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.

1. From Leaderboards to Cloud Communication
(Taras Filatov, director, QuickBlox, VC Summit, London, 17thJanuary 2014)

3. History: how it started
We started in app development and got tired of reinventing the wheel..

4. History: iCombat
2009

5. History: iGetScores (open-source)
iOS library + PHP-based server-side API
2009

6. History: iGetScores (product)
2009-2010

7. History: leaderboards product -> cloud backend product
LEADERBOARDS
mBaaS
+ USERS
+ PUSH NOTIIFCATIONS
+ CMS
iGetScores
Mob1serv

8. History: Mob1serv BaaS
January 2011

9. History: Mob1serv BaaS
2010-2011

10. History: Mob1serv BaaS
2011

11. History: Mob1serv BaaS
2011

12. About: QuickBloxmakes communication mobile and app ready
QuickBlox is an enterprise mBaaS cloud providing
Communication and Backend services for any application
together with APIs, SDKs and code samples:
Video
Communication
Chat
&
Presence
Notifications
Location
Ratings
Content
Users

13. QuickBlox.com

14. About: QuickBlox is a leading BaaS provider
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-fromacross-31-baas-providers/
http://apievangelist.com/2013/02/26/baasprovider-quickblox-offers-unlimited-api-callsand-push-notifications/
http://readwrite.com/2012/04/17/mobile-backendas-a-service-ec

16. Palo Alto
Q4 2013
• New Enterprise Associates
• Sequoia Capital
•Andreessen Horowitz
• Summit Capital
•FirstMarkCapital
$45m -> $85m?
Isn’t worth the paperwork!

17. About: QuickBlox is unique among other BaaS competitors providing in
Communication as a Service
QuickBlox is the 1st BaaS to launch Video Calling (VideoChat SDK)
– as featured by TheNextWeb,
20th Feb 2013
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/02/20/quickblox/
http://quickblox.com/

18. About: Unified Communication / Communication as a Service market
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 workforce and enterprise mobility &
the proliferation of mobile
devices
capable of video
communication”
+
Unified Communication Market Growth

19. About: BaaS + Communication as a Service = HUGE market opportunity
for QuickBlox
+
BAAS
market
Unified Communication
market
=$
Big Market Opportunity for

20. About: Worldwide demand & interest for our products
Most visitors to QuickBlox website come from
India, US, UK, China, Russia, Spain, Italy, Canada, Australia

21. About: Product markets itself – organic traffic growth
Traffic from search engines continues to grow (May/June ’13)
Most QuickBlox users and
clients come from organic
search engine traffic.
3rd place in Google on “video chat ios” (June ‘13)
Most of direct traffic comes from technical resources such
as StackOverflow:

22. Clients: Developers sign ups (per day)
On average 30-40 new developers sign up every day, w/o PPC/ads investment

23. 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

24. Clients:Chat API calls
People love to chat!

25. Clients:Enterprise

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

27. 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
taras@quickblox.com
nate@quickblox.com
Twitter: @quickblox
Facebook:/quickblox
Youtube: /QuickBlox