Nylas is a company offering a communications platform allows developers to quickly build features that connect to every email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world that is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2013 by Christine Spang, Gleb Polyakov, and Michael Grinich. Nylas offers an email API, calendar API, and a contacts API. The company claims their API platform can connect applications with every email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. Notable customers using Nylas include: Comcast, HubSpot, Hyundai, LogMeIn, SparkPost, Lever, Pipedrive, News Corp, FreshWorks, AdRoll, Clio, EllieMae, and Ceridian.
On July 7, 2014 Nylas announced raising $2 million in seed funding from Betaworks.
On January 27, 2015 Nylas announced raising $8 million in series A funding from Formation 8 (lead investor), SV Angel, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Fuel Capital, Data Collective DCVC, Augusta Investments LLC, Armando Mann, and Adeyemi Ajao. On December 20, 2017 Nylas announced raising an additional $4 million in series A funding from 8VC (lead investor), Tuesday Capital, Rubicon Venture Capital, Great Oaks Venture Capital, and Armando Mann.
On August 22, 2018 Nylas announced raising $16 million in series B funding from Spark Capital (lead investor), Slack Fund, ScaleUP Ventures, Rubicon Ventures, Industry Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, 8VC, and John Chambers.
Timeline
Nylas' series B round was co-led by 8VC and Round13, with participation from Slack Fund, Spark Capital, ScaleUp, and Citi Ventures.
Funding rounds
People
Adeyemi Ajao
Investor
Andrew Romans
Investor
Armando Mann
Investor
Ben Gotow
Employee
Christine Spang
Founder
Daniel Manesh
Employee
Dave Fetterman
Advisor
Deva Santiago
Advisor
Evan Morikawa
Employee
Gleb Polyakov
Employee
Greg Brockman
Investor
Halla Moore
Employee
Henry McNamara
Investor
Jeff Arnold
Investor
Jeremy Price
Employee
Karim Hamidou
Employee
Katja Younes
Employee
Kevin Webb
Investor
Kristina Oh
Employee
Lou Kaileh
Employee
Makala Keys
Employee
Margaret Karl
Employee
Michael Pfister
Employee
Rick Armbrust
Advisor
Russell Murphy
Employee