| Type | Privately held |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer Software Mobile Application Development |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder(s) | Walter Luh, CEO Carlos Icaza, Chief Evangelist |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, USA |
| Products | Corona SDK |
| Employees | 8 |
| Website | www.anscamobile.com |
Ansca Mobile is a mobile software company that develops the Corona SDK for mobile app creation. The company is based out of Palo Alto, California.
Co-founders Carlos Icaza and Walter Luh started Ansca Mobile after departing from Adobe in 2007. At Adobe, they were both mobile engineers who worked on Flash Lite; Icaza was the senior mobile engineering manager who led the Flash Lite team while Luh was the lead architect.[1][2]
In late 2009, Ansca Mobile secured $1 million in Series A funding from Merus Capital, a venture capital firm founded by former Google and Microsoft executives.[3]
In December 2009, Ansca released the Corona SDK for iPhone. In April 2010, they expanded support to mobile platforms running the Android operating system by launching a Corona 2.0 beta test. Corona 2.0's definitive new feature was cross-platform support for iPhone, Android, iPad, and iPod Touch devices; additional 2.0 features are expected to be rolled out gradually per Corona's subscription-based purchase model.[4]