StackMob is a fully hosted and managed cloud platform designed to ease development and deployment of mobile applications, positioned as a 'Heroku for mobile.' The platform offers services developers can integrate such as OAuth, social services (Twitter, Facebook), storage (Joyent, Amazon), advertising, messaging including Push, APIs, and analytics. StackMob operates under a freemium model and is currently in private beta. It currently supports iOS and plans to extend functionality to Android. The company raised $7.5M in new funding and will use the proceeds for additional hiring, product development, and to build support for additional platforms. The reported round was led by Trinity Ventures with participation from existing investors Harrison Metal and Baseline Ventures. StackMob offers a cloud-based system that handles mobile application backend needs—OAuth, social integrations, storage, advertising, messaging (including Push), APIs, and analytics—so developers can avoid rebuilding common services. The product is presented as a Heroku-like platform for mobile, with a freemium model that charges only when apps are deployed based on usage. At launch the service focuses on iOS with plans to support additional mobile platforms such as Android. The company ran a small alpha in late November/early December and planned a beta by late February or early March. StackMob was founded and run by Ty Amell and Pouyan Salehi (Salehi is ex-Apple) and operates as a five-person team in San Francisco. Financially, the company completed a seed financing in May 2010, though the amount was not disclosed.

Total raised

$8M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

May 2011