Text Marketing Startup Attentive Hits $2.2 Billion Valuation With Its Third Funding Announcement Of 2020

With the pandemic causing e-commerce sales to skyrocket, 2020 has served as an unlikely year of hypergrowth for Attentive. The text message marketing startup has more than doubled its employee count to 400 from 150 at the start of the year, and it now works with 2,000 customers, up from 1,000 just five months ago.

After a $110 million Series C raised across two tranches in January and April, the New York City startup on Wednesday closed a $230 million Series D funding round led by existing investor Coatue. The company has now raised $394 million total,

Article source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2020/09/23/attentive-messaging-marketing-startup-series-d-billion-valuation/