Flotype
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Flotype was a Berkeley-based developer-tools company building real-time messaging infrastructure. Its enterprise product Bridge let developers connect any server to any device with real-time loads, and its open-source NowJS framework made it easy to build real-time web apps with JavaScript and Node.js. The company was founded by UC Berkeley dropouts Darshan Shankar, Eric Zhang and Sridatta Thatipamala and went through Y Combinator.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Darshan Shankar, Eric Zhang and Sridatta Thatipamala found Flotype in Berkeley, California, building real-time messaging middleware and the NowJS framework.
- Seed funding
Flotype raises $1.4 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Yuri Milner, Salesforce.com and Y Combinator.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Flotype raised $1.4 million in seed funding in January 2012.
- 02
The Y Combinator startup database marks Flotype as dead, but no dated closure event is publicly documented.
- 03
No reliable loss figure with a clear subject, period and basis exists, so no loss amount is recorded.