Mobile platform company Appcelerator acquired US-based app infrastructure provider Cocoafish on Thursday, paying an undisclosed amount. The deal makes Cocoafish the third business to have been acquired by Appcelerator in just over a year.
Appcelerator absorbed IDE (Integrated Development Environment) company Aptana last January and bumped up its HTML5 expertise when it acquired Particle Code in October. The Cocoafish acquisition marks Appcelerator’s entry into the wider mobile market, according to the company.
Cocoafish provides an open platform for app developers that enables them to build apps without provisioning and maintaining hardware, storage, databases or application stacks, and includes an app programming interface that can be integrated into any network software product.
Post-acquisition, Appcelerator will be able to offer software development kits for iOS, Android, JavaScript and REST.
Jeff Haynie, chief executive officer of Appcelerator, said: "Nearly all of our developers and customers have been manually adding cloud service functionality to their mobile applications since we launched Appcelerator’s Titanium Platform three years ago. Cocoafish is by far the most complete mobile cloud solution, and combined with the Titanium Platform, Appcelerator is delivering everything a developer needs to build rich, connected applications."
Shareholders in Appcelerator, which has raised about $24m, include ecommerce company eBay and software firm Red Hat as well as venture firms Mayfield Fund, Sierra Ventures, Storm Ventures and Translink Capital.