Item 1. | Security and Issuer. |
This Schedule 13D (this “Schedule 13D”) relates to the Class A common shares, par value $0.00005 per share (the “Class A Common Shares”), of Zenvia Inc. (the “Issuer”). The Issuer’s principal executive office is located at Avenida Paulista, 2300, 18th Floor, Suites 182 and 184, São Paulo, São Paulo, 01310-300, Brazil.
Item 2. | Identity and Background |
This Schedule 13D is being filed by Twilio Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Twilio”). Twilio’s principal business office is located at 101 Spear Street, First Floor, San Francisco, California 94105.
Twilio is the leader in the Cloud Communications Platform category. Twilio enables developers to build, scale and operate real-time communications within their software applications via its simple-to-use Application Programming Interfaces (“API”). The power, flexibility, and reliability offered by Twilio’s software building blocks empowers companies of virtually every shape and size to build world-class engagement into their customer experience.
Set forth on Annex A to this Schedule 13D, and incorporated herein by reference, is a list of the executive officers and directors of Twilio which contains the following information with respect to each such person: (a) name, (b) business address, (c) present principal occupation or employment and the name, principal business and address of the corporation or other organization in which such employment is conducted, and (d) citizenship.
During the last five years, neither Twilio nor, to the best of Twilio’s knowledge, any of the persons listed on Annex A has been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors) or has been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction as a result of which such person was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such laws.
Item 3. | Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration |
The source and amount of the funds used to purchase the Class A Common Shares reported herein by Twilio were available working capital of Twilio in the amount of $50,000,000. No funds were borrowed or otherwise obtained for the purpose of acquiring, holding, trading or voting the securities.
Item 4. | Purpose of Transaction |
The purpose of the acquisitions of the Class A Common Shares by the Reporting Persons described herein was to make an investment in the Issuer. Except as set forth below, at the present time the Reporting Persons have no plans or proposals which relate to or would result in (a) the acquisition by any person of additional securities of the Issuer, or the disposition of securities of the Issuer, (b) an extraordinary corporate transaction, such as a merger, reorganization or liquidation, involving the Issuer or any of it is subsidiaries, (c) a sale or transfer of a material amount of assets of the Issuer or any of its subsidiaries, (d) any change in the present board of directors or management of the Issuer, including any plans or proposals to change the number or term of directors or to fill any existing vacancies on the board, (e) any material change in the present capitalization or dividend policy of the Issuer, (f) any other material change in the Issuer’s business or corporate structure, (g) changes in the Issuer’s charter, bylaws or instruments corresponding thereto or other actions which may impede the acquisition of control of the Issuer by any person, (h) causing a class of securities of the Issuer to be delisted from a national securities exchange or to cease to be authorized to be quoted in an inter-dealer quotation system of a registered national securities association, (i) a class of equity securities of the Issuer becoming eligible for termination of registration pursuant to Section 12(g)(4) of the Exchange Act or (j) any action similar to any of those enumerated above.
On July 29, 2021, Twilio purchased 3,846,153 Class A Common Shares from the Issuer for a purchase price of $13.00 per share pursuant to a Subscription Agreement dated July 8, 2021 (the “Subscription Agreement”) for an aggregate purchase price of $50,000,000.
All references to the Subscription Agreement described above are qualified in their entirety by the full text of such agreement, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit A hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.
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