Parse, Inc.

Parse was founded in 2011 by Tikhon Bernstam,[3] Ilya Sukhar, James Yu, and Kevin Lacker, previously at Google and Y Combinator.

The firm produces back-end tools for mobile developers that help mobile developers store data in the cloud, manage identity log-ins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud.

[17][18] Facebook opened the application source code in order to allow users to perform the migration to self-hosted Parse Server.

[19] A range of vendors are able to host Parse applications, providing migration alternatives.

[20] The service operated until 30 January 2017, at which point all users needed to migrate their applications to self-hosted Parse Server or move to other platforms.