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ticker: "TWLO"
cik: "0001447669"
company_name: "TWILIO INC"
filed_at: "2022-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Twilio invests $750M in Syniverse for minority stake, forms wholesale A2P messaging partnership

## Summary
- Twilio invested $750 million in Syniverse for common equity; Carlyle remains majority owner.
- Syniverse raised $1.025B in new term loan debt and $340M preferred equity to reduce leverage.
- Wholesale agreement: Syniverse will route application-to-person (A2P) messages for Twilio customers.
- Transaction closed on May 13, 2022; press release issued May 16, 2022.
- Twilio SVP Simon Khalaf cites accelerated innovation in mobile communications and long-term growth.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-151997
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TWLO
- cik: 0001447669
- company_name: TWILIO INC
- filed_at: 2022-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1447669/000119312522151997/0001193125-22-151997-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1447669/000119312522151997/d276115d8k.htm

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