Mobile Distillery, which develops porting and optimising software solutions for the mobile application industry, has secured 2 million (1.5 million) in a Series A funding round with two Innoveris funds managed by technology venture capital firm Viveris Management.
The company says it will use the investment to strengthen its leading position in Europe. It plans to open a Paris office, to enhance its sales and marketing force internationally, and to fund growth into North America and India, where its technical and training support for customers and technology partners will be expanded.
Headquartered in Marseille, France, Mobile Distillery was founded in 2005 to address the problems associated with device and platform fragmentation in the mobile content and enterprise markets. Its customers include mobile business application developers, mobile marketing agencies and mobile games companies worldwide. Its award-winning automatic porting and optimisation software platform, Celsius, enables application developers to create hundreds of individually-optimised mobile applications from a single set of source code and art assets. By using Celsius as part of their development process, companies speed up development and reduce porting time by up to 80%.
We are delighted to have Viveris on board as investor, says Mobile Distillery Co-founder & CEO of Mobile Distillery, Eric Lemarchal. Mobile Distillery experienced strong growth over the past year as Celsius helped more companies solve the challenges of ever-increasing device fragmentation. This investment will enable us to expand our global presence and capitalize on the demand for easy-to-use, web-to-mobile, client-server applications, as corporations execute on their plans to go-to-mobile to deliver innovative professional and consumer services.
Viveris Management Investment Manager, Cyprien Roy, joins Mobile Distillerys Board of Directors. He says:
Our decision to invest in Mobile Distillery came from the strength of their vision for the future of the mobile industry. We believe Mobile Distillerys technologies will prove to be pivotal in bringing down the barriers that fragmentation is currently creating in the mobile marketplace.