Flotype Gets a Flood of Cash

Several prominent investors have poured $1.4 million into this enterprise technology company.

According to

, those investors include Salesforce.com

, Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Y Combinator, and Yuri Milner. Flotype

to take a “unique approach” to enterprise technology for real-time messaging “by building developer-friendly technologies focused on ease-of-use and simplicity, while still exceeding enterprise-grade performance expectations.” The company's enterprise-grade middleware technology, Bridge, is licensed to customers from a wide range of industries, including social Web and software enterprises. Even financial companies use Bridge, along with fleet management groups. Further, Flotype offers NowJS (a free open-source framework) to developers “seeking real-time interactivity on Node.js and JavaScript browsers.” Companies in need of scalability and reliability for NowJS applications can take advantage of NowCluster, another one of Flotype's products. Flotype was founded by Darshan Shankar, Eric Zhang, and Sridatta Thatipamala. Shankar launched the startup after working at CardMunch, a company that built an app that can turn business cards into LinkedIn

contacts. LinkedIn acquired CardMunch in 2010. Zhang came to Flotype with experience in development outsourcing, computer repair, and smartphone refurbishment. He also worked for Amazon

. Meanwhile, Thatipamala brought his experience in mobile research, which he conducted at the University of California-Berkeley's Hybrid Systems lab.