Messagebird announced raising $200 million in Series C funding in a round led by Spark Capital.

Messagebird, an Amsterdam, The Netherlands and San Francisco, USA-based cloud communications platform developer, announced the completion of a $200 million in Series C funding round.

The transaction, which values Messagebird at $3 billion, was made with investors led by the American Spark Capital, and including Bonnier, Glynn Capital, LGT Lightstone, Longbow, Mousse Partners and New View Capital.

Existing investors Accel, Atomico, and Y Combinator also contributed to the round.

The deal was closed as a few months prior, in Jne 2020, Bloomberg announced that the compant has begun working with bankers on an IPO that could occur during 2021.

Messagebird, founded in 2011 by CEO Robert Vis, built a cloud communications platform based on which provides a suite of Cloud Communications APIs sold as an “Omnichannel Platform-as-a-Service” (OPaaS) and which enables developers and enterprises to communicate with customers all over the world. The company works with more than 15,000 customers, including Uber, HelloFresh and SAP and has offices in Amsterdam, San Francisco, Singapore, Dublin, London, Hamburg, Sydney and Shanghai.

Prior to this round, MessageBird has been bootstrapped until in 2017, when it raised $60 Million in capital from US-based Accel Ventures and UK-based Atomico. Since then, the company raised another 40 mil in 2019.