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General Information

Websiteappia.com
Twitter@Appia
CategoryMobile/Wireless
Employees
Founded2008
Descriptionwhite label app marketplace

Offices

HQ
320 Blackwell Street
4th Floor
Durham, NC, 27701
USA

People

President, CEO
VP, Technology
VP Developer Relations
Chief Revenue Officer
Sr. Vice President, Advertising
Executive Chairman
Investor

Former People

VP International
VP Business Developments
COO
Sr. Vice President, Products and Marketing

Acquisitions

Handango, 2/10

Funding

TOTAL $28.3M
FUNDING TOTAL $28.3M
Series A, 6/08
Noro-Moseley Partners
Wakefield Group
$3.25M
Series B, 8/10
Trident Capital
TomorrowVentures
Relay Ventures
$15M
Venture Round, 3/11
Venrock
$10M
Venture Round, 10/11
DCM
DEBT TOTAL $6.5M
Debt, 3/10
$1.5M
Debt, 4/13
North Atlantic Capital
Silicon Valley Bank
$5M

Tags

Appia

Appia is the world’s largest open app marketplace and white label storefront platform, supporting all operating systems and handsets. Ranked #15 on the Wall Street Journal’s 2011 list of Top 50 Venture-backed companies, Appia powers app storefronts for partners reaching more than 300 million mobile subscribers in 175 countries. Partners include Vodafone, Vodacom South Africa, Zedge, Myxer and Samsung.

The Appia Developer Program provides partners with a ready to launch catalog of over 140,000 paid and free apps from more than 30,000 global application developers.

Appia is headquartered in Durham, NC. For more information, please visit http://www.appia.com or follow @Appia.

Recent Milestones

  • Dollar
    Appia received $5M in Debt funding. (4/17/13)
    Posted 4/18/13 at 5:12am via finsmes.com
  • Check
    Appia added Lou Kerner as Investor. (9/1/12)
    Posted 12/5/12 at 9:34am
  • Dollar
    Appia received in Venture Round funding. (10/21/11)
    Posted 10/21/11 at 4:26am via finsmes.com
  • Check
    Appia — Appia-Powered App Stores Now Seeing 1 Million Downloads Per Day (8/18/11)
    Posted 8/18/11 at 5:58pm via techcrunch.com
  • Dollar
    Appia received $10M in Venture Round funding. (3/30/11)
    Posted 3/30/11 at 7:47pm via techcrunch.com
  • Check
    Appia — PocketGear Rebrands as Appia, reflecting change in strategy to white label app marketplace. (2/3/11)
    Posted 2/24/11 at 1:57pm via appia.com
  • Check
    Appia added Dov Cohn as Sr. Vice President, Products and Marketing. (9/14/10)
    Posted 12/24/10 at 8:40am
  • Check
    Appia added Jim Harvey as Sr. Vice President, Advertising. (9/14/10)
    Posted 12/24/10 at 8:40am
  • Check
    Appia added Ken Hayes as Chief Revenue Officer. (9/14/10)
    Posted 12/24/10 at 8:40am
  • Dollar
    Appia received $15M in Series B funding. (8/23/10)
    Posted 8/22/10 at 7:38pm via techcrunch.com
  • Dollar
    Appia received $1.5M in Debt funding. (3/8/10)
    Posted 3/8/10 at 1:15pm via sec.gov
  • Handshake
    Appia acquired Handango. (2/23/10)
    Posted 2/23/10 at 2:12pm via texastechpulse.com
  • Check
    Appia added Alex Bloom as COO. (2/23/10)
    Posted 2/23/10 at 7:07pm
  • Dollar
    Appia received $3.25M in Series A funding. (6/1/08)
    Posted 6/25/10 at 11:55am via techcrunch.com
  • Check
    Appia added Jud Bowman as President, CEO. (1/1/08)
    Posted 2/22/10 at 4:37pm
  • Check
    Appia added Matt Stein as VP Developer Relations. (1/1/00)
    Posted 2/22/10 at 4:37pm

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Screenshots

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Uploaded: 2/25/11

Sources

  1. Texas TechPulse (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
  2. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  4. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. White-Label App Marketplace Platform Appia Raises $10M At $100M Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Appia Raises Funding from DCM (finsmes.com) [edit]
  7. Appia Raises $5M in Debt Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  8. Appia, formerly PocketGear, Officially Launches as Largest Open App Marketplace (appia.com) [edit]
    Appia-Powered App Stores Now Seeing 1 Million Downloads Per Day (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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