Overview
Employees
11-50
Founded date
2012
Investors 1
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Mentions in press and media 17
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| Nov 27, 2013 | Software company Arcweb expects $2.5M in revenue in 2014 [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED? Iroko Pharmaceuticals, the Navy Yard-based drug company, raised $75 million for the launch of its fast-dissolving pain killer, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. ColdLight Solutions, a Wayne-based big data analytics S... |
| Sep 18, 2013 | DuckDuckGo hits average of 4M daily searches // Artisan Mobile raises $2k for Philly schools [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED? Parametric Dining, a startup whose mobile payment app CheckMate is being piloted at University City’s City Tap House, raised $100,000, according to an SEC filing. Wayne-based medical device firm InSyte Medical Technolo... |
| Sep 17, 2013 | VenturePact: equity-based outsourced software dev for college startups | There’s a force behind several startups coming out of Penn, but you’d be hard pressed to find it if you weren’t looking. It’s called VenturePact. Led by two Penn grads, the company’s team of roughly 40 software engineers based in a city nor... |
| Aug 7, 2013 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners invests $1.9M in 10 companies [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED? Clutch, the mobile shopping app based in Ambler, Pa., raised $5.3 million in Series B funding led by Safeguard Scientifics with participation from Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners. It also acquired two companies t... |
| Jul 31, 2013 | What It's Like To Be A College Kid With A Profitable Side Business That Pulls In 6 Figures | Firefly/Dan Shipper Justin Meltzer (L) and Dan Shipper (R) run a profitable startup, Firefly. Dan Shipper, 22, is going into his final semester at University of Pennsylvania. Unlike most seniors, Shipper doesn't spend his nights fretting ab... |
| Jul 30, 2013 | Firefly’s cobrowsing software is live with chat tool Olark’s 5k customers | Firefly, the cobrowsing startup from Penn students, has partnered with live chat tool Olark, Firefly announced today. Based in San Francisco, Olark has more than 5,000 customers, including Disqus, Hipmunk and SquareSpace. As of last month, ... |
| Jul 30, 2013 | Firefly, Which Handles Co-Browsing The Web For Customer Support, Partners With Olark | Firefly, which took funding from First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund, is partnering with YC-backed Olark to give customer support specialists the ability to co-browse the web with clients that might be having trouble. Firefly has built a w... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | No better time to be a doer in Philadelphia: Student Startup Summit | If you want to continue the momentum of the attract and retain conversation around college entrepreneurs, you need students to be a part of it. That’s why last fall a group of aspiring undergrad entrepreneurs from Drexel and Penn came toget... |
| Feb 19, 2013 | Bootstrapping Philosophy: ‘investment is a tool, not a goal’ and 5 other reasons to self-fund your startup | Firefly cofounders meet regularly in First Round Capital’s office space in University City. From L to R: Justin Meltzer, Patrick Leahy and Dan Shipper. In December, the trio behind Firefly, the browser screen sharing service that spun off t... |
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FAQ about Firefly
When was Firefly founded?
Firefly was founded in 2012.
What has the press written about Firefly?
Parsers VC has collected 17 articles mentioning Firefly, among them “Software company Arcweb expects $2.5M in revenue in 2014 [Startup Roundup]” (Nov 27, 2013) and “DuckDuckGo hits average of 4M daily searches // Artisan Mobile raises $2k for Philly schools [Startup Roundup]” (Sep 18, 2013).
Is Firefly still active?
Yes, Firefly is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 17, 2025.