Ansca Mobile
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| Type | Privately held |
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| Industry | Software Mobile Application Development |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder(s) | Walter Luh (CEO), Carlos Icaza |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, USA |
| Products | Corona SDK |
| Employees | 8 |
| Website | www.anscamobile.com |
Ansca Mobile is a software company that develops Corona SDK, a cross-platform mobile development framework. The company is based in Palo Alto, California.
Co-founders Carlos Icaza and Walter Luh started Ansca Mobile after departing from Adobe in 2007. At Adobe, they were both mobile engineers who worked on Flash Lite; Icaza was the senior mobile engineering manager who led the Flash Lite team while Luh was the lead architect.[1][2]
In late 2009, Ansca Mobile secured $1 million in Series A funding from Merus Capital, a venture capital firm founded by former Google and Microsoft executives.[3]
In December 2009, Ansca released Corona SDK, initially supporting iOS. In April 2010, they expanded support to for the Android operating system. In 2011 Corona started supporting development for Amazon's Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's NOOK.
[edit] References
- ^ "Adobe vets build rival to Flash for iPhone apps - VentureBeat, June 23, 2009". http://venturebeat.com/2009/06/23/adobe-vets-build-rival-to-flash-for-iphone-apps/. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
- ^ "Adobe CEO, Ex-Adobe Engineers Weigh In on Jobs’ Flash Attack - Wired.com, April 30, 2010". http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/adobe-flash-jobs/. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
- ^ "Ansca Mobile raises $1M to build Adobe Flash rival for iPhone apps - VentureBeat, December 1, 2009". http://deals.venturebeat.com/2009/12/01/ansca-mobile-raises-1m-to-build-adobe-flash-rival-for-iphone-apps/. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
