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QuickBlox pivoting and (not) raising money history, from web/databasing consultancy to mobile apps consultancy to online leaderboards platform to mBaaS (cloud backend platform) to cloud communication platform.
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From Leaderboards to Cloud
Communication
(Taras Filatov, director, QuickBlox, VC Summit, London, 17th January 2014)
We started in app development and got tired of reinventing the wheel..
History: how it started
History: iCombat 2009
History: iGetScores (open-source)
iOS library + PHP-based server-side API
2009
History: iGetScores (product) 2009-2010
History: leaderboards product -> cloud backend product
iGetScores Mob1serv
LEADERBOARDS mBaaS
+ USERS+ PUSH NOTIIFCATIONS+ CMS
History: Mob1serv BaaS January 2011
History: Mob1serv BaaS 2010-2011
History: Mob1serv BaaS 2011
History: Mob1serv BaaS 2011
Chat&
Presence
ContentNotifications Ratings
QuickBlox is an enterprise mBaaS cloud providing Communication and Backend services for any application together with APIs, SDKs and code samples:
UsersLocationVideo Communication
About: QuickBlox makes communication mobile and app ready
QuickBlox.com
Bloggers and journalists name QuickBlox among 11-13 leaders out of 31 BaaS players (while others “try to play catch up”)
http://apievangelist.com/2013/02/26/75-features-from-across-31-baas-providers/
http://apievangelist.com/2013/02/26/baas-provider-quickblox-offers-unlimited-api-calls-and-push-notifications/
http://readwrite.com/2012/04/17/mobile-backend-as-a-service-ec
About: QuickBlox is a leading BaaS provider
Palo Alto Q4 2013
• New Enterprise Associates• Sequoia Capital• Andreessen Horowitz• Summit Capital• FirstMarkCapital
$45m -> $85m?Isn’t worth the paperwork!
QuickBlox is the 1st BaaS to launch Video Calling (VideoChat SDK)
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/02/20/quickblox/
About: QuickBlox is unique among other BaaS competitors providing in Communication as a Service
http://quickblox.com/
– as featured by TheNextWeb, 20th Feb 2013
Unified Communications market was valued at USD 22.8 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach USD 61.9 billion in 2018, growing at a CAGR of 15.7%
This is driven by “Mobile work-force and enterprise mobility & the proliferation of mobile devices capable of video communication”
Unified Communication Market Growth (EMEA)
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About: Unified Communication / Communication as a Service market
BAAS market
+
Big Market Opportunity for QuickBlox
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About: BaaS + Communication as a Service = HUGE market opportunity for QuickBlox
Unified Communication market
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Most visitors to QuickBlox website come from India, US, UK, China, Russia, Spain,
Italy, Canada, Australia
About: Worldwide demand & interest for our products
About: Product markets itself – organic traffic growth
Most of direct traffic comes from technical resources such as StackOverflow:
Traffic from search engines continues to grow (May/June ’13)
3rd place in Google on “video chat ios” (June ‘13)
Most QuickBlox users and clients come from organicsearch engine traffic.
On average 30-40 new developers sign up every day, w/o PPC/ads investment
Clients: Developers sign ups (per day)
Clients: Developers sign ups (trending)
• QuickBlox now has 7,605 developers signed up and growing• Some developers have multiple apps in their QuickBlox dashboard• Many apps have thousands / millions of end users
Clients: Chat API calls
People love to chat!
Clients: Enterprise
Out-of-the-box communication for iOS, Android and Web
Contacts
Address & Telephone
QuickBlox, 8 Warner Yard, Clerkenwell, London, EC1R 5EY,United Kingdom
+44 (0) 770 822 0953 +44 (0) 203 053 0660 (London)
http://quickblox.com/ [email protected]
Twitter: @quickbloxFacebook: /quickbloxYoutube: /QuickBlox
