Airship (software company), formerly Urban Airship, is a San Francisco, California-based company that offers mobile customer experience and messaging services to its clients. Airship enables businesses to create personalized messages that can be delivered to customers through various channels, such as push notifications and SMS messaging. In addition to messaging services, the company provides customer analytics services to help clients better understand their customers' behavior and preferences.
, Airship has offices in Portland, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, New York City, London, Paris, New Delhi, Munich, and Singapore.
On February 6, 2013 the company announced additional funding of $25 million from Foundry Group, Intel Capital, True Ventures and Verizon. In October 2014 the company announced another $12.1 million in Series D funding from existing investors. In February 2015 the company picked up an additional $9 million in venture funding, bringing total funding to $67.6 million. In June 2018 the company completed an F round of funding at $25 million led by Foundry Group.
In July 2014, Scott Kveton stepped down as CEO. In October of that same year Brett Caine was hired as CEO. Caine was previously the president of Citrix Online. In November 2016, Airship launched two messaging APIs Open Channels and Open Profiles. In September 2018, Airship released beta SDK for iOS.
In June 2019, the company rebranded as Airship (formally being Urban Airship).
In 2025, Airship was included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Marketing Hubs.
In December 2012, Airship acquired Tello, another True Ventures-backed startup. Airship acquired Tello in an all-stock deal in order to integrate PassTools, Tello's Apple Passbook management product, into its current offering.
The company purchased SMS commerce company, ReplyBuy in September 2020 for an undisclosed amount.
In August 2019, Airship acquired Apptimize, a user experience testing company based in San Francisco.
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