Apportable, a San Francisco, CA-based a mobile development technology company, raised $5m in funding.
Backers included Google Ventures and a group of individual investors including Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, among others. Early VMware investor and Stanford physicist, Shoucheng Zhang also contributed via his newly formed investment firm called Danhua Capital.
The company, which has now raised $7.4m in total, will use the funds to continue to develop the platform, grow the team and expand operations.
Led by Collin Jackson, co-founder and CEO, and Ian Fischer, CTO, Apportable provides a mobile development platform for app and game developers to share the same code for iOS and Android, eliminating the need to build and maintain two separate versions of the app or game. Its first product, the Apportable compiler, allows anyone to cross-compile Objective-C apps to Android without extensive changes to the codebase.
The technology is currently used by small and large development teams including Pocket Gems, Bjork, and Wooga to bring their iOS titles to Android.
In late January, Apportable launched its second product, SpriteBuilder, a game development suite for building iOS and Android games with Objective-C and Xcode. The app, which is free to download in the Mac App Store, is already being used by thousands of game developers.
The company, which currently employs more than 50 people, previously participated in StartX and Y Combinator.
To date, it has received $7.4m in funding.
FinSMEs
06/02/2014