Sirqul, Inc. Announces Series A Funding in Conjunction with Version 3.141 of their Rapid Application & IoT Platform Services

SEATTLE — Novem­ber 3, 2015 — Sirqul, Inc., pro­nounced “cir­cle”, today announced $5 mil­lion in Series A fund­ing from both insti­tu­tion­al and Angel investors. Par­tic­i­pat­ing in the round are a pletho­ra of tech­nol­o­gy lead­ers and peo­ple con­nect­ed to the Paci­fic North­west, Sil­i­con Val­ley, and Asia.

Investors include: Rudy Gadre (Amazon.com, Face­book, and Alliance of Angels), Owen Van Nat­ta (Amazon.com, Face­book COO, Myspace CEO, Zyn­ga COO), Ray Chen (CEO Com­pal Elec­tron­ics), Tripp Blair (Where/Paypal, Motoro­la, and Sun), Xiang Gao (Gome.com.cn CEO and Senior Part­ner Cyber­naut Invest­ment of Chi­na), and Rick Dalzell (for­mer CIO of Amazon.com, Wal­mart, and AOL Board mem­ber). Oth­er investors include lead­ers with­in online search, gam­ing, and loca­tion-based com­merce com­pa­nies. Anoth­er set of com­mit­ted investors will soon enter the A-1 round, as Sirqul has left it open for strate­gic invest­ment from com­pa­nies inter­est­ed in lever­ag­ing the local­ized ver­sions of the plat­form in the US and through­out Asia.

“We are proud of the plat­form and ser­vices that we have been able to build, license, and make avail­able to star­tups, enter­pris­es, and device man­u­fac­tur­ers” said Robert Fred­er­ick, founder and CEO of Sirqul. “We are espe­cial­ly excit­ed about work­ing with incu­ba­tors inter­est­ed in lever­ag­ing our 68 ser­vices, 324 APIs, and ‘skinnable’ recipes/apps that can be installed on iOS, Android, and oth­er sup­port­ed device plat­forms. There’s no need to recre­ate the wheel and all our ser­vices work togeth­er cohe­sive­ly to cre­ate a solu­tion that enables founders to get up and run­ning with­in days vs. months or years.”

About Sirqul

Head­quar­tered in Seat­tle, WA, Sirqul is led by Robert Fred­er­ick, one of the orig­i­nal tech­ni­cal founders of Ama­zon Any­where (Amazon’s first for­ay into Secure Mobile Com­merce) and Ama­zon Web Ser­vices (AWS). Sirqul’s plat­form and patent­ed tech­nolo­gies enable Inter­net of Things (IoT) device man­u­fac­tur­ers and cloud enabled appli­ca­tion ecosytem own­ers to rapid­ly cre­ate dynam­ic mobile expe­ri­ences, max­i­mize cus­tomer loy­al­ty, and gen­er­ate rev­enue from new offer­ings. Along with APIs, Sirqul offers mul­ti­ple dash­boards that offer an online inter­face to man­age loca­tion-based ser­vices, deliv­ery algo­rithms, pro­duct offer­ings, mobile trans­ac­tions, teleme­try, ana­lyt­ics, big data, geo-fences, mesh net­works, real-time bid­ding sys­tems, stor­age, audi­ence behav­ior and noti­fi­ca­tions, ser­vice orches­tra­tion, and dynam­ic appli­ca­tion con­fig­u­ra­tions. Vis­it Sirqul’s devel­op­er web­site (http://dev.sirqul.com) or con­tact sales@sirqul.com to learn more about the Sirqul plat­form and white-label mobile offer­ings.