Crashlytics is a venture-funded

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 startup building crash reporting for mobile platforms, including iOS

IOS

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 and Android.

History

As reported by Xconomy and BostInnovation, Wayne Chang

Wayne Chang

Wayne Chang is an American entrepreneur and computer programmer. He is best known for creating i2hub, a peer-to-peer filesharing network.-Personal life:...

 and Jeff Seibert met In February 2011 in popular tech gathering spot Voltage Cafe in Kendall Square. Seibert had told Chang about a crash reporting problem. Chang was hooked. The two then began working together on creating a solution that would work for all mobile developers.

Chang was also the creator of popular P2P file sharing company i2hub

I2hub

i2hub was a peer-to-peer file sharing service and program designed and intended primarily for use by university and college students. The program was created by Wayne Chang, a student at University of Massachusetts, Amherst...

, a competitor to Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive and president...

's Wirehog

Wirehog

Wirehog was a friend-to-friend file sharing program that was linked to Facebook and allowed people to transfer files directly between computers.- History :...

 service. Seibert previously founded Increo, which was acquired by Box.net in 2009 for an undisclosed sum.

Initial investors

TechCrunch

TechCrunch

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 and MassHighTech reported that Crashlytics raised a $1million seed round. The round was led by Flybridge Capital Partners

Flybridge Capital Partners

Flybridge Capital Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm focused on early-stage venture capital investments. With $560 million under management across three funds, the firm invests in consumer, healthcare, energy and information technology markets and is led by a team with domain expertise...

 and Baseline Ventures. Angels investors in the round include David Chang (COO at Where, a PayPal

PayPal

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 company), Lars Albright (cofounder of Quattro, now Apple

Apple

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 iAds), Chris Sheehan (Managing Partner at CommonAngels), Ty Danco (Founder, eSecLending and FX Aligned), Jennifer Lum (former VP at Quattro, now Apple iAds), Roy Rodenstein (founder of Going.com and a former Director of Business Planning at AOL

AOL

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), Joe Caruso (Managing Partner at Bantam Group), and others.

Technology

One of the key features of Crashlytics is their ability to give iOS and Android developers insights into their apps, such as the exact line of code that caused the crash.

External links

• crashlytics.com official site
• @crashlytics Crashlytic's twitter