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Firebase evolved from Envolve, a prior startup founded by Tamplin and Lee in 2011. Envolve provided developers an API that let them integrate online chat into their websites. After releasing the chat service, Tamplin and Lee found that the service was being used to pass application data that wasn't chat messages. Developers were using Envolve to sync application data like game state in realtime across their users.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.fastcolabs.com/3031109/sometimes-youre-just-one-hop-from-something-huge|title = Sometimes You're Just One Hop From Something Huge|date = May 27, 2014|accessdate = June 11, 2014|website = |publisher = [[Fast Company]]|last = Melendez|first = Steven}}</ref> |
Firebase evolved from Envolve, a prior startup founded by Tamplin and Lee in 2011. Envolve provided developers an API that let them integrate online chat into their websites. After releasing the chat service, Tamplin and Lee found that the service was being used to pass application data that wasn't chat messages. Developers were using Envolve to sync application data like game state in realtime across their users.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.fastcolabs.com/3031109/sometimes-youre-just-one-hop-from-something-huge|title = Sometimes You're Just One Hop From Something Huge|date = May 27, 2014|accessdate = June 11, 2014|website = |publisher = [[Fast Company (magazine)]]|last = Melendez|first = Steven}}</ref> |
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Tamplin and Lee decided to separate the chat system and the real-time architecture that powered it, founding Firebase as a separate company in April 2012. |
Tamplin and Lee decided to separate the chat system and the real-time architecture that powered it, founding Firebase as a separate company in April 2012. |
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| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | September 2011[1] |
| Headquarters | , |
| Area served | Global |
| Founder(s) | James Tamplin, Andrew Lee[3] |
| Industry | Cloud computing |
| Products | Firebase Database, Firebase Hosting, Firebase Simple Login |
| URL | firebase.com |
| Launched | April 2012[4] |
Firebase is a cloud services provider and backend as a service company based in San Francisco, California. The company makes a number of products for software developers building mobile or web applications. Firebase was founded in 2011 by Andrew Lee and James Tamplin and launched it's first service, a realtime cloud database, in April 2012. [6]
Firebase provides a API to store and sync data across multiple clients in realtime
History
Firebase evolved from Envolve, a prior startup founded by Tamplin and Lee in 2011. Envolve provided developers an API that let them integrate online chat into their websites. After releasing the chat service, Tamplin and Lee found that the service was being used to pass application data that wasn't chat messages. Developers were using Envolve to sync application data like game state in realtime across their users.[7]
Tamplin and Lee decided to separate the chat system and the real-time architecture that powered it, founding Firebase as a separate company in April 2012.
Firebase raised $1.4 million in seed funding in May 2012 from Flybridge Capital Partners, Greylock Partners, NEA and others and $5.6 million in Series A funding from Union Square Ventures and Flybridge Capital in June 2013[8]
References
- ^ "Firebase - CrunchBase". CrunchBase. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
- ^ "Contact Us". Firebase, Inc.
- ^ "Firebase - AngelList". AngelList. Retrieved Jun 11, 2014.
- ^ "Developers, Meet Firebase!". Firebase, Inc. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
- ^ "Firebase.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
- ^ Metz, Cade. "'Firebase' Does for Apps What Dropbox Did for Docs". Wired (magazine).
- ^ Melendez, Steven (May 27, 2014). "Sometimes You're Just One Hop From Something Huge". Fast Company (magazine). Retrieved June 11, 2014.
- ^ Darrow, Barb (June 6, 2013). "Firebase gets $5.6M to launch its paid product and fire up its base". Gigaom. Retrieved June 11, 2014.