Corona Labs Inc.
| Developer(s) | Corona Labs |
|---|---|
| Operating system | |
| Type | Software Development Kit (SDK) Game engine |
| Website | www.CoronaLabs.com |
Corona Labs Inc., formerly Ansca Mobile, is a California software company building a 2D game and app development platform. Its main offering is the Corona SDK, a cross-platform mobile development framework that builds native apps for iOS, Android, Kindle, Windows Phone, tvOS, Android TV and Mac and Windows desktop from a single code base.[1][2] Corona Labs is based in Palo Alto, CA and is owned by Perk.com Inc.[3]
Company History
Corona Labs was founded as Ansca Mobile in 2008 by Carlos Icaza, previously the manager for such projects as Adobe's Flash Lite, Flash Mobile Authoring, Flash Cast and Adobe Illustrator, and Walter Luh, a lead architect in Adobe's Flash Lite team. In late 2009, Ansca secured $1 Million in Series A funding from Merus Capital, a venture capital firm founded by former Google and Microsoft executives.[4]
In December 2009, Ansca released the first version Corona SDK, initially supporting iOS. In April 2010, they expanded support for the Android operating system. In 2011 Corona began supporting development for Amazon's Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook.
In April 2012, CEO Icaza departed the company for personal reasons and CTO Luh took over the CEO role, [5] and shortly after, in June of the same year, Ansca changed its name to Corona Labs. [6]
In August 2012, Corona Labs introduced Corona Enterprise which allows developers to integrate any native Objective-C and Java library. Shortly after, in November of the same year, Corona Labs received $2 million in capital from Merus Capital and Western Technology Investment. In April 2013, Corona Labs expanded the company's product offerings with the launch of Corona SDK Starter, a free mobile development solution.
Fuse Powered Inc. acquired Corona Labs in November 2014.[7]
Perk.com Inc. acquired Corona Labs for $2.3 Million in December 2015.[8]
Users
Over 300,000 developers have used Corona SDK, including the 14-year-old creator of the Bubble Ball game for iOS [9] and the 84-year-old creator of Dabble.[10]
Bibliography
- Fernandez, Michelle (April 2012). Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Beginner's Guide (1st ed.). Packt Publishing. p. 408. ISBN 1849691886.
- Burton, Ed.D., Brian. Mobile App Development with Corona (1st ed.). Burtons Media Group. p. 436. ISBN 978-1-937336-00-4.
References
- ↑ Christina Desmarais, "5 ways to make your mobile app take off" "Inc.", March 21, 2012
- ↑ "Corona Labs Acquired by Perk, Releases New OS X and tvOS Updates/". App Developer Magazine. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- ↑ "Perk.com Inc. Announces Closing of Acquisition of Corona Labs, a Leading Mobile App Development Platform". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- ↑ Anthony Ha, "Ansca Mobile raises $1M to build Adobe Flash rival for iPhone apps", VentureBeat, December 1, 2009
- ↑ "Moving On And Thanks".
- ↑ "Introducing Corona Labs".
- ↑ Dean Takahashi, "Fuse Powered acquires 2D game engine maker Corona Labs (exclusive)" "VentureBeat", November 4, 2014
- ↑ "Perk.com Inc. Announces Proposed Acquisition of Corona Labs, a Leading Mobile App Development Platform | Business Wire". www.businesswire.com. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ "14-Year-Old's 'Bubble Ball' App Knocks 'Angry Birds' Out Of Top Spot" "Huffington Post", January 17, 2011
- ↑ Regina Sinsky, "84 Year old becomes eldest app inventor with a word game called Dabble" "VentureBeat", August 17, 2011