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Vancouver-based Buddybuild Acquired by Apple to help build Developer Tools for iOS Community
Wednesday, January 3, 2018Company Profile | Follow Company
Vancouver, BC, January 3, 2018--(T-Net)--Buddybuild announced today that it has been acquired by heavyweight tech firm and iPhone developer Apple to join that company's Xcode engineering team to help build developer tools for the larger iOS community.
Launched in October 2015, buddybuild works to improve the development workflow used by mobile app developers, according to the company.
T-Net regular readers may recall that Vancouver-based Buddybuild, a leader in continuous integration and delivery for mobile applications raised a $7.6 USD million Series A funding round in May 2016 led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and with participation from all pre-existing investors, including Amplify Partners, Bloomberg Beta and First Round Capital.
One of the interesting parts of that financing was that Buddybuild reportedly made it a non-negotiable term of the financing that the company be allowed to remain and build the company in Vancouver, BC and Canada (versus being asked to move to Silicon Valley).
So it's interesting to hear that they in fact WILL be staying in Vancouver, even following the acquisition by heavyweight tech firm Apple.
Dennis Pilarinos, Co-founder, CEO, buddybuild
This is breaking news and the specific amount and terms of this acquisition have not yet been publicly released.
We have included the blog post from buddybuild below announcing the acquisition.
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We're excited to share that the buddybuild team has joined the Xcode engineering group at Apple to build amazing developer tools for the entire iOS community.
We've always been proud to be a Canadian company, so we're also pleased that we will be staying right here in Vancouver — a hotbed of developer and engineering talent.
The buddybuild service will remain available to existing customers to build, test, and ship iOS apps to testers through buddybuild.com.
As of today, we are no longer accepting new customers. Existing Free Starter plans and Android app development will be discontinued on March 1, 2018.
If you have questions about an existing account, please contact us at: team@buddybuild.com.
About Buddybuild
What is buddybuild? The world's first mobile iteration platform. Buddybuild ties together continuous integration, continuous delivery and an iterative feedback solution into a single, seamless platform. No more cobbling together disparate systems to meet your mobile development needs. With buddybuild, you can focus on what matters most: creating awesome apps.
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