Buddy lands $1M to help developers manage apps across platforms

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Buddy Platform today is announcing that it has secured $1 million in seed financing, and rolled its service for managing apps across various platforms. Investors in the Kirkland company include San Francisco’s Transmedia Capital and Crestlight Venture Productions, as well angel investors such as Jeff Ravencraft, Kirk Drage, Nick Foskett and Christina Storm. More than 6,000 developers… Read More…

Buddy Platform jumps on board Urban Airship in push notification partnership

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Portland’s Urban Airship has sent out more than 10 billion push notifications to mobile devices since it was started. And most of those have been delivered to Android or iOS devices. A new partnership announced today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona between Urban Airship and Buddy Platform — a Seattle upstart led by… Read More…

Ignition backs Parse, another hot San Francisco startup

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Another day, another investment by Ignition Partners in the Bay Area. The Bellevue venture capital firm, which earlier this week announced that it was leading a $40 million deal in Palo Alto, California-based Cloudera, has pumped $5.5 million into San Francisco-based Parse. Parse helps developers manage the back-end of mobile applications, similar to what former Microsofties… Read More…