Mailgun

Mailgun Technologies, Inc. is an email delivery service for sending, receiving, and tracking emails. Mailgun Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2010 by Ev Kontsevoy and Taylor Wakefield. who were building an app for transactional email but realized this capability didn’t exist or didn’t work in other services. In 2011, Mailgun Technologies, Inc. was selected for Y Combinator’s 2011 class, accelerating the company’s product and growth with early funding from the creators of Yahoo Mail, Gmail, and others.Mailgun Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Rackspace in 2012 so their customers could easily integrate cloud-based email services into their applications and websites. In 2013, Mailgun launched their first email validations product.In 2017, Mailgun Technologies, Inc. became its own company, leaving Rackspace with $50M in growth capital from Turn/River Capital with participation from Scaleworks and Rackspace. Mailgun was acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2019. In December 2019, Mailgun acquired their European competitor Mailjet. In January 2021, Mailgun became a Pathwire brand alongside Mailjet and their validations services.
The Pathwire family of brands was shortly thereafter acquired by the Swedish company Sinch in September of 2021. In 2020, Will Conway, CEO of Mailgun, was one of the two Central Texas finalists for Ernst & Young’s yearly Entrepreneur of the Year award.In 2021, Inventiva magazine included Mailgun in their ’10 best SMTP start-up companies’ list.