Segment timeline 15

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20261 event

reported 2026-02Founded
Kelvin French-Owen founded Segment
“before that he started Segment” 0:54
Unverified1 source· Talk

20241 event

reported 2024-10Acquired
Twilio acquired Segment
“It was bought by Twilio for like $3 billion.” 10:03
Unverified1 source· Talk

20231 event

as of Apr 2023Capability
Launched repeatedly, expanding support in response to user feedback.
“they kept launching every week” 21:35
Unverified1 source· Talk

20221 event

as of Dec 2022Acquired
Twilio acquired Segment
more than $3 billion
“acquisition by Twilio for more than $3 billion” 31:15
Unverified1 source· Talk

20193 events

as of Aug 2019Capability
Data collection tool
“It's a data collection tool.” 25:37
Unverified1 source· Talk
as of Aug 2019Capability
Analytics API for sending analytics data and toggling on different tools
“It's an analytics API where you can send analytics data and then toggle on different tools.” 0:18
Unverified1 source· Talk
as of Aug 2019Founded
Ilya Volodarsky founded Segment
co-founder
“I'm one of the co-founders at Segment” 0:00
Unverified1 source· Talk

20187 events

October

as of Oct 2018Capability
A single API for sending customer data to multiple analytics and other tools.
A single API for sending customer data to multiple analytics and other tools.
“The idea was that you'd use the same API to send us data as you would to Mixpanel, KISSmetrics, Google Analytics, and all these other tools.” 13:40
Unverified1 source· Talk

September

as of Sep 2018People
Peter Reinhardt is Co-founder at Segment
“My co-founder, Ilya” 10:17
Unverified1 source· Talk
as of Sep 2018Capability
JavaScript libraries, iOS SDK, and Android SDK are open source; the core infrastructure pipeline is not
“Our JavaScript libraries are open source, our iOS SDK is open source, and our Android SDK is open source.” 16:30
Unverified1 source· Talk
reported 2018-09Launch
Segment launched Redshift
Redshift connector
“We just built a way to load data directly from Segment into a Redshift cluster.” 14:26
Unverified1 source· Talk
as of Sep 2018Capability
Routes customer data to downstream services, including analytics tools, marketing tools, data warehouses, CRMs, and help desks
“we’d transform it and fan it out to all the places downstream” 2:24
Unverified1 source· Talk
reported 2018-09Launch
Segment launched Analytics.js
Open-source data routing library
“we launched as an open-source library on Hacker News” 1:36
Unverified1 source· Talk
as of Sep 2018Capability
Creates a single record of customer interactions across digital and offline channels
“We help bridge that gap by creating a single record of all those interactions with each customer.” 0:04
Unverified1 source· Talk

Undated1 event