App Infrastructure Startup Firebase Raises $5.6M From Union Square And Flybridge

Firebase, a Y Combinator-backed startup that offers infrastructure for real-time apps, is taking the stage today at GigaOm's Structure conference, where it's announcing that it has raised a $5.6 million Series A from Union Square Ventures and Flybridge Capital Partners. As CEO and co-founder James Tamplin first explained a year ago, Firebase aims to enable developers to create web and mobile apps "really, really fast without worrying about servers or writing server code" ? you just write front-end code and let Firebase handle the backend. In the past few months, the company has opened the platform to all developers, released a software development kit for iOS, and launched its first module, Firepad (a real-time text editor).

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