Fremont: Flow, the data exchange platform, announced the beta release of the Flow platform and have raised $3 million funding from a group of angel investors along with Trident Capital reports other medias. The fund will be used to develop Flow’s data marketplace and create new features. Co-Founded by Eric Alterman and Tom Luczak, the company is a content curation platform and realtime data PaaS or platform-as-a-service.

Founded in 2010, Flow allows data exchange among application developers and at the same time allows enterprises and consumers to create and curate information streams to whatever subject they like. It is been designed in a way to let the users’ apps collaborate with other developers and their apps. The users can create apps that work together along with their friends. The platform enables developers to take advantage of a ready-to-use backend for app data and allows the developers to connect and share data from web, mobile and enterprise apps with other developers on a permissioned, realtime basis.

On the other hand, iFlow is a real-time, online information exchange that brings together the best way to track and participate with others. The users, both enterprise and consumers, can take advantage of discovering, sharing, creating or curtailing realtime information on any topic. It offers everyday web users the ability to discover, create, curate and share realtime information on any subject - in a filtered and contextual way just like RSS. It is based on topics that matter the users, pull from any number of sources and filter on the specific interest of the users.

Alterman is a serial tech entrepreneur who founded several software, telecom and semiconductor companies including Kickapps, MeshNetworks, Triton Network Systems, TeraNex, ShyCross, and many more.