Apprenda

Apprenda

Type	Private
Industry	Technology Software
Founded	2007
Founder	Matt Ammerman Sinclair Schuller Abraham Sultan
Headquarters	Troy, NY
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Sinclair Schuller (CEO)
Number of employees	100 (2015)
Website	www.apprenda.com

Apprenda is an American computer software company that provides a shared services container platform to help companies create, update, and manage private and public cloud-based applications.

Apprenda was founded in 2007 in Clifton Park, New York, by Matt Ammerman, Sinclair Schuller, and Abraham Sultan. Schuller and Sultan both graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Ammerman graduated from University at Albany, SUNY. Schuller, the company's CEO, previously worked in IT, developing applications for large banks.

In June 2014, Apprenda moved from Clifton Park to Troy, New York, in part to be closer to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. With headquarters in New York rather than California, Forbes has called Apprenda "the anti-Silicon Valley startup." The company has a second office in New York City, with plans to eventually expand into Europe.

Apprenda launched its cloud platform in 2007, supporting Microsoft's .NET Framework. The following year, Apprenda closed its public cloud service and began selling the software behind it so that companies could run it on their own private servers. In 2010, the company launched SaaSGrid Express, a free, downloadable SaaS application platform. In September 2012, the company introduced ApprendaCloud, a free public cloud platform providing a raw infrastructure where developers can experiment with creating mobile and cloud-based applications, before bringing them into Apprenda or their own in-house infrastructure. After previously only supporting .NET, in February 2013, Apprenda added Java as a second language, adding support for an estimated 90% of enterprise app development on PaaS. In 2014, Apprenda and Microsoft offered users access to the Microsoft Azure cloud system at no additional cost, so customers can deploy a PaaS that bridges their own data center and Azure. Beyond Azure, Apprenda's work with Microsoft extends to Windows Server, Team Foundation Server, Windows Azure Pack, SQL Server and Oracle enterprise databases.