improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources plivo news newspapers books scholar jstor free images november 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . june 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message plivo type private industry telecommunications founded september 2011 headquarters san francisco bangalore united states india key people venky balasubramanian co founder michael ricordeau co founder website plivo.com plivo which dubs itself as the amazon of telephony 1 is a cloud based api platform for building voice and sms enabled applications . 2 it is a y combinator backed telephony startup that offers an api platform for voice and sms applications which raised 1.75 million in seed funding from andreessen horowitz battery ventures qualcomm incorporated and sv angel in december 2012 . 3 4 contents 1 services 2 developer api 3 competitors 4 references 5 external links services edit together with the plivo cloud the company also distributes plivo framework opensource under the terms of the mozilla public license version 1.1 . 5 developer api edit plivo provides application programming interfaces apis to make and receive calls send sms make a conference call and more . these apis are used in conjunction with xml responses to control the flow of a call or a message . developers can create session initiation protocol sip endpoints to perform the telephony operations and the apis are platform independent and can be used in any programming environment such as php ruby python etc. it also provides helper libraries for these programming languages . 6 competitors edit founded on september 2011 plivo was able to acquire its first paying customer on october 2011 7 although it faces the major competition from twilio an established provider in a similar domain . references edit how silicon valley fosters plivo s cloud based telephony forbes coverage . crunchbase profile . may 22 2013 . yc backed telephony startup plivo raises 1.75 m from andreessen horowitz battery ventures qualcomm inc. & sv angel . december 3 2012 . voice and messaging apps platform provider plivo raises seed round from andreessen horowitz battery ventures qualcomm and sv angel . plivo framework opensource telephony application prototyping platform . developer api documentation . forbes coverage . external links edit official page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title plivo & oldid 743699623 categories cloud communication platformscompanies based in san francisco2011 establishments in californiahidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from november 2014all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles needing additional references from june 2013all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view