Pieter de Villiers
FounderFounder at Clickatell · Former Portfolio Company - Member at Founder Collective
Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
FoundedClickatell
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Pieter de Villiers is a South African entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Clickatell, Inc., a global provider of application-to-person mobile messaging and mobile transactional services serving Fortune 500 companies and more than 13,000 smaller businesses across 224 countries and territories. He has over 21 years of experience in telecoms, mobile messaging, and mobile payments, and grew Clickatell into a profitable business with over $100 million in annual recurring revenue, backed by investors including Sequoia Capital. He founded the SiMODiSA initiative to support South African startups in 2013 and serves as a board member at Endeavor South Africa.
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- Who is Pieter de Villiers?
- Pieter de Villiers is a South African entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Clickatell, Inc., a global provider of application-to-person mobile messaging and mobile transactional services serving Fortune 500 companies and more than 13,000 smaller businesses across 224 countries and territories. He has over 21 years of experience in telecoms, mobile messaging, and mobile payments, and grew Clickatell into a profitable business with over $100 million in annual recurring revenue, backed by investors including Sequoia Capital. He founded the SiMODiSA initiative to support South African startups in 2013 and serves as a board member at Endeavor South Africa.
- Where does Pieter de Villiers work?
- Pieter de Villiers is Founder of Clickatell.
- What companies did Pieter de Villiers found?
- Pieter de Villiers founded Clickatell.
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University of Johannesburg mafia10
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