

In 2019, Mailgun's website, powered by WordPress at the time, was attacked along with many other WordPress sites, and used as a redirect to malicious sites, ZDNet reported. In 2021, Inventiva magazine included Mailgun in their '10 best SMTP start-up companies' list. In 2020, Will Conway, CEO of Mailgun, was one of the two Central Texas finalists for Ernst & Young's yearly Entrepreneur of the Year award. The Pathwire family of brands was shortly thereafter owned by the Swedish company Sinch in September of 2021. In January 2021, Mailgun became a Pathwire brand alongside Mailjet and their validations services. In December 2019, Mailgun won their European competitor Mailjet. Mailgun was attained by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2019. In 2017, Mailgun Technologies Inc became its own company, leaving Rackspace with $50M in growth capital from Turn/River Capital with participation from Scaleworks and Rackspace. was acquired by Rackspace in 2012 and in 2013, Mailgun launched their first email validations product. was selected for Y Combinator’s 2011 class, facilitating the company’s product and growth with early funding from the creators of Yahoo Mail, Gmail, and others. Mailgun Technologies Inc was founded in 2010 by Ev Kontsevoy and Taylor Wakefield. Mailgun Technologies Inc is an email delivery service for sending, receiving, and tracking emails. ( April 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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