ArcSoft

ArcSoft

Company type	Private
Industry	Multimedia Software
Founded	1994 (1994)
Founder	Michael Deng
Headquarters	Fremont, California , United States
Area served	Europe Asia
Number of employees	800
Website	www.arcsoft.com

ArcSoft, Inc. (SSE: 688088) is a photo and video imaging software development company that offers various imaging technologies across devices with major platforms – from smartphones, tablets, PCs, smart TVs, digital cameras to cloud based enterprise solutions.

Established in 1994, ArcSoft is a private company with 800 employees, including more than 600 scientists and engineers. ArcSoft is headquartered in Fremont, California, with regional commercial and development facilities in Europe and Asia, specifically Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing. Michael Deng, ArcSoft's CEO, founded the company with $150,000 in funding from family and friends.

Products

ArcSoft markets the following desktop and mobile software:

Mobile Apps

• Perfect365: portrait makeovers
• Closeli and simplicam
• ArcNote: for taking photo notes.

Video entertainment and editing

• TotalMedia Theatre: movie experience on PC (Retired Product)
• ShowBiz: video editor

Media management and utilities

• MediaConverter: converts music, photos, and videos into formats for standalone media players
• Photo+: photo viewer for Windows and Mac.

Photo editing

• Panorama Maker: turns photos and videos into panoramas (this software is no longer being supported or updated by ArcSoft).
• PhotoStudio: for advanced photo editing
• Portrait+: for portrait enhancement
• PhotoImpression: for rich photo editing
• PhotoBase: for basic photo editing