| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.07.2017 | CloudMine Builds Role as a Strategic Player as Healthcare Organizations’ Data Needs Deepen |
In a new chapter of the business, it added a new CEO last month with an eye to expanding the services it offers to healthcare organizations, as cofounder Brendan McCorkle shifted to a chief innovation officer and president role.
Stephen Wr... |
| 27.01.2017 | Attention Startups: Project Liberty is Back! Apply Now. |
Once again, Ben Franklin is working alongside the Philadelphia Media Network. PMN, the parent company to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Daily News and Philly.com, will provide space for the selected startups. The incubator is seeking tech ... |
| 15.12.2016 | Event Recap: Founder Factory 2016 |
The day started off with a fireside chat with David Tisch, managing partner at BoxGroup, an early stage investment fund based in New York City with a portfolio of companies like Blue Apron, Harry’s, and Warby Parker. Moderated by local ser... |
| 27.06.2016 | CloudMine Releases CareKit SDK for Apple Developers |
CloudMine’s Connected Health Cloud complements the CareKit framework to provide secure storage for data generated by CareKit apps. CloudMine’s SDK also provides CareKit app developers with HIPAA compliance, end-to-end encryption, user mana... |
| 23.05.2016 | CloudMine Named a Cool Vendor in Mobile App Development by Gartner |
CloudMine launched the Connected Health Cloud in March 2016 at the HIMSS Conference in Las Vegas, NV. Leading healthcare organizations, such as Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, are deploying the Connected Health Cloud to connect to a... |
| 22.04.2016 | Penn contest singles out two apps |
Culled from a field of 313 submissions from 10 schools across the University of Pennsylvania, all six app finalists presenting before the venture capital community had good reasons to be up there, Mencin said. Each rocked the stage at Worl... |
| 11.04.2016 | This CloudMine-Jefferson collabo will give you faith in Philly’s health IT aspirations |
On February 7, 2013, two months after CloudMine announced it would focus on enterprise customers, CEO Brendan McCorkle shared some tips about working with corporations, during a panel hosted by PACT andPhilly Startup Leaders.
Find a champi... |
| 23.03.2016 | Local tech firm CloudMine gets big break with Jefferson deal |
CloudMine has gotten a major endorsement in its arrangement with Jefferson, which has also propelled a growing relationship between CloudMine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Jefferson is using CloudMine’s Connected Health Clou... |
| 07.03.2016 | Phila. medical app firm takes a Vegas visit |
He was bound for HIMSS, the conclave of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, which McCorkle calls “the biggest health-care technology meeting of the year,” collecting hospitals, drugmakers, drug researchers, cost acco... |
| 29.01.2016 | 15 alternatives to Facebook’s Parse | Sh*t happens. Sometimes cloud services and applications shut down. Yesterday, Facebook announced that it would be closing up Parse, the mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) that it acquired in 2013 for a reported $85 million.
Customers do ha... |
| 29.01.2016 | 15 alternatives to Facebook’s Parse | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Sh*t happens. Sometimes cloud services and applic... |
| 29.01.2016 | What alternatives to Parse exist, now that it is shutting down? | Parse has gone the way of the Dodo.
Facebook acqui-hired the MBaaS (mobile backend as a service) company in April 2013, and last night, Parse sent an email to all its users that it will be folding up the service between now and January 28, ... |
| 08.01.2016 | CloudMine raises additional $2.25 million |
CloudMine just tacked on another $2.25 million to its Series A, bringing that round up to $7.25 million.
It was a debt round, compared to initial Series A raise, which was an equity round.
Existing investors participated in the additional ... |
| 08.12.2015 | CloudMine Releases Connected Health Cloud Component in Partnership With Xamarin |
CloudMine, best known for aiding sensitive industries in building mobile apps that maintain security and compliance, will now integrate their backend API into Xamarin’s native apps, empowering developers to build app front-ends (clients) a... |
| 04.12.2015 | Founder Factory: will you be there? Here’s a little incentive … |
At PSL’s Founder Factory event (Thursday December 10, 9am-5pm at the Chemical Heritage Foundation), founders, mentors, angels, VC’s, students, government groups, and partners will be coming together for a day of collaborative learning and ... |
| 27.10.2015 | A Video Conversation with Brendan McCorkle, CEO of CloudMine – (Part IV) – Interviewed by Jeff Mack |
Brendan McCorkle is the CEO of CloudMine. Headquartered in Philadelphia, with offices in Boston and San Francisco, CloudMine aims to reduce the complexity of backend development for enterprises everywhere. The platform emphasizes mobile pe... |
| 17.06.2015 | On Success: Ryan Caplan, Bob Moul, Brendan McCorkle, Stephen Stewart and Josh David |
The “we” in question was a gathering of some interesting folks: Ryan Caplan, founder/CEO of ColdLight, just sold his Internet of Things predictive data firm for $105 million; Bob Moul, CEO of Artisan Mobile and of Boomi fame; Brendan McCor... |
| 17.03.2015 | $5M Series A for Cloudmine…CHECK! |
Image Credit: John Karakatsanis/Flickr
CloudMine, a startup that sells a cloud service for operating mobile apps and websites, is announcing today that it has picked up $5 million in new funding.
CloudMine offers several components for mob... |
| 06.03.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 3/6/15
Retrieve Voicemail Online or By Phone | Nextdoor, YouMail, RockYou, Tempered Networks, Culture Amp, Vanhawks, Alation, Farfetch, WorldStores
Seed stage
Smartbike startup Vanhawks raised $1.6 million from Real Ventures, Simon Whitfield, Brenda Irwin and various angels.
Product vis... |
| 04.03.2015 | $5M Series A for Cloudmine…CHECK! | Image Credit: John Karakatsanis/Flickr |
| 03.03.2015 | CloudMine just raised a $5M Series A from Philly-area investors | After a long silence, CloudMine is back.
The enterprise mobile platform just closed a $5 million Series A led by Safeguard Scientifics. The round is exclusively made up of local investors, including MentorTech Ventures, DreamIt Ventures, De... |
| 03.03.2015 | Mobile backend startup CloudMine picks up $5M | CloudMine, a startup that sells a cloud service for operating mobile apps and websites, is announcing today that it has picked up $5 million in new funding.
CloudMine offers several components for mobile developers to tap, including object ... |
| 03.03.2015 | CloudMine Raises $5M in Series A Financing | CloudMine, a Philadelphia, PA-based provider of a cloud mobile platform, raised $5m in Series A financing.
The round was led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE:SFE) with participation from MentorTech Ventures, DreamIt Ventures, DeSimone Group I... |
| 03.03.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 03.03.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Social platform Spredfast lands $24M to better follow what you’re posting
Today, one of the leading platforms for mining tho... |
| 03.03.2015 | Mobile backend startup CloudMine picks up $5M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
CloudMine, a startup that sells a cloud service f... |
| 03.02.2015 | These 51 Philly tech firms are hiring right now [NET/WORK] | Believe us, if you want a job in tech, you don’t need to leave Philly. More than 50 businesses, startups and organizations will be on hand next Tuesday, Feb. 10, for NET/WORK, our tech jobs fair at concert venue Union Transfer.
We have a fu... |
| 31.10.2014 | Biomeme’s smartphone diagnostic to be used to track Ebola virus in West Africa | |
| 16.07.2014 | Project Liberty Welcomes 5th Class! | Philadelphia–Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin) announced the fifth startup company class of the Project Liberty Digital Incubator. The program is hosted by Interstate General Media (IGM), operated ... |
| 31.01.2014 | DreamIt Health grad with molecular diagnostic for smartphone raises $1M | Other healthcare startups to get funding from Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ Southeastern Pennsylvania office include:
CloudMine ($100,000): Another DreamIt Ventures grad, the company has a cloud-based HIPAA-compliant enterprise mobility... |
| 25.10.2013 | Cloudmine moves to Philadelphia Building, opens SF office | After more than two years, Cloudmine is ready for a space of its own. That, and a West Coast office.
The mobile app backend moved to Center City’s Walnut Street Philadelphia Building earlier this month because it had outgrown Callowhill inc... |
| 05.06.2013 | Google App Engine Adds Kinvey To Power Mobile Backend | Google is broadening its reach into the mobile app development world today through a partnership with Kinvey, which will provide an enterprise backend-as-a-service (BaaS) layer on top of Google App Engine. With Kinvey, Google App Engine wil... |
| 20.03.2013 | Kinvey Launches Enterprise Back-End Service For Building Mobile Apps That Move Data From Salesforce, Oracle And Other Sources | On one day, the software runs on complex hardware systems behind the firewall. The next it is software operating as a service in the cloud. And so explains Kinvey, a startup that today announced a way for enterprise customers to scrap their... |
| 13.02.2013 | Cloudmine: this RISK-inspired INFOGRAPHIC shows Callowhill startup has 11% of mobile backend service market | Cloudmine, the mobile backend startup, holds 11 percent of the backend-as-a-service (BaaS) market, VisionMobile reported. That’s the second largest market share, according to VisionMobile, only following Parse, with its 28 percent market sh... |
| 12.12.2012 | Monetate’s hiring boom named as one of Inquirer’s top business stories of 2012 [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 05.12.2012 | Cloudmine: mobile app backend switches focus to enterprise businesses | It’s not exactly a pivot. Dave Speers, Cloudmine‘s new director for business development, prefers the word “evolution.”
The Callowhill-based mobile app backend isn’t changing its product, hence the distinction. Instead, it’s refocusing its ... |
| 27.11.2012 | BizTech@Wharton Conference: IBM Corporate Strategy CTO Lauren States and Google Apps Product Manager Jonathan Rochelle to keynote at 17th annual conference | The BizTech@Wharton Conference is back for its 17th year this Friday at Center City’s Loews Philadelphia Hotel with mainstay features like its Startup Pavilion showcase and numerous panels, as well as several high-profile speakers.
Organize... |
| 14.11.2012 | DuckDuckGo gets featured in the Washington Post, and more news from Real Food Works, Cipher Prime and Cloudmine [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 24.10.2012 | Lehigh Valley Startup Weekend: event debuts in the region, as entrepreneurs try to grow Lehigh Valley tech scene | A startup scene is brewing in Lehigh Valley, or that’s the hope, at least.
The region will host its first Startup Weekend (that crazed 54-hour marathon during which teams build companies and products — find our previous coverage of the even... |
| 24.10.2012 | Philly’s women-owned firms earn revenues of $28.6M+ [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 17.10.2012 | DuckDuckGo experiment: no such thing as impersonal Google results [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 11.10.2012 | Cloudmine Annual Report: check out this promo comic by local artist Ariel Braverman | We like comics over here at Technically Philly.
So we were charmed to find this Cloudmine promo comic by local artist Ariel Braverman. It tells the story of how the Venturef0rth-based mobile app backend team met at Startup Weekend just a ye... |
| 03.10.2012 | Current DreamIt Ventures company “Charlie” chosen for national startup showcase [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 26.09.2012 | After multiple rejections from Apple, Trap Call launches petition to get app back in iTunes Store [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 25.09.2012 | Arcweb: new consulting firm on IT product from PSL, Vuzit cofounder Chris Cera | It’s a services shop to help product firms.
Chris Cera, Vuzit co-founder and founding member of Philly Startup Leaders, has been quietly working on a new venture out of Indy Hall for a little over a year, but now that Cera’s got some time t... |
| 12.09.2012 | Get your ‘No Sleep in Hustle’ Cloudmine tees from Startup Threads [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 05.09.2012 | Entrepreneurs who stay home are more successful than those who relocate [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 15.08.2012 | Social media lags behind email and search in sales conversions: Monetate [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 25.06.2012 | Cloudmine 1.0: mobile app backend drops beta, launches first version, viral marketing one year after launch | No one at Cloudmine will say they had anything to do with it, but the mobile app backend service’s logo appeared Friday on on the same Callowhill water tower that drivers on 676 have seen adorned with the Philly.com logo for at least a deca... |
| 25.06.2012 | Lessons from the first class of the Project Liberty Digital Incubator [VIDEO] | When the soon-after ousted publisher of Philadelphia’s two largest daily newspapers and Philly.com announced his company would be housing a ‘digital media startup incubator,’ funded by $250,000 from the national, news innovation-focused Kni... |
| 23.06.2012 | Insta-cloud: CloudMine makes big data super-simple for apps and enterprise | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Big data often means big complexity. But CloudMine, the backend-as-a-service infrastructure for apps, just launched this weekend to tak... |
| 22.06.2012 | Venturef0rth wants to call its neighborhood ‘Southern Liberties’ [LINKS] | Venturef0rth welcomes new companies, hiring office manager [Flying Kite] “Three-month old Venturef0rth is growing fast, and announced this week that DreamIt Ventures grads Cloudmine, MetaLayer, Grassroots Unwired and SnipSnap have all taken... |
| 19.06.2012 | Sponsor Post: Social, Mobile and the Tip of the API Iceberg | Editor’s note: We offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write posts and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like t... |
| 25.05.2012 | Cloudmine on seed funding: “this was the ‘you are now homeless’ goal” | CloudMine cofounder Brendan McCorkle explains the near “valley of death” experience his company encountered as they sought a first round of seed funding and how he found help in the Philly tech community, in a guest post for FounderDating:
... |
| 28.03.2012 | “As an angel investor, revenue trumps no revenue,” says Robin Hood Ventures member at Angel Education [VIDEO] | Jonathan Melllinger has experience on both sides of the investment ecosystem, first as a successful entrepreneur and now as a member at Robin Hood Ventures.
Mellinger told an audience of entrepreneurs and angel investors at the Science Cent... |
| 21.03.2012 | Tech firms in Philly growing fast, former Philly startup Sqoot in hot water over sexist remarks on hackathon flyer [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 07.03.2012 | Talk startups with RJ Metrics, Cloudmine, Neat Co. and Inhabi at Tales of a Philly Entrepreneur presented by PACT and TP | T.A.P.E
Where: Woodcock Washburn, 12th Floor, Cira Center
When: April 24, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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If Switch Philly is the event to see up-and-comers, Tales of a Philly Entrepreneur is all about the grizzled veteran. A handful of local s... |
| 29.02.2012 | Phorum announces 15 companies in “Demo Pit” | Phorum, the cloud conference organized by The Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies, has announced 15 companies that will be part of its “Demo Pit.” The companies, all using cloud technology and based in or around Phila... |
| 17.02.2012 | Friday Q&A: Brendan McCorkle of CloudMine on growing fast | Philadelphia Media Network has had a bad week.
The company that owns the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com is wrapped in a controversy stemming from its possible sale to a buying group that includes former Philad... |
| 15.02.2012 | OpenDesks reaches 1,000 workspaces, Spling leaves for New York [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 13.01.2012 | CloudMine Receives $100K Investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania | CloudMine, a Philadelphia, PA-based start up that provides a back-end as a service platform for mobile application developers, has received a $100k investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/SEP).
Cl... |
| 08.12.2011 | DreamIt Ventures graduates 14 startups on Demo Day | Yesterday afternoon, hundreds of people braved the sometimes-torrential rain to file into the bottom floor of World Cafe Life. There was no concert, instead people came to see the culminating event of 14 startups working non-stop for three ... |
| 07.12.2011 | The 14 startups demoing at DreamIt today [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 06.12.2011 | DreamIt demos tomorrow, Quaker BioVentures changes its name [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 06.12.2011 | DreamIt Graduates 14 Startups in Philly, Including 5 Minority-Led Companies | On Wednesday, startup incubator DreamIt Ventures is graduating fourteen new companies from its Philly 2011 class. It’s the fourth program from DreamIt in Philadelphia, and the fifth graduating class for the accelerator overall. (DreamIt exp... |
| 21.11.2011 | A Recap of Education Hack Day | We came, we saw, we hacked
The weekend before last, roughly 70 software designers, developers, makers, and educators convened at Digital Harbor High School for an Education Hack Day. The mission was simple: listen to problems sourced by tea... |
| 15.10.2011 | DreamIt-Backed CloudMine Lets App Developers Bypass The Backend Pain, Focus On Their Product | I think it’s a fair assumption to say that, for app developers, the enjoyable part of their job is building the actual app, not finding the right web services and hosting provider, setting up databases, and slogging through configuration. I... |
| 08.09.2011 | DreamIt Ventures Launches Its Fall 2011 Philadelphia Class | Startup accelerator DreamIt Ventures is introducing its Fall 2011 Philadelphia class today, which includes five minority-owned companies selected in collaboration with Comcast Ventures. In May, DreamIt and Comcast teamed up to provided seed... |
| 08.09.2011 | DreamIt Ventures announces 15 companies in its Fall 2011 class | DreamIt Ventures, Philadelphia’s nationally recognized early-stage technology incubator, has announced the 15 companies that will make up its Fall 2011 class. Seven have roots in the Philadelphia area.
Based in the University City Science C... |
| 22.08.2011 | CloudMine: a pivot and an alpha (all before DreamIt Ventures) | While the rest of the world was celebrating Steve Jobs’ announcement of Apple’s iCloud, the guys at CloudMine were shaking their heads.
Ilya Braude, Marc Weil and Brendan McCorkle were working on a system that would backup mobile content in... |
| 08.08.2011 | DreamIt Ventures accepts three companies | As we reported in last week’s VC roundup, DreamIt Ventures is beginning to notify companies about being accepted into its Fall 2011 class. Different this year is a partnership with Comcast and the Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program a... |
| 02.08.2011 | DreamIt Ventures accepts first round of co’s. BFTP lands funding. | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| - | DreamIt Health grad with molecular diagnostic for smartphone raises $1M | Directing a child to set up a diagnostic test is one way to illustrate the ease of using a device. That’s the approach Biomeme took for its pitch on crowdfunding website AngeList. Biomeme co-founder Max Perelman’s cute-as-a-button 7-year-ol... |
| - | A Tag-Team Effort to Foster the Next Generation of Startups | “I’m not enthusiastic about trying to replicate what goes on in Boston or what goes on in Silicon Valley,” says BioAdvance Managing Director and CEO Barbara Schilberg. “I think Philadelphia has an opportunity to create its own model. Be cre... |
