SendGrid announces partnership with ProfitBricks

BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SendGrid, the cloud-based email delivery service, today announced its partnership with ProfitBricks, the Cloud Computing - Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) company. The partnership is a strategic milestone for both companies with SendGrid continuing expansion efforts with a leading IaaS provider and ProfitBricks referring customers with transactional email to SendGrid to solve their customers' email deliverability challenges.

Launched in 2009, SendGrid has quickly emerged as a leader in transactional email, sending over 9 billion emails per month for over 150,000 customers, which include Pinterest, Spotify, Airbnb, and Foursquare. ProfitBricks, founded in 2010, has rapidly expanded its second generation Cloud Computing footprint in Europe and the U.S.  It's recent price drop and continued performance leadership puts ProfitBricks in the enviable position as Cloud Computing's price/performance leader.

Through the partnership, ProfitBricks' customers will benefit from SendGrid's SMTP services and APIs, email deliverability features, best-of-class customer support, and advanced analytics.  ProfitBricks' customers can take advantage of SendGrid's advanced deliverability features, including their own dedicated IP address, whitelist services, ISP deliverability outreach, feedback loops and more, as well as Sub-User, Parse and Event APIs.   

ProfitBricks' flexible and performance focused Cloud architecture allows developers to pay only for the Cloud Computing resources that they actually consume. ProfitBricks' innovation also includes multiple methods for creating and managing virtual data centers including a unique drag-and-drop Data Center Design tool and APIs. This partnership will generate significant value to SendGrid's business and customers.

Commenting on the partnership, Jim Franklin, CEO of SendGrid, said:

"This is an exciting time for SendGrid as we continue to implement our global expansion strategy and build our presence in the fast-growing cloud computing market. We are delighted to be working closely with ProfitBricks, a recognised market-leader in IaaS innovation. I am confident that our partnership will grow and mature as we work together to help businesses solve email deliverability challenges globally."

Achim Weiss, Co-founder and CEO of ProfitBricks, commented:

"We've been seeing an increasing demand from customers that need to send email from their SaaS and Web applications hosted in our data centers. Our partnership with SendGrid alleviates the challenges and headaches our customers face when setting up and managing their own SMTP servers. SendGrid provides ProfitBricks' customers access to all the necessary email deliverability capabilities for their applications via APIs, allowing them to focus on their business and application instead of managing email servers."

About SendGrid

SendGrid is a cloud-based email service that delivers marketing, transactional and enterprise emails on behalf of companies. Built upon the world's largest email delivery infrastructure, SendGrid's solutions provide customers with the industry's best reliability, scalability and email deliverability.

SendGrid's API makes custom integration quick and easy for businesses looking to eliminate the need to build, scale and maintain the infrastructure in-house. Actionable real-time analytics on transactional and marketing email campaigns help businesses large and small make the right business decisions.

Thousands of companies use SendGrid's platform to deliver billions of transactional and marketing emails every month, these include foursquare, Pinterest, Airbnb, Twilio, Spotify and Pandora. For more information, visit the SendGrid website.

About ProfitBricks

ProfitBricks – the IaaS price and performance leader who introduced Cloud Computing 2.0 - offers more speed, flexibility and value than any other cloud provider. Founded in 2010 by the co-founders of the 1& 1 Internet Web Hosting business, ProfitBricks enables customers to build true virtual data centers with custom defined instances, live vertical scaling and class-leading double redundant cloud storage – all with simple and transparent minute-based billing. It also developed the first graphical Data Center Designer that makes the ProfitBricks Cloud Computing service the easiest to set up and maintain. CRN Magazine recently picked ProfitBricks as the "Coolest Startup" of 2012. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany and Boston, Mass., ProfitBricks can be found online at www.profitbricks.com.

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