Crashlytics
| Subsidiary of Google | |
| Industry | Software industry |
| Fate | Acquired for over $100 million |
| Founded | May 13, 2011 |
| Founders | Wayne Chang, Jeff Seibert |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, San Francisco, California |
| Products | Crashlytics for iOS, Crashlytics for Android, Crashlytics for OSX, Crashlytics for Apple tvOS, Crashlytics for Unity, Beta by Crashlytics, Answers, Fabric, SecureUDID |
| Members | 2+ billion devices, 1+ million apps |
| Parent | Google (previously Twitter) |
| Website | www |
Crashlytics is a Google-owned Boston, Massachusetts-based software company founded in May 2011 by serial entrepreneurs Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert. It has been integrated in over 1 million apps and is one of the most popular Software development kits SDKs.
With Crashlytics, mobile developers for iOS, Android, and Unity are able to pinpoint, down to the exact line of code, the issues that causes their app's instabilities. As of 2016, Crashlytics has been installed on over 2.5 billion active devices (virtually all active mobile devices) and is the #1 most installed SDK for performance. Its Answers product became #1 in mobile analytics -- beating out Google Analytics.
In January 2013, Twitter announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Crashlytics. The acquisition price was reportedly at over $100 million (about $259.5 million by the time of Twitter's IPO).
In January 2017, Google announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Crashlytics and its offspring creations including Fabric and Answers. The acquisition would bolster its existing efforts in mobile by joining its Google Firebase initiative.
Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert co-founded Crashlytics in 2011. The company raised $1 million from venture capitalists Flybridge Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures as well as individual angel investors. In April 2012, Crashlytics raised an additional $5 million.
In March 2012, under privacy pressure, Apple began to deprecate the UDID – the unique identifier that ties a user to a specific phone. In response, the Crashlytics team built and released SecureUDID, an open-source alternative to UDID.
In June 2012, when Crashlytics was already on 100 million devices, Crashlytics acquired FireTower.app, a tool used to detect Javascript errors in websites. This acquisition was to help expand Crashlytics beyond mobile apps and into the mobile web. FireTower.app was a Boston-based company. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but Crashlytics co-founder Wayne Chang says the other side is “very happy.”
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