Corona Labs Inc.
| Developer(s) | Corona Labs |
|---|---|
| Operating system |
Deployment
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| 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. Corona Labs is based in Palo Alto, CA and is owned by Perk.com Inc.
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.
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, and shortly after, in June of the same year, Ansca changed its name to Corona Labs.
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.
In November 2014, Fuse Powered Inc. acquired Corona Labs.
The move is both a response to and a driver of competitive consolidation that is sweeping through the game monetization industry. Companies that grew up with one service, such as analytics, are finding that their customers want them to offer more than that. That’s why rival Unity Technologies, a 3D game engine maker, acquired game services companies Playnomics and Applifier, and it’s also why Kontagent and PlayHaven merged to form Upsight.
“Over the past five years, we’ve built a very strong development platform and community,” said Walter Luh, the CEO of Corona Labs, in a statement. “In Fuse, we’ve found another company with the same vision to help mobile publishers make more successful games more easily. We will continue to build on the world-class Corona platform, and now our developers will also have amazing monetization and publishing tools at their disposal, with even more to come.”
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