Appcelerator’s success is accelerating. The company, which has created a platform to let developers easily build software that runs across multiple devices, announced today that it has doubled in size since November, and that it is bringing on new sales and engineering executives.
The news tells us that cross-platform application development is becoming even more of a priority to companies as smartphones become cheaper and more widely available, and tablets find their way into homes.
The company says it now has 37 employees, up from 17 at the end of November. It’s primarily adding new employees in engineering and sales, but it’s also bringing on new people for support, marketing and professional services.
Trenton Truitt, former regional vice president for EMC’s Information Intelligence group, is joining as Appcelerator’s new VP of worldwide sales, while former Funambol operations VP Kincy Clark will serve as VP of customer engineering. Living up to their titles, Truitt will be tasked with increasing Appcelerator’s customer base, while Clark will focus on technical and development support, as well as working with technical partners to expand its services.
Appcelerator’s open source Titanium platform lets developers build applications once using web programming languages and easily convert them to run on mobile and desktop platforms, including iPhone OS, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux. It’s an easy way for small companies to get their apps on multiple platforms without manually building an app for each one. Developers can use Titanium to take advantage of each device’s native capabilities, which means the apps will perform faster than if a developer just released a web app.
The Mountain View, Calif.- based company was founded in 2007 and in October raised $9 million in funding. Thus far, Appcelerator has raised a total of $15.2 million. Nearly 98,000 developers have used its platform to create some 9,400 apps. Its clients number over 400 and include NBC, MTV, eBay and Cisco.
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