Kinvey provides an enterprise Backend as a Service (BaaS) platform offering identity management, integration with enterprise data sources, a data store and file store, custom business logic execution, and mobile engagement services. The platform targets IT departments, agencies, and developers to launch mobile, tablet, web, and Internet of Things apps. Kinvey's customers include Schneider Electric, Game Show Network, Holder Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Macquarie Bank, and VMware. The company is led by CEO Sravish Sridhar and is based in Boston, MA. Kinvey intends to use new funding to support product development, accelerate enterprise IT sales, and expand channel partnerships with a focus on cloud and systems integrator partners. Financially, the company has raised $17.8M in total, including the most recent $10.8M Series B. Kinvey provides a backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platform with unified APIs and developer libraries for iOS, Android, and JavaScript to bridge mobile and web apps with backend systems. Its service exposes a RESTful app data store, a CDN-enabled large file store, push notifications, geo-queries with third-party points-of-interest data, mobile analytics, backend versioning, user management, and data-level privacy and security controls. The platform is built to integrate legacy enterprise environments (such as RedHat JBOSS, SAP Netweaver, and Oracle) with modern cloud APIs and move data between apps and backend systems. Kinvey says its core data service can handle about 80% of backend developer needs and it is addressing the remainder incrementally. The company will use a significant portion of its new funding to build a worldwide developer community and to open-source "service links" that connect backend environments. Sravish Sridhar, Kinvey's CEO and Founder, framed the offering as "We are your back end dev team." Kinvey provides a Backend-as-a-Service that helps developers set up, use, and maintain cloud backends for mobile apps. Developers model their cloud backend needs and Kinvey auto-generates the APIs required to access data from any mobile, web, or computing platform. Developers then grab those APIs, add them into their app code, and are ready to deploy. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, MA. According to SEC filings reported in the article, Kinvey has raised $1,325,000. William Burnham is listed as a director of the company.

Total raised

$17M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2014