Appcelerator

Appcelerator is a privately held mobile technology company based in San Jose, California. Its main products are Titanium, an open-source software development kit for cross-platform mobile development, and the Appcelerator Platform.

Appcelerator
TypePrivate
IndustrySoftware
FoundedAtlanta, Georgia (2006 (2006))
FounderJeff Haynie and Nolan Wright[1][2][3]
Headquarters
San Jose, California
,
United States
ProductsTitanium, Appcelerator Platform
Websitewww.appcelerator.com

Founded in 2006, Appcelerator serves industries including retail, financial services, healthcare, and government. As of 2014, it raised more than $90 million in venture capital financing.[4]

On February 24, 2021 Axway announced in one of their company blogs that Appcelerator was being discontinued by March 1st, 2022 and they would be releasing their Titanium SDK into open-source[5][6]

History

Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright met at Vocalocity, an Atlanta-based voice over IP company that Haynie had co-founded.[7] After Haynie sold Vocalocity in 2006, the pair founded Web 2.0 application development company Hakano.[8]

In 2007, Hakano, renamed Appcelerator, began creating an open-source platform for developing rich Internet applications (RIAs).[9] Marc Fleury, the founder of JBoss, joined the company as an advisor.[10]

In 2008, Appcelerator relocated to Mountain View, California, and later released a preview of its Appcelerator Titanium product, which drew comment as a possible open-source competitor to Adobe AIR.[11][12]

Appcelerator began to focus on mobile apps in 2009. In June, it released a public beta of Titanium, which added support for Android and iOS app development to its existing web and desktop application features.[13] Titanium 1.0 was released in March 2010.[14]

Appcelerator increased its employee count fivefold between October 2010 and 2011. The company's 2011 revenue totaled $3.4 million, a 374 percent increase from 2008.[15]

Between 2011 and 2013, Appcelerator announced acquisitions, including:

Appcelerator moved to its San Jose headquarters in 2015.

In January 2016, Appcelerator was acquired by Axway,[24] a company that helps enterprises handle data flows.[25]

Products
  • Axway Appcelerator Dashboard offers real-time analytics of the lifecycle and success of apps built on the Axway Appcelerator Mobile Solution or directly via native SDK.[26]
  • Axway Appcelerator Studio is an open extensible development environment for building, testing and publishing native apps across mobile devices and OSs including iOS, Android.
  • Axway API Builder is an opinionated framework for rapidly building APIs with a scalable cloud service for running them.[27] It allows developers to connect, model transform and optimize data for both native or web app clients.[28] API Builder and API Runtime are the backbones of the Axway Appcelerator Platform MBaaS.[29]
  • Axway Mobile Analytics is a Mobile Analytics offering that collects and presents information in real time about an application's user acquisition, engagement, and usage.

Titanium

Appcelerator Titanium is an open-source framework that allows the creation of native, hybrid, or mobile web apps across platforms including iOS, Android, Windows Phone from a single JavaScript codebase.[30][31] As of February 2013, 10 percent of all smartphones worldwide ran Titanium-built apps.[32] As of August in the same year, Titanium had amassed nearly 500,000 developer registrations.[33]

Alloy

Alloy is an Apache-licensed model–view–controller app framework built on top of Titanium that provides a simple model for separating the app user interface, business logic, and data models.[34][35]

Apps built with Appcelerator products are written in JavaScript. Though initially developed as a Web language, JavaScript is increasingly popular for mobility due to its ability to meet the speed, scale, and user experience requirements that mobile development demands.[36][37] According to Forrester Research, JavaScript adoption is setting the stage for the "biggest shift in enterprise application development" in more than a decade.[38]

Funding

In December 2008, Appcelerator closed a $4.1 million first venture round led by Storm Ventures and Larry Augustin.[11][39] Later, in October 2010, the company announced a partnership with PayPal and that it has raised $9 million in Series B funding from investors including Sierra Ventures and eBay.[40]

Appcelerator raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Mayfield Fund, Red Hat, and Translink Capital in November 2011, and a further $12.1 million in a round led by EDBI, the venture fund of the Singaporean government's Economic Development Board, in July 2013.[41][42][43]

On August 25, 2014, Appcelerator announced $22 million in Series D funding led by Rembrandt Venture Partners.[44] Total funding for the mobile engagement platform to date is more than $90 million.[4]

Marketing awards
  • 2012 The Wall Street Journal: Technology Innovation Award in Software[45]
  • 2012 The Wall Street Journal: The Next Big Thing[46]
  • 2012 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Extensive Partner Ecosystem[47]
  • 2012 Momentum Index: 100 Open Source Companies[48]
  • 2012 Edison Awards Winner[49]
  • 2012 Silicon Valley Business Journal's Best Places to Work in the Bay Area[50]

See also

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