QuickBlox history (from consultancy into product startup into cloud communication platform)

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QuickBlox pivoting and (not) raising money history, from web/databasing consultancy to mobile apps consultancy to online leaderboards platform to mBaaS (cloud backend platform) to cloud communication platform.

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From Leaderboards to Cloud

Communication

(Taras Filatov, director, QuickBlox, VC Summit, London, 17th January 2014)

We started in app development and got tired of reinventing the wheel..

History: how it started

History: iCombat 2009

History: iGetScores (open-source)

iOS library + PHP-based server-side API

2009

History: iGetScores (product) 2009-2010

History: leaderboards product -> cloud backend product

iGetScores Mob1serv

LEADERBOARDS mBaaS

+ USERS+ PUSH NOTIIFCATIONS+ CMS

History: Mob1serv BaaS January 2011

History: Mob1serv BaaS 2010-2011

History: Mob1serv BaaS 2011

History: Mob1serv BaaS 2011

Chat&

Presence

ContentNotifications Ratings

QuickBlox is an enterprise mBaaS cloud providing Communication and Backend services for any application together with APIs, SDKs and code samples:

UsersLocationVideo Communication

About: QuickBlox makes communication mobile and app ready

QuickBlox.com

Bloggers and journalists name QuickBlox among 11-13 leaders out of 31 BaaS players (while others “try to play catch up”)

http://apievangelist.com/2013/02/26/75-features-from-across-31-baas-providers/

http://apievangelist.com/2013/02/26/baas-provider-quickblox-offers-unlimited-api-calls-and-push-notifications/

http://readwrite.com/2012/04/17/mobile-backend-as-a-service-ec

About: QuickBlox is a leading BaaS provider

Palo Alto Q4 2013

• New Enterprise Associates• Sequoia Capital• Andreessen Horowitz• Summit Capital• FirstMarkCapital

$45m -> $85m?Isn’t worth the paperwork!

QuickBlox is the 1st BaaS to launch Video Calling (VideoChat SDK)

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/02/20/quickblox/

About: QuickBlox is unique among other BaaS competitors providing in Communication as a Service

http://quickblox.com/

– as featured by TheNextWeb, 20th Feb 2013

Unified Communications market was valued at USD 22.8 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach USD 61.9 billion in 2018, growing at a CAGR of 15.7%

This is driven by “Mobile work-force and enterprise mobility & the proliferation of mobile devices capable of video communication”

Unified Communication Market Growth (EMEA)

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About: Unified Communication / Communication as a Service market

BAAS market

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Big Market Opportunity for QuickBlox

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About: BaaS + Communication as a Service = HUGE market opportunity for QuickBlox

Unified Communication market

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Most visitors to QuickBlox website come from India, US, UK, China, Russia, Spain,

Italy, Canada, Australia

About: Worldwide demand & interest for our products

About: Product markets itself – organic traffic growth

Most of direct traffic comes from technical resources such as StackOverflow:

Traffic from search engines continues to grow (May/June ’13)

3rd place in Google on “video chat ios” (June ‘13)

Most QuickBlox users and clients come from organicsearch engine traffic.

On average 30-40 new developers sign up every day, w/o PPC/ads investment

Clients: Developers sign ups (per day)

Clients: Developers sign ups (trending)

• QuickBlox now has 7,605 developers signed up and growing• Some developers have multiple apps in their QuickBlox dashboard• Many apps have thousands / millions of end users

Clients: Chat API calls

People love to chat!

Clients: Enterprise

Out-of-the-box communication for iOS, Android and Web

Contacts

Address & Telephone

QuickBlox, 8 Warner Yard, Clerkenwell, London, EC1R 5EY,United Kingdom

+44 (0) 770 822 0953 +44 (0) 203 053 0660 (London)

http://quickblox.com/ contact@quickblox.com

Twitter: @quickbloxFacebook: /quickbloxYoutube: /QuickBlox

taras@quickblox.com

nate@quickblox.com

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