 Twilio's text messaging API was released in February 2010, and SMS shortcodes were released in public beta in July 2011.Twilio raised approximately $103 million in venture capital growth funding.Twilio received its first round of seed funding in March 2009 for an undisclosed amount, rumored to be around $250,000, from Mitch Kapor, The Founders Fund, Dave McClure, David G. Cohen, Chris Sacca, Manu Kumar, from K9 Ventures and Jeff Fluhr.