Ably is a provider of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and APIs to help developers simplify and overcome complex and demanding realtime engineering.

Ably makes it easy to power and scale realtime features in apps (chat, realtime updates, device control etc.), or distribute data streams to third party developers as realtime APIs (transit, sports, financial data etc).

Ably was founded in 2016 by Matthew O’Riordan and Paddy Byers. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

 

Ably provides a network with 15 geographically distributed core routing datacenters and 205 edge acceleration points-of-presence to deliver low-latency, real-time data for chat, data and analytics, internet of things deployments, and updates and notifications.

 

Ably automatically translates between messaging protocols, offering managed integrations that connect with existing cloud services including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.  

 

Ably serves 500 customers across 80 countries, is being used by HubSpot to power live chat, updates, and analytics for millions of users. BlueJeans taps Ably to initiate calls, while Toyota uses it to make performance adjustments to race cars mid-race.

 

Ably is backed by Insight Partners, Dawn Capital, Triple Point, MMC Ventures,Digital Horizon, Forward Partners, and others. The company raised $70M in Series B round on Jun 30, 2021. This brings Ably's total funding to $78.3M to date.

 

 

  • Year founded: 2016
  • Funding Info: $78.3M over 3 Rounds (Latest Funding Type: Series B)
  • Yearly Revenue: NA
  • Employee Size: 51-200
  • Business Valuation: NA
  • City/Town: London
  • State: London
  • Country: United Kingdom
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