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Here's the pitch deck that MessageBird — now worth $3 billion — used to raise its 2017 Series A to help companies chat or text with their customers

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Here's the pitch deck that $3 billion MessageBird used to raise $60 million to help companies communicate better with customers with chat, text, and more

Here's the pitch deck cloud communication startup MessageBird used to raise $60 million at a $3 billion valuation to help companies text their customers

Earlier this month, the cloud communications startup MessageBird announced a $200 million funding round that catapulted its valuation to $3 billion. 

Launched in Amsterdam in 2011, the firm helps companies around the world easily communicate with their customers using live chat, text, voice messages, and more. Today, MessageBird has roughly 20,000 customers, including Uber, Facebook, and SAP.

MessageBird plans to use the new funding to ramp up its international hiring and possibly acquire other companies as well. Its international presence has always been its strength "from Day One," says founder and CEO Robert Vis. Even in its early days, MessageBird has focused on winning over customers in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Read more: Cloud communications startup MessageBird just raised $200 million at a $3 billion valuation to expand internationally — and be ready to buy up struggling companies

"Everything has been the idea with being a global international company: That's where we're very strong," Vis told Business Insider. "As much as the world is starting to move more and more towards this, we still don't live in a world where you can text with the business."

Here's the pitch deck MessageBird used in 2017 to raised its Series A round of $60 million, which Accel led.

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Rosalie Chan is a senior editor for Business Insider's tech team. Previously, she covered cloud computing and enterprise tech, reporting on companies like Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Intel, Alibaba Cloud, Atlassian, GitHub, VMware, Broadcom, and more. She has written extensively on topics including cloud computing, developer companies, open source, and sexism and sexual harassment in the tech industry. She has received the San Francisco Press Club award for continuing coverage for her reporting on sexism and sexual harassment in Silicon Slopes and the Excellence in Business / Consumer / Tech Reporting award from the Asian American Journalists Association for her investigation into the coding boot camp Holberton School. Most recently, she was an editor on the Business Insider investigative package, The True Cost of Data Centers, which received a George Polk Award and an honorable mention from SABEW.Rosalie joined Business Insider after working as a software engineer and freelance journalist. She studied journalism, computer science, and technology and business law at Northwestern University. Her work has previously appeared in TIME, the Huffington Post, VICE, Pacific Standard, Inverse, Chicago magazine, the Chicago Reporter, and more. She's based in San Francisco.