Tikhon Bernstam
American Internet entrepreneur
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Tikhon Bernstam (born 1979) is an American Internet entrepreneur who cofounded the companies Scribd and Parse.
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Tikhon Bernstam speaking at Pioneers Festival in 2013 with Michael Seibel and Aaron Iba of Y Combinator | |
| Born | 1979 (age 46–47) |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College (B.A.) |
| Known for | Co-founding Parse.com and Scribd.com and Startup Angel Investing |
Background
Bernstam grew up in Palo Alto, California and then attended Dartmouth College, where he studied economics, computer science, and physics and graduated summa cum laude.[1] Bernstam attended the Y Combinator program in 2006, launching Scribd.[2] He went on to attend the Y Combinator program again in 2011, this time co-founding Parse, a platform to help mobile developers create mobile applications.[3][4]
Bernstam is also an Angel investor and has invested in over 50 companies so far, including Optimizely, Scentbird and Crowdtilt.[5]
In 2012, Business Insider named Bernstam one of the top 15 CEOs to watch.[6]
Scribd.com
In 2006, Tikhon Bernstam and partners Trip Adler and Jared Friedman started Scribd.[7][8]
Parse.com
Parse is a cloud application platform powering tens of thousands of apps, including those for Cadillac, the Green Bay Packers, Home Depot, and the Food Network.[9]
Fast Company named Parse one of the top 50 most innovative companies of 2013.[10]
Parse was founded in 2011 by Tikhon Bernstam,[11] Ilya Sukhar, James Yu, and Kevin Lacker, a small group of seasoned Googlers and Y Combinator alums who got together to build a useful set of back-end tools for mobile developers. Parse offers services that help mobile developers store data in the cloud, manage identity log-ins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud.
Facebook acquired Parse for $85 million in 2013.[12][13][14][15]