| Acquired by | Motorola Solutions |
| Price | $20M |
| Date | 7/10 |
| Website | 280north.com |
| Blog | blog.280north.com |
| Category | Communications |
| Employees | 4 |
| Description | JavaScript web applications |
| TOTAL | $250k |
| VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL | $250k |
| Seed, 1/08 Y Combinator | |
| Angel, 3/08 Lowercase Capital Paul Buchheit XGYC | $250k |
280 North is a web application company based on their proprietary application framework, Cappuccino. Along with Objective-J, Cappuccino provides a complete toolkit to develop rich web applications. It’s modeled after a proven desktop development environment, and has been released as an open source project under the LGPL.
280 North’s first application, 280 Slides, enables anyone with a web browser to quickly and easily create beautiful presentations. 280 Slides takes advantage of the web by making it trivial to find and include great media in your presentation. We also built in advanced features like importing and exporting PowerPoint documents, so your data is always portable.
| Website | 280slides.com |
| Blog | 280north.com/blog |
| Stage | Beta |
| Launch Date | June 5, 2008 |
280 Slides is an online Powerpoint Presentation tool that implements the powerpoint format and claims and a near ‘desktop’ experience. It includes all kinds of shape manipulation, as well as easy embedding from YouTube.
| Website | 280atlas.com |
From 280 North, Atlas is a visual layout editor and development environment for building web applications with Cappuccino, the company’s open source JavaScript-based web development framework.
Atlas by 280 North
| Website | cappuccino.org |
| Blog | cappuccino.org/discuss |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | September 4, 2008 |
| Deadpool Date | January 12, 2007 |
Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.
