1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 8 a.m.

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Venky Balasubramanian is the co-founder and CEO of Plivo, a cloud-based communications platform that simplifies how businesses integrate communications into their applications. Today Plivo has grown to over 200 employees across 3 offices globally and has been profitable since 2015. Plivo has expanded exponentially over the last few years serving over 70,000 customers and now handles billions of voice calls and SMS every year from businesses around the world.

Prior to founding Plivo, Venky has had a number of years of telecom industry experience working in technical capacities with global telecom giants like Huawei Technologies.

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