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http://famo.us/

Last activity: 06.11.2015

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Famo.us enables application developers to build beautiful native speed based apps and games in HTML5 that take advantage of famo.us' 3D rendering, 3D physics, multi-screen and gesture engines. Designers can access the motion via the physics engine without coding, application developers can build quickly using app templates and widgets and platform engineers can build their own primitives from scratch with direct source code access to the full power of the famo.us engines.

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Total raised: $29M

Investors 2

Date	Name	Website
-	Javelin Ve...	javelinvp....
-	InterWest ...	interwest....

Funding Rounds 2

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
19.08.2014	Series B	$25M	-
03.03.2013	Series A	$4M	-

Mentions in press and media 23

Date	Title	Description
06.11.2015	$30M Later, Struggling JavaScript Platform Famo.us Pivots	Famo.us’ 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end. JavaScript rendering engine Famo.us has pivoted away from its hardcore open sourced engineering platform which had raised over $31 million. It’s now refocused on commercializing t...
15.01.2015	Famo.us joins the jQuery Foundation to make crazy-cool web dev a lot easier	Famo.us, the startup that got the crazy idea of inventing a 3D layout engine and a physics animation engine for websites and apps, would very much like to see developers adopt its complex technology and built some seriously sweet websites. ...
18.11.2014	TC Cribs: Famo.us, The Startup Office That Feels Like Home (Because It Used To Be One)	In this episode of Cribs, we headed over to Famo.us, the startup that’s built a web platform for developers and designers. A lot of tech companies try to make their offices feel as homey as possible for the comfort of their employees, but F...
19.08.2014	Famo.us Secures $25M in Series B Funding	Famo.us, a San Francisco, CA-based operator of a JavaScript development framework, secured $25m in Series B funding. The round was led by Insight Ventures and Javelin Venture Partners. In conjunction with the funding, Jerry Murdock of Insig...
15.08.2014	Funding roundup - week ending 8/15/14	BuzzFeed, FoodPanda, Traitify, Greenhouse, AuditFile, AdStage, RelayRides, Lookout, Axial, Zubie Seed stage Beautified, a booking app for last minute hair and beauty appointments, raised $1.2 million in seed from NEA, Manzanita Capital, Car...
13.08.2014	Famo.us raises $25M to double down on its innovative JavaScript framework	The promise of HTML5 was to bring smooth dynamic graphics and new rich content features to all browsers and devices. But that promise has gone largely unmet, and, on mobile devices, we are still living very much in a native app world. Now, ...
09.04.2014	HTML5 apps can be just as speedy as native apps with the new Famo.us Javascript framework	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Get ready for round two of the HTML5-versus-native app debate. After three years of development, Famo.us is today officially launching ...
17.02.2014	DeveloperWeek organizes 25-plus dev events in one week	This sponsored post is produced by Data 2.0. Tech companies Facebook, Microsoft, Rackspace and Google are among those headlining or hosting developer events for the second annual DeveloperWeek Conference & Festival 2014 in downtown San ...
17.12.2013	Famo.us shows the prettiest of 3D user interfaces for web-based mobile devices	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Steve Newcomb wants touchscreen user interfaces for mobile web apps to be beautiful with enhanced 3D graphics. The chief executive of F...
05.12.2013	Founders Fund and SOSventures launch startup accelerator for Leap Motion’s gesture tech	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Founders Fund and SOSventures have joined to launch Leap Axlr8r –– a startup accelerator for companies building on Leap Motion, the ges...
04.12.2013	Famo.us Unveils Widgets To Get More Developers On Board, Integrates With Firebase And Others	After two-and-a-half years, Famo.us is (almost) ready to make its JavaScript development platform available to the world, and today it’s taking one big step closer to making that a reality. In its effort to create a modern, high-performance...
03.11.2013	App Indexing, Predictive Services, And Unlocking Mobile Distribution	Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil. There is a “perfect storm” brewing in consumer mobile: Developers, companies...
15.09.2013	Famo.us Finally Rolls Into (Very) Private Beta, Hires A Founder Of Facebook’s Dev Platform As VP Of Engineering	Back at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, Famo.us announced a Javascript framework for building super complex yet still super-smooth HTML5 apps. They promised to let developers build rich, 3D, Iron-Man-esque interfaces running in the browser at 4...
10.06.2013	Startup Famo.us Gets A Quick Demo On-Stage At WWDC	Apple usually shares the spotlight at its WWDC keynote with a few of its developers and partners. Today, the big winner was probably Andreessen Horowitz-backed AI startup Anki, but what also caught our attention was a brief demo of Famo.us,...
04.06.2013	4 tools native devs should be using to transition to the mobile web	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. The mobile web has long — and we mean long — been mobile developers’ promised land of milk and honey, a world where you never have to c...
01.04.2013	Famo.us, The Framework For Fast And Beautiful HTML5 Apps, Will Be Free Thanks To “Huge Hardware Vendor Interest”	Famo.us, the JavaScript framework designed for building crazy rich (yet super fast) interfaces in pure HTML5, is making two announcements out of the HTML5 Developer Conference in San Francisco this morning: the framework will be free to dev...
04.03.2013	Famo.us Raises $4M in Series A Funding	Famo.us, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a JavaScript ecosystem to develop HTML5 apps, raised $4m in Series A funding. The round was led by existing backer Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from undisclosed hardware vendors...
04.03.2013	This startup is trying to take the mobile web where Google, Facebook, et al. have failed to go	“Everyone knows that if you make HTML5 perform, you change the game,” said Steve Newcomb, the founder of semi-stealth startup Famo.us, in his company’s SoMa loft last week. His statement is a fact so well established that I have to wonder a...
03.03.2013	Steve Newcomb’s Famo.us Raises $4M To Power Fast, Beautiful Apps In HTML5	Famo.us, which offers a JavaScript framework that’s designed to power HTML5 apps that are faster and better-looking than what’s currently possible, has raised $4 million in Series A funding. The round was led by previous investor Javelin Ve...
16.10.2012	Famo.us Reveals More Details About Its HTML5 Turbo-Charger	Last month as part of our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield Coverage, we wrote about Famo.us, the company behind a forthcoming HTML5 framework that its developers claim will make it easier to build HTML5 apps that perform as well as native app...
12.10.2012	Famo.us describes how it created a magical user interface for the web	When Famo.us debuted its new user interface at TechCrunch Disrupt a few weeks ago, it was overlooked amid all of the news from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg. But the Famo.us user interface, based on an extended conversation I had with founde...
12.10.2012	Famo.us describes how it created a magical user interface for the web	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. When Famo.us debuted its new user interface at TechCrunch Disrupt a few weeks ago, it was overlooked amid all of the news from the like...
10.09.2012	Famo.us Is A Gaming Engine For 3D Interfaces	Famo.us, launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco and brought to you by the same guy who founded PowerSet (Steve Newcomb), lets developers write fully 3D apps without having to depend on complex programming tricks or compiled ...

Famous Project

Investors 2

Funding Rounds 2

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