PubNub Closes $23M Funding to Accelerate Adoption of its DSN

Apr 9, 2019

New strategic backer Hewlett Packard Enterprise joins investment team supporting PubNub's mission to connect every device in the world and deliver large-scale real-time experiences on Mobile, Web, and IoT.

San Francisco, April 9, 2019 -- PubNub, the company behind the world's leading real-time Data Stream Network (DSN), today announced it has secured $23 million in Series D funding, adding strategic investor Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to the strong stable of Venture Capital and industry heavyweights backing its mission. Jai Das, President and Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures, joins the PubNub Board of Directors. With full participation from all existing investors, this new round brings the company's total funding amount to approximately $70 million.

Around the world, a revolution is occurring.  Apps that deliver connected shared experiences, like live chat, rideshare, delivery, enterprise collaboration, device monitoring/control, and social gaming are changing the way that people travel, eat, work, shop, and play.  PubNub's real-time messaging and edge compute platform is used by thousands of companies to power these products.  The new funding will be used to accelerate the company's growth internationally, capitalizing on this growing demand, especially in emerging markets.

"Edge computing and real-time technologies will be at the heart of the next wave of technology innovation," commented Vishal Lall, COO of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. "PubNub's global Data Stream Network has demonstrated extensive accomplishments powering both enterprise and consumer solutions. HPE is thrilled to be investing in PubNub's fast-growing success, and to accelerate the commercial and industrial applications of PubNub's real-time platform."

2018 saw strong growth for PubNub.  An expanded executive team helped deliver strong revenue growth, while its global infrastructure expanded to deliver more than 1.3 trillion messages monthly (more than twice the world's global SMS traffic).  Partnerships with the largest cloud, software, and networking providers further grew PubNub's reach.  PubNub will accelerate its growth in 2019, with multiple sales and R&D offices opening throughout Q2 and Q3 this year.

"Connected shared experiences are at the heart of the world's most exciting transformations, changing every aspect of people's lives," said Todd Greene, CEO and co-founder of PubNub. "We are thankful for a world-class investment team that continues to share our vision, and are delighted to welcome the strategic thinkers and innovators of HPE into the fold."
For more information on PubNub, visit www.pubnub.com.
About PubNub
PubNub is transforming how people live, work and play within virtual environments. Powered by a platform to build and operate real-time interactivity within mobile, web and IOT apps, our chat, live audience engagement, geolocation and dispatch, multi-user collaboration, and other forms of real-time use cases are enjoyed by millions of people across the globe every day. Founded in 2010, over 2000 companies worldwide choose PubNub because of the speed, reliability, and scalability of our platform and because we help their customers feel more connected to one another, the brand, and the product experience.