GetJar is an independent mobile phone application store founded in Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

 in 2004, with offices in Vilnius

Vilnius

Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...

, Lithuania and San Mateo, California

San Mateo, California

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The company provides more than 350,000 mobile applications across major handset platforms including Java ME, BlackBerry

BlackBerry

BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion since 1999.BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more...

, Symbian, Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile

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 and Android, reaching more than 15 million consumers and has served over 1 billion downloads. GetJar allows software developers to upload their applications for free through a developer portal. About 300,000 software developers have used this service resulting in over 1.05 billion downloads. The rate is currently at 3 million downloads per day.

The company was founded by Ilja Laurs in 2004, who remains CEO of the company. Lead investor is Accel Partners

Accel Partners

Accel Partners is a global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai....

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Awards

• Meffys 2009, "D2C service" winner
• TiECON50 2009, "Wireless" winner
• Mobile Excellence Awards 2009, Best Mobile Service
• On September 1, 2010, the World Economic Forum
  World Economic Forum
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   announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.