8 ms·
We've raised a $5.6M Series A from Union Square Ventures and Flybridge
- anandkulkarni 13y agoThrilled to have watched this product and this team grow to this phase. This technology still amazes me. Keep on killing it, guys!
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- rmorrison 13y agoCongrats!
- rmanalan 13y agoAwesome job guys! Congrats!
- dakrisht 13y agoCongrats guys, haven't heard of your platform before, definitely trying your real-time chat API shortly. Looking into how your product compares with Parse...
- prayag 13y agoThese guys, they are amazing entrepreneurs. I don't say that lightly. Read about James and Andrew story in Haiti here http://darineich.com/startups-beanbags-earthquakes-and-fires-the-james-tamplin-story/ http://darineich.com/startups-beanbags-earthquakes-and-fires...
- loceng 13y agoSounds like a good match with USV.
- dirkk0 13y agoThanks for the link, I didn't know about this story - I just received an email from James and now I feel even more honored. I am doing quite a lot with Firebase these days and this makes me want to use it even more. Come to think of it, this surprises me.
- gailees 13y agoHell yeah :)
- gailees 13y agoLoving the iOS SDK. That's 100% the way to go. Parse for real-time apps.
- friendstock 13y agoCongratulations James and Andrew, from a long-time user of Envolve (the precursor to Firebase).
- dataisfun 13y agoWay to make me feel stupid for missing the seed :)
- yesimahuman 13y agoCongrats guys, that's a lot of cash!
- X4 13y agoFirebase tried it so hard. Had opensource competitors and they still succeeded. Let this be a lesson to everyone else. To a firebase hater, I know someone indirectly, whose product you bought and silenced. No good move, sir.
- mathattack 13y ago"Albert was the only investor we pitched who immediately made a Firebase app" Now that's kind of cool for a VC!
- pg 13y agoHe's one of a tiny minority of VC partners who actually write code. His site is http://continuations.com http://continuations.com.
- gailees 13y agoVCs code!?
- tlrobinson 13y agoA tiny minority of them do.
- loceng 13y agoThe wiser ones seem to be developers themselves, creative problem solvers - at least at one point.
- beat 13y agoMany are former developers/entrepreneurs. Now they're VCs. Maybe they wised up? :P)
- loceng 13y agoHa. Well, it's a natural progression I feel if you're an idea person - you end up with too many ideas than you could ever do on your own, so instead you can support teams that are highly passionate, and working on problems you (hopefully) understand.
- acjohnson55 13y agoYou should take a minute read about the dude whose comment you replied to
- tptacek 13y agoTrivia: Chip Hazard is also one of the VC "bad guys" in Phil Greenspun's writing about the downfall of Ars Digita: http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/ http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/ Edit: I have no idea if that actually means something; it's just a name I remember from Greenspun's writing.
- rdouble 13y agoI'd take that article with a grain of salt. There's much omitted from that account and it happened 12 years ago.
- larrys 13y agoWhat's your take on this? From the fact that you are pointing this out would you say he hasn't changed his spots? (I know nothing about him which is why I am asking..)
- tptacek 13y agoNo idea at all. Edited the comment to make that clearer. I have zero professional exposure to any of these people.
- larrys 13y agoOn USV, my dealings have shown them to be incredibly hands off. Had a case where I made a deal suggestion to USV v. one of their famous investments. They said "I've thought they should do something like this for years, they won't but we respect that it's their decision". (Or something like that not an exact quote obviously..) Which is to bad (for me) because that investment recently had a big big announcement.
- programminggeek 13y agoChip Hazard is a great name, like something out of a 90's PC game, like Duke Nukem or something.
- thirit 13y ago
- larrys 13y agoNice marketing on their web site. (Need to update the investor page though, currently not showing USV./) https://www.firebase.com/about.html https://www.firebase.com/about.html
- anant 13y agoFixed :) https://www.firebase.com/about.html https://www.firebase.com/about.html
- ozgune 13y agoI love what these guys are doing and their technology. Congrats guys!
- guiseppecalzone 13y agoThis is an incredible team. The reason why I love seeing this is because these guys fall squarely in the category of work hard, iterate for years and get rewarded. This wasn't an overnight success. Rather, it's the result of an extremely smart team committed to making something great. I'm really excited to see what they come up with over the next few years.
- gailees 13y agoBackends are a thing of the past.
- brandonb 13y agoThe Firebase team is amazing, congrats to them!
- atjoslin 13y agoYay! Just started using Firebase on a new project of mine a couple weeks ago, and loving it. I'm glad to see it's certain to be lasting :-)
- d0m 13y agoYep, very happy for you guys. If I wasn't working on my own stuff, Firebase would clearly be the very first startup I'd apply to work with.
- programminggeek 13y agoI find it amazing that a company can get over $5 million without yet charging for their product. But then again, they kind of just did get people to pay for their product, just not customers/end users...
- beat 13y agoThe investors clearly see a payoff down the road. It happens, you know.
- loceng 13y agoAnd these investors are pretty good at seeing where things are going, understanding their value - and then supporting them to get there.
- wr0ng 13y agoThey're not. The baseline probability of profitability for these types of companies is incredibly small. However, the potential profit that you might make for any one of these companies is extremely high (usually by selling the company, not by the company's inherent ability to turn a profit) - so invest in multiple companies and if you're lucky the 'big one' will beat your losses many times over.
- acjohnson55 13y agoAre people mostly developing full sites on Firebase, or just mini-apps?
- Kiro 13y agoI love Firebase but I don't see how I could build a serious web app without server-side logic. How do you for example handle validation?
- mikelehen 13y agoWe let you define server-side logic (for security and validation specifically) using our Security Rules API: https://www.firebase.com/docs/security/security-rules.html https://www.firebase.com/docs/security/security-rules.html
- pewallin 13y agoNode.js and Firebase work very well together.
- lancewiggs 13y agoI'm interested in the pricing decision. How big is the market for apps that are popular but free or unable to support the higher prices? I wonder if any thought went into a plan for them?
- benologist 13y agoThey have a free plan, the onus is on you to stay within those limits or upgrade.
- badclient 13y agoI like this investment a lot more than andreessen horowitz' Meteor investment.
- imslavko 13y agoWell, why?
- michaeldwan 13y agoThis is great news. I think we've only seen the beginning of what these guys are building.
- nateps 13y agoCongrats! Glad to see you ended up with such excellent investors, and will be looking forward to continued improvements in Firebase! Looking forward to more progress making all web apps realtime.
- apapli 13y agoCongratulations team! Question for readers - how does an individual get to become an investor in these sorts of rounds? I note Union Square led this round, but there's no place for me to register my interest in funding similar projects on their web site (nor most other VCs from what I can tell). Is it a case of hanging out with the right people and have $1m plus to burn (which I don't) or is there another way?
- rdouble 13y agoMostly being an accredited investor and hobnobbing with the right people
- rusyasoft 13y agoHow about backend of Firebase? Can you guys tell something about it ? (Just Curious :)))
- jhchrist 13y agoI heard that Flybridge was unable to raise money for another fund and that they're "on fumes."