Ansca Mobile is a mobile software company that develops the Corona SDK

Corona (software development kit)

Corona SDK is a software development kit created by Walter Luh, co-founder of Ansca Mobile. It allows software programmers to build mobile applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices....

 for mobile app creation

Mobile application development

Mobile application development is the process by which application software is developed for small low-power handheld devices such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones...

. The company is based out of Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...

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Co-founders Carlos Icaza and Walter Luh started Ansca Mobile after departing from Adobe

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...

 in 2007. At Adobe, they were both mobile engineers who worked on Flash Lite

Flash Lite

Adobe Flash Lite is a lightweight version of Adobe Flash Player, a software application published by Adobe Systems. This version is intended for mobile phones and other portable electronic devices like Chumby and iRiver, and allows users of these devices to view multimedia content and applications...

; Icaza was the senior mobile engineering manager who led the Flash Lite team while Luh was the lead architect.

In late 2009, Ansca Mobile secured $1 million in Series A

Series A round

A Series A round is the name typically given to a company's first significant round of venture funding in the Silicon Valley model of startup company formation....

 funding from Merus Capital, a venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 firm founded by former Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

 and Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 executives.

In December 2009, Ansca released the Corona SDK for iPhone. In April 2010, they expanded support to mobile platforms running the Android operating system by launching a Corona 2.0 beta test. Corona 2.0's definitive new feature was cross-platform support for iPhone, Android, iPad

IPad

The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...

, and iPod Touch

IPod Touch

The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line...

devices; additional 2.0 features are expected to be rolled out gradually per Corona's subscription-based purchase model.