MadCap Software is an American

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firm headquartered in

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, California, that creates

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s for technical writers and documentation teams. Several principal managers, software engineers, and support personnel were recruited from rival firms, such as

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and

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, to found MadCap Software. MadCap's authoring tools are all based on

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Origins

Some of MadCap Software's founders were associated with eHelp and its core product, RoboHelp, a help authoring tool. After it was bought by Macromedia in 2003, the eHelp developers were laid off. MadCap co-founder Bjorn Backlund had headed the RoboHelp development team. He saw an opportunity to compete with RoboHelp by rewriting the program using XML and expanding the software. MadCap's founding CEO, Anthony Olivier, had been eHelp's CEO.

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