Sending transactional emails may seem like a solved problem. Sendgrid, Postmark, Mailgun and others offer dependable email APIs for developers, after all. However, many of those companies have also been acquired in the last few years and haven’t necessarily kept up with the latest development trends — or at least that’s what startups like Resend are betting on.
Resend, which participated in the Y Combinator Winter ’23 batch, today announced a $3 million seed funding round. While Y Combinator and SV Angel participated in this round, the team mostly focused on raising from a wide range of angel investors, including Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, Figma’s Dylan Field, Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch, Supabase’s Paul Copplestone, and Segment founder Calvin French-Owen.
Resend, which is also the company behind the popular React Email open-source project, provides developers with an API to build email support into their...
