Urban Airship Raises $21 Million

By Dan Anderson • Feb 24, 2015

Urban Airship is a company that enables brands to build relationships with their connect customers through their mobile relationship management technology. Urban Airship has raised a $21 million round of funding. Investors in this round include August Capital, Foundry Group, Franklin Park Associates, QuestMark Partners, True Ventures, and Verizon Ventures. Urban Airship has now raised a total of $67.6 million in funding.

The company doubled its customer base in 2014 and announced the appointments for three new executive roles. The new executives include Erin Hintz as CMO and Mike Musson as SVP of strategy & business development. And Brent Hieggelke has been named chief mobile evangelist.

“With today’s executive appointments we’re expanding our leadership capacity to focus more deeply on our customers and the market as we scale our business globally,” said Urban Airship CEO and president Brett Caine. “We’re bringing on executives with strong, proven leadership to drive mobile-first innovations that re-imagine consumers? mobile experiences and the business results they achieve for our customers.”