Buddybuild

Buddybuild is the Canadian startup specializing in creation of development tools of software for programmers. Software tools of Buddybuild are applied to creating applications in a so-called "flexible method of development" at which new features are quickly created, published and then often change eventually.

Buddybuild describes itself as the "platform of mobile iteration" focused on continuous integration and instruments of completion — in fact, the company creates to development team of applications simple workflow for completion and promotion of applications through GitHub, BitBucket or GitLab.

Buddybuild in 2015 based former employees of Amazon Dennis Pilarinos (Dennis Pilarinos) and Christopher Stott in Vancouver. For January, 2018 in the company there are about 40 employees, reported on official to the page in LinkedIn. The startup attracted nearly $8.8 million to the beginning of the 2018th, and Canadian Stewart Butterfield, the founder and the head Slack service is among his edvayzer. Mozilla, Hootsuite, Reddit, SoundCloud, Foursquare and The New York Times are also clients of the company.

2017: Apple buys Buddybuild

At the beginning of 2018 the American producer of consumer electronics Apple purchased the Canadian startup of Buddybuild. The company will join the division of Xcode Engineering Group Apple developing the tool kit for software development of Apple used by third-party programmers at creating applications for iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS. Financial terms of transaction are not disclosed.

Apple purchased a startup on rapid development of software of Buddybuild

Services of Buddybuild will be available to the existing clients as an independent product via the website of the company. According to the statement of the company, the Free Starter program and application development for Android will also be stopped since March 1, 2018.^[1]

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