PubNub

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PubNub
Pubnub-logo.png
Type of site
Private
Founded2010
Headquarters,
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s) Stephen Blum
Todd Greene
Industry Internet
Products PubNub Realtime Communication Platform, PubNub Functions, [1] PubNub Chat [2]
URL www.pubnub.com

PubNub is a real-time communication platform and infrastructure-as-a-service company based in San Francisco, California. The company makes products for software and hardware developers to build real-time web, mobile, and Internet of Things [3] (IoT) applications.

Contents

PubNub's primary product is a real-time publish–subscribe [4] messaging API built on their global data stream network. The network is made up of a replicated network of 15 data centers located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The network currently serves 330 million devices and streams a trillion messages per month.

History

PubNub was founded in 2010 by Stephen Blum and Todd Greene. The platform raised $4.5 million in Series A funding from Relay Ventures and TiE Angels in March 2012. [5] They received their $11 million Series B round of funding in September 2013 from Scale Venture Partners, Relay Ventures and TiE Angels. [6] In July 2015, PubNub received its $20 million Series C round of funding led by Sapphire Ventures. [7] In September 2016, PubNub closed a $6 million venture round led by Cisco Investments and Ericsson. [8] In April 2019, PubNub received its $23 million Series D round of funding, adding Hewlett Packard Enterprise to the list of investors. [9]

Technology

PubNub utilizes a publish–subscribe [4] model for real-time data streaming [10] and device signaling and supports all of the capabilities of WebSockets, Socket.IO, SignalR, WebRTC Data Channel and other streaming protocols. PubNub provides SDKs for over 70 different programming languages and environments including JavaScript, iOS, and Android, as well as JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS, Ember.js, and Backbone.js. PubNub also provides client libraries for board platforms including Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Texas Instruments, and Microchip.

References

  1. "Introducing Functions: Serverless Computation at Scale". PubNub. September 12, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  2. "Announcing PubNub Chat: Our Flexible Chat SDK for Powerful In-App Chat". PubNub. November 13, 2019. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  3. Clark, Don (September 15, 2015). "Companies See Market in Managing 'Internet of Things'". The Wall Street Journal.
  4. 1 2 Mason, Ross (November 14, 2011). "PubNub offers publish/subscribe messaging as a service and supports real-time, global messaging for cloud and mobile apps". ReadWrite.
  5. Lawler, Ryan (March 20, 2012). "PubNub raises $4.5M to bring real-time messaging to apps". Gigaom . Retrieved October 9, 2015.
  6. Hesseldahl, Arik (September 17, 2013). "Scale Venture Partners Invests $11 Million in PubNub Series B". All Things Digital . Retrieved October 9, 2015.
  7. Preimesberger, Chris (July 1, 2015). "OTT Data Streamer PubNub Lands $20M in VC Funding". eWeek.
  8. PubNub, PubNub (September 12, 2016). "Cisco Investments, Ericsson Invest $6 Million in PubNub to Help Shape The Future of Networking". PubNub.
  9. Lunden, Ingrid (April 9, 2019). "PubNub nabs $23M as its IaaS network hits 1.3T messages sent each month". TechCrunch.
  10. 1 2 Flinders, Karl (May 5, 2015). "Sportlobster uses PubNub network for data streaming in real time". Computer Weekly . Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  11. Castor, Amy (October 23, 2013). "Real-Time App Development Platform PubNub Introduces Serverless Access Control". ProgrammableWeb . Retrieved October 22, 2015.