Robert Vis

Since founding MessageBird in 2011, Robert has been at the frontlines of disrupting the trillion dollar telecom industry. Bootstrapped and profitable from inception, MessageBird provides cloud communications APIs, including SMS, Voice and Chat, that connect global enterprises to their customers worldwide. In 2017 they raised a $60 million Series A led by Accel in San Francisco with participation from Atomico in London, marking the largest Series A of any European software firm or Y Combinator alum to date. A true entrepreneur at heart, Robert believes in employee empowerment, staying scrappy, moving fast and breaking things. Prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which primarily focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their mobile phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), later Velti (VELT Nasdaq), now mGage in 2011).