• GigaOm, Monday, May 16, 2011 12:22 PM

Paving the way for mobile developers, cloud platform Stackmob has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round, GigaOm reports. "The new money, led by Trinity Ventures, will help the company expand and push toward a public launch later this year," it writes. San Francisco-based Stackmob offers mobile developers a back-end cloud platform with which they can more easily build, deploy and manage applications. Translation: "Especially with many start-ups scrambling to add talent, StackMob allows them to avoid having to hire as big a team," according to GigaOm.

"We see ourselves as the experienced back end for the masses," Ty Amell, Stackmob co-founder and CEO. "Everyone forgets how early we are in mobile. There will be great ideas out there but people don't know how to implement the back end. As GigaOm explains, StackMob offers things like simple API creation and management, social integration, messaging and analytics. Monetization tools, meanwhile, are expected to be coming shortly.

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