About Sencha
Sencha (formerly Ext JS) makes application frameworks that equip developers to create, deploy and optimize compelling application experiences using web-standard technologies such as HTML5. The company’s flagship product, Sencha Touch, produces cross-platform rich internet applications for modern mobile devices. The product includes a comprehensive mobile UI widget-set, a well-architected, extensible component model, and an intuitive, easy-to-use API. More than one million developers worldwide — representing more than 150,000 companies — use the Sencha product family to build amazing application experiences. Follow us on Twitter @senchainc.
With more than 1 million developer users worldwide, Sencha was founded in 2007 as an Ajax framework provider, and quickly grew to be a major provider of open-source javascript technology to leading Enterprises and technology companies. Best Buy, Dell, Salesforce.com and Adobe are just a few of the many leading companies that use Sencha technologies to power their business applications. This month, Sencha added the jQTouch and Raphaël open source projects to its portfolio.
Sencha Labs
Sencha Labs is a foundation to support non-commercial projects affiliated with Sencha, such as jQTouch and Raphaël. These projects have repositories hosted on a community-accessible code hosting service, with a maintainer funded by Sencha. All Sencha Labs foundation projects, including jQTouch and Raphaël, will continue to be available at no cost under the MIT open-source license.
Sencha Product Suite
The Sencha product suite now includes:
- Sencha Touch - HTML5 mobile application framework for Android and iOS touchscreen devices;
- Ext JS for web developers - for quickly building rich, sustainable web applications for desktop browsers;
- Ext GWT for Java developers - enables Java developers to build rich user experiences leveraging the Google Web Toolkit compiler;
- Ext Designer - for easily assembling user interfaces using drag-and-drop functionality.
The Sencha Labs projects include:
- jQTouch - a progressive enhancement style, mobile library providing lightweight animation and UI plugin for JQuery;
- Raphaël - a rich SVG library for developing vector graphics applications on the web;
- Connect - an application framework that combines Rack and Node.js to provide a lean, event-driven application server.
Investors
Sequoia Capital
Since 1972, Sequoia Capital has provided seed stage, early stage and growth stage venture capital for very smart founders and executives who have turned great ideas into sustainable companies of enduring value. As the “Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs”, Sequoia Capital’s Partners have worked with accomplished innovators and operators who built great franchises such as A123, AdMob, Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Flextronics, Google, Informix, Linear Technology, LSI Logic, Microchip, NetScaler, NetScreen, Network Appliance, nVidia, Oracle, PayPal, Pure Digital, Redback Networks, Yahoo!, YouTube and Zappos.
Radar Partners
Radar Partners is a professional investment firm focused on both private and public equity investing. The firm’s four partners have decades of combined experience in business creation, executive leadership and capital markets management. In its venture portfolio, Radar looks to partner with great entrepreneurs focused on market changing opportunities in mobile ecosystems, cloud-based services, Internet infrastructure and consumer lifestyle services. Recent investments include Dasient, Puppet, Sencha and Stella and Dot.
