitable in May
Challenges (scale), growth (new products) and changes (new executive leadership)
Our culture and what sets us apart - the 4H’s
Hungry – we expect high performance; constantly innovating & improving
Happy – love what you do; life is more than work
Humble – customer-first; “we” rather than “I”
Honest – transparency & integrity
- Redwood City Office: ~18 people, ~7 engineers
- Company Size: 300 people, ~100 engineers
Funding Rounds (6) - $80.36M
- Nov, 2016 $33M / Series D
- Dec, 2014 $20M / Series C
- Jan, 2012 $21.6M / Series B
- Apr, 2010 $5M / Series A
- Dec, 2009 $750k / Series A
- Aug, 2009 $12k / Seed
- Can transfer H1-B (prefer first year term of H1-B)
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- 3 weeks PTO
- 10 paid holidays plus 1 additional floating holiday plus 1 paid community day
- 401K with 4% match - vested immediately
- Stock options
- Daily lunch ($2500/year)
- Ecopass/commute/parking passes ($1,020 - $1,500/year)
- Cell phone reimbursement ($900/month)
- Revenue of $6.9M, represents 40% Y/Y growth, was above Plan by 4.6% and we crossed $80MM+ for Annualized revenue run-rate
- Gross Margin of 75%, with August our sixth consecutive month of sustained 70%+ gross margins
- We were profitable again for third in the last four months; Adjusted Net Income of $0.4M was better than Plan by $0.4M, and we are solidly on track for our first full profitable quarter
- Free Cash Flow of $0.9M was $1.1M better than Plan
- We sent over 30B emails last month, representing 50% growth over August 2015 (we had our first billion email day only a few months ago)
Process for Software Engineers
- Phone Interview with Mike (VPE)
- Take Home HackerRank 1hr
- ~4 hour onsite - 45min VPE, 45min PM, 2hr Coding
Process for Product Managers
- 45min phone interview
- ~3hr Onsite - (Mike, 2PM, 1 other person)
Process for Senior Front End
- Phone Interview with Mike
- HackRank
- Onsite, 90 min challenge with UI/UX designer
- SendGrid Named to First-Ever Forbes 2016 World's Best 100 Cloud Companies List
- SendGrid Named to First-Ever Forbes 2016 World's Best 100 Cloud Companies List
- Behind the “50 Highest Rated Private Cloud Companies to Work For” List
- The 18 best cloud computing startups to work for, according to employees
- SendGrid Stocking Stuffer: Your Email Marketing Survival Kit
- SendGrid’s plans: Go public, be a $1 billion company. Here’s why Colorado’s tech scene will be watching closely
- SendGrid raises $33 million, talks IPO and hopes to be Colorado’s next billion-dollar company
- SendGrid will hire as many as 250 by early 2018, close to 400 by 2020
- SendGrid Announces the Grand Opening of New Global Headquarters in Downtown Denver