Headquarters Menlo Park, CA, USA Founded 1 June 2011 | Website parse.com Parent organization Facebook, Inc. | |
Founders James Yu, Tikhon Bernstam, Kevin Lacker, Ilya Sukhar | ||
Parse is a Mobile Backend as a Service provider based in Menlo Park, CA.
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Parse was founded in 2011 by Tikhon Bernstam, Ilya Sukhar, James Yu, and Kevin Lacker, previously at Google and Y Combinator. The firm produces back-end tools for mobile developers that help mobile developers store data in the cloud, manage identity log-ins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud.
On November 9, 2011, it raised $5.5 million in venture capital funding. In 2012, its tools were being used by 20,000 mobile developers and that number was growing at 40% monthly. On Sept 11, 2012, it added the ability to create custom code on the back end.
Fast Company named Parse one of the top 50 most innovative companies of 2013.
Facebook acquired the firm for $85 million in 2013.
In 2014, Parse was reported to power 500,000 mobile apps.
On 28 January 2016, Facebook announced that it will close down Parse, with services effectively shutting down on 28 January 2017. The service operated until 30 January 2017, at which point all users needed to have migrated their applications to other platforms. Parse did open the application source code in order to allow users to perform the migration and release Parse Server. A range of vendors like Back4app, www.stamplay.com, AWS are able to host Parse applications, providing migration alternatives.
Prior to the Build 2016 Conference, Microsoft announced a Parse Server on Azure Managed Services, as an easy way for developers to migrate from the soon-to-be-defunct Facebook service.