PubNub

Build, manage, and optimize real-time apps at scale

PubNub was founded in 2010, is headquartered in San Francisco, United States, lists 201–500 employees, and has $123.5M in recorded funding across 6 rounds.

Employees
201–500
Founded
2010
Business Model
B2B
Website
pubnub.com
Total Funding
$123.5M
Last Round
$65.0M Series ENov 2021
Rounds
6

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About

PubNub is a real-time communication platform that helps companies build, manage, and optimize interactive applications at global scale. Its secure, low-latency network and developer tools support use cases such as in-app chat, live events, IoT device control, real-time updates, and push notifications, with worldwide latency under 100 milliseconds and up to 99.999% availability. More than 2,000 companies worldwide, including Amazon, RingCentral, Gameloft, and DAZN, use PubNub to launch scalable real-time features. Product teams rely on PubNub APIs and SDKs so they can focus on value creation without operating the underlying infrastructure.

Summary

PubNub is a Developer Tools company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2010. It lists 201–500 employees. It has raised $123.5M in total across 6 rounds, most recently a $65.0M Series E round in Nov 2021. Investors include Scale Venture Partners, Relay Ventures and Sapphire Ventures.

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Funding History

Series ESeries ENov 2021
$65.0M

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Funding: Seed through Series E. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.

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