Type of business | Private |
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Available in | Multilingual |
Founded | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, USA |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Gino Padua (CEO) |
Employees | 35 |
Slogan(s) | The Most Powerful Mobile Platform in the World |
Website | mobileroadie |
Users | 35 million users |
Launched | March 2009 |
Current status | Active |
Mobile Roadie is a self-service mobile app platform to create, customize and manage mobile apps.
Mobile Roadie was founded in 2008 by Michael Schneider and Brock Batten, and officially launched at South by Southwest 2009. The first live app to be created using the Mobile Roadie platform was for the band Black Lips. As of June 2016, Mobile Roadie’s app gallery includes Taylor Swift, Madonna, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rascal Flatts, Dallas Mavericks, Harvard University, Pacha Group, Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, and Wicked.
On May 1, 2012, Mobile announced they added two new self-service products — iPad and Mobile Website. More than 20 million users have downloaded apps made by Mobile Roadie.
In March 2012, it was announced by Beggars Group Head of Marketing that Adele's official app passed 1.5 million downloads, the first Mobile Roadie app to pass the 1 million downloads mark.
In September 2011, Mobile Roadie announced they had surpassed 10 million app downloads and 2,000 mobile apps. In the same month, Mobile Roadie announced their launch in China as QMoBao (Chinese: “Q魔宝”) in partnership with FabriQate, a full-service mobile agency with offices in London, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Mumbai.
Mobile Roadie received funding from investors Guy Oseary, Ashton Kutcher, Rodger Berman, Paige Craig, and Mike Jones, among others.