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Flotype

Anyone can build web apps with Flotype.

Date Founded: October 2010

Founder: Darshan Shankar, Sridatta Thatipamala, Eric Zhang

Concept: Web technology that enables everyone, from startups to enterprises, to easily build large-scale, real-time web applications.

Location: Berkeley, CA

Funding: Y-Combinator invested $20,000, plus additional financing from others

Why You Should Care: Flotype was a Y-Combinator winter 2010 company. NowJS is its main product. The startup is just six months old, but it's on track to generate $1 million in revenue. The founders are young and scrappy too. All three are 19-year-old UC Berkeley engineering dropouts.

 

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