Appcelerator is a

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mobile technology Mobile technology is the technology used for cellular communication. Mobile technology has evolved rapidly over the past few years. Since the start of this millennium, a standard mobile device has gone from being no more than a simple two-way pa ...

company based in

San Jose, California San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 popul ...

. Its main products are

Titanium Titanium is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ti and atomic number 22. Found in nature only as an oxide, it can be reduced to produce a lustrous transition metal with a silver color, low density, and high strength, resista ...

, an

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

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for

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

retail Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and th ...

financial services Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, accountancy companie ...

, 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 Web 2.0 application development company Hakano. In 2007, Hakano, renamed Appcelerator, began creating an

platform for developing rich Internet applications (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. ...

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

Adobe AIR Adobe AIR (also known as Adobe Integrated Runtime and is codenamed Apollo) is a cross-platform runtime system currently developed by Harman International, in collaboration with Adobe Inc., for building desktop applications and mobile applicat ...

. 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

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and iOS 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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integrated development environment An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools a ...

(IDE) company * Particle Code,

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mobile gaming development platform * Cocoafish,

backend as a service Mobile backend as a service (MBaaS), also known as "backend as a service", is a model for providing web app and mobile app developers with a way to link their applications to backend cloud storage and APIs exposed by back end applications while ...

* Nodeable, big data analytics company * Singly, API 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 iOS,

. *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 Mobile backend as a service (MBaaS), also known as "backend as a service", is a model for providing web app and mobile app developers with a way to link their applications to Front and back ends, backend cloud storage and APIs exposed by back end ...

. *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

framework that allows the creation of native, hybrid, or mobile web apps across platforms including iOS,

Windows Phone Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design lan ...

from a single

JavaScript JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2022, 98% of Website, websites use JavaScript on the Client (computing), client side ...

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 Model–view–controller (MVC) is a software architectural pattern commonly used for developing user interfaces that divide the related program logic into three interconnected elements. This is done to separate internal representations of infor ...

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

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, 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

eBay eBay Inc. ( ) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and became ...

. 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. 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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