Parallel Universe
Parallel Universe is a YC Summer 2012 (S12) company. Team of 2.
About Parallel Universe
Summary
Parallel Universe builds a JVM-based server-side stack that lets developers write concurrent, scalable applications without restructuring their existing code or hiring dedicated scaling specialists. Its tools, including Quasar, Comsat, SpaceBase, and Galaxy, replace custom multi-threading work and third-party concurrency frameworks by providing lightweight threads, actors, fiber-aware web APIs, an in-memory spatial database, and an in-memory data grid. The target customer is backend developers who need to extract more throughput from modern multi-core hardware without adding servers.
Go-to-market
Developers adopt the stack directly, with open-source components like Quasar serving as the entry point alongside commercial products for broader infrastructure needs.
From the Y Combinator listing
Helping developers scale their applications with ease.
Parallel Universe, a Y-Combinator startup, helps developers utilize the most out of their hardware. With a server side stack developed for easy concurrency programming, you can ditch the extra servers and write simple multi-threaded code.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Infrastructure
- 2
- Inactive
- Early
Founders (1)
- Ron Pressler
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