Ansca Mobile
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Location: 720 University Ave. Suite 105, Palo Alto, California 94301, United States United States
Founded in: 2007
Stage: 1.0 (formal launch)
Number of employees: 6-15
Short URL: vator.co/ansca-mobile
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Ansca Mobile

The fastest, easiest way to create native iPhone apps
Startup/business
California, United States United States United States
http://www.AnscaMobile.com
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Company description

Ansca is a venture-backed company based in Palo Alto, CA.

Our Corona product line empowers developers of all backgrounds to quickly create and share applications designed for the Apple iPhone — to create captivating mobile experiences.

With an award-winning team of software veterans and a proven track-record of shipping industry-standard mobile and desktop software, we are committed to creating innovative mobile products that allows everyone to unlock their imagination.

Team

Carlos M. Icaza

Co-founder

Carlos has more than 20 years of engineering and management experience. Carlos managed various teams at Adobe including Flash Lite, Flash Mobile Authoring, and Flash Cast. He was responsible for creating and developing Adobe's entire mobile authoring strategy, now deployed across the entire Adobe Creative Suite.

Carlos has a proven track record of managing and shipping industry-standard products including: Flash Lite, Flash Authoring, Adobe Mobile Device Central, Adobe Illustrator, SVG, Adobe Pagemill, Micrografx Windows Draw, and Deneba Canvas.

 

 

Walter Luh

Co-founder

Walter is the creator of Corona.

Prior to Ansca, he led the Adobe Flash Lite engineering team. As Lead Architect, he achieved technical breakthroughs, pioneered advanced mobile research, and jump-started strategic relationships with Texas Instruments and Cisco. With over a decade of R&D experience, he has a proven track record of shipping successful products from mobile runtimes like Flash Lite to industry-standard desktop products such as Adobe Illustrator and Apple’s Final Cut Pro.

Walter holds an undergraduate degree in physics from Swarthmore College, and a master's in computer science from Stanford University.

 

 

Business model

Competitive advantage
The Ansca Mobile team has extensive past experience at Adobe, Apple, and Pixar with both graphical desktop software and Adobe's mobile Flash products.

Ansca Mobile's Corona SDK combines the ease of coding provided by the Lua language with the graphical performance of its proprietary rendering engine. In a nutshell: Corona compresses the months-long process of creating iPhone apps into a matter of weeks!