Appcelerator is a privately held

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company based in

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. Its main products are

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, an open-source

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for

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mobile development, and the Appcelerator Platform. Founded in 2006, Appcelerator serves industries including

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, financial services, healthcare, and

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. As of 2014, it raised more than $90 million in

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History

Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright met at Vocalocity, an

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-based

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company that Haynie had co-founded. After Haynie sold Vocalocity in 2006, the pair founded

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application development company Hakano. In 2007, Hakano, renamed Appcelerator, began creating an open-source platform for developing

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(RIAs).

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, the founder of

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, joined the company as an advisor. In 2008, Appcelerator relocated to

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, and later released a preview of its

Appcelerator Titanium Titanium SDK is an open-source framework that allows the creation of native mobile applications on platforms iOS and Android from a single JavaScript codebase. Titanium SDK is presently developed by non-profit software foundation TiDev, Inc. I ...

product, which drew comment as a possible open-source competitor to

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. Appcelerator began to focus on

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in 2009. In June, it released a

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of Titanium, which added support for Android and

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app development to its existing web and desktop application features. Titanium 1.0 was released in March 2010. 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. Between 2011 and 2013, Appcelerator announced acquisitions, including: *

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(IDE) company * Particle Code,

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mobile gaming development platform * Cocoafish,

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* Nodeable, big data analytics company * Singly,

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management company in August, 2013. Appcelerator moved to its San Jose headquarters in 2015. In January 2016, Appcelerator was acquired by Axway, a company that helps enterprises handle data flows.

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. *Axway Appcelerator Studio is an open extensible development environment for building, testing and publishing native apps across mobile devices and OSs including

, Android. *Axway API Builder is an opinionated framework for rapidly building APIs with a scalable cloud service for running them. It allows developers to connect, model transform and optimize data for both native or web app clients. API Builder and API Runtime are the backbones of the Axway Appcelerator Platform MBaaS. *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

is an open-source framework that allows the creation of native, hybrid, or mobile

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across platforms including

, Android,

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from a single

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codebase. As of February 2013, 10 percent of all smartphones worldwide ran Titanium-built apps. As of August in the same year, Titanium had amassed nearly 500,000 developer registrations. 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. Apps built with Appcelerator products are written in

. 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. According to Forrester Research, JavaScript adoption is setting the stage for the "biggest shift in enterprise application development" in more than a decade.

Funding

In December 2008, Appcelerator closed a $4.1 million first venture round led by Storm Ventures and

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. Later, in October 2010, the company announced a partnership with

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and that it has raised $9 million in Series B funding from investors including Sierra Ventures and

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. Appcelerator raised $15 million in Series C funding led by

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

Marketing awards

*2012 The Wall Street Journal: Technology Innovation Award in Software *2012 The Wall Street Journal: The Next Big Thing *2012 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Extensive Partner Ecosystem *2012 Momentum Index: 100 Open Source Companies *2012 Edison Awards Winner *2012 Silicon Valley Business Journal's Best Places to Work in the Bay Area

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