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Courier Lands $35M To Build A Service For App Notifications

Courier Lands $35M To Build A Service For App Notifications

06/22/22, 2:00 PM
Money raised
$35 million
App notifications, well-intentioned or no, have become a part of daily life. A 2018 study out of Duke University estimated that — aside from email and work app alerts — the average person receives between 65 and 80 mobile app notifications per day. Unsurprisingly, the result is frustration. One recent survey found that half of app users consider push notifications annoying, while another suggests that 57% will take steps to avoid brand that bombard them with “poorly-targeted” communications, including notifications.

Company Info

Company
Courier
Additional Info
Courier, which today closed a $35 million Series B funding round led by GV, provides an API and “studio” to send and build notifications across multiple channels, including email, text, web, and mobile. “I founded Courier in 2019. That’s why I founded Courier.” can be programmed to emit events, which Courier can receive via the platform’s API or SDK. Lastly, each provider delivers the template from Courier to the end-user and Courier receives and logs delivery, open, and engagement data. “Courier helps its customers deliver a better user experience, reduce their total cost of ownership by not needing to maintaining their own notification infrastructure, and achieve a far greater amount of agility because new notifications can she shipped live in minutes.”Using Courier to send notifications with segment. The biggest challenge is delivering a platform that can solve for customers across industries,” Courier said. Courier has a usage-based pricing model, so as our customers user bases grow and they send more notifications, we are able to grow revenue. Courier is by no stretch the first plug-and-play notification platform for apps.