HERALDICAbout Heraldic
In 2013, after learning about virtualization and remote desktop technologies, Artem, then a Valencia College student, came up with an idea for an invention: Mise En Abyme Cloud Computers. Virtual desktops streamed over the Internet on any device! Artem’s mind was blown at the potential of MEA, and he got to work on a prototype with a fanatic’s zeal.
Mise En Abyme had humble beginnings in a garage, following in the footsteps of Google and HP. In 2014, Artem set up a few testing VM servers in his garage. During his first semester at Valencia College, Artem used these virtual machines in class to code and execute programs from an iPad, a functionality previously unheard of on mobile devices.
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In May 2015, we decided it was time for our first crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise money to build Mise En Abyme servers. We made a viral video explaining Mise En Abyme concepts through Internet memes and Internet-culture parody. Our Kickstarter did not reach the ambitious goal we had set, so we decided it was time to move to AWS instead of hosting on-premises.
That same year, Mise En Abyme was presented at the Code for the Kingdom hackathon at Wycliffe Associates headquarters in Orlando, Florida.
In 2016, after migrating our infrastructure to AWS, we released the second public beta test for Mise En Abyme. It eventually formed the MEA Newbie edition.
In 2017, ApostleMod was renamed Heraldic, and Heraldic Clouds LLC was formed in Florida.
On January 1, 2017, Heraldic released its first mobile app, an MEA Android client. After Mise En Abyme reached Android users, its popularity grew rapidly.
Because of Heraldic’s cloud-technology expertise and focus, CEO Artem worked with CompTIA as a Subject Matter Expert to develop Cloud+ exam questions.
In May 2017, Heraldic presented a graphics-virtualization poster at NVIDIA GTC in San Jose, California. At the convention, Heraldic revealed three phases of Mise En Abyme and its use of GPUs.
The Mise En Abyme app was further improved. Heraldic began conducting a beta test of the new GPU-accelerated cloud desktop service Eleet.
Heraldic’s new research poster was accepted to NVIDIA GTC for a second year in a row. The poster explored containerization of entire GPU-accelerated desktops in Amazon Web Services EC2.
As Heraldic grew, it branched out into AI and blockchain services. In 2026, AI is at a crossroads, and exciting things are coming very soon, one after another.
To be continued…