founded 2002 founder vassil terziev svetozar georgiev boyko iaramov hristo kosev headquarters mladost sofia bulgaria number of locations bulgaria united states australia germany india denmark united kingdom area served global parent progress software website www.telerik.com telerik is a bulgarian company offering software tools for web 1 mobile desktop application development tools and subscription services for cross platform application development . 2 founded in 2002 as a company focused on . net development tools telerik now also sells a platform for web hybrid and native app development . 3 on october 22 2014 progress software announced its acquisition of telerik . 4 the acquisition was finalized on december 1 2014 . contents 1 overview 2 growth 3 products and technologies 3.1 controls suite 3.2 cloud development 3.3 application lifecycle management 3.4 content management 4 industry awards 5 open source software products 6 references 7 external links overview edit telerik was founded in 2002 by four graduates of american university in bulgaria and technical university of sofia . 5 initially focused on providing outsourced software development for foreign and bulgarian companies 5 the company shifted its direction to the creation of application development tools . its first product rad editor rapid application development 6 was a web page editor designed to support the then recently launched microsoft technology asp.net . the company then expanded its offerings to include user interface ui navigation controls and the telerik sitefinity content management system a few years later . 7 based upon developer interaction telerik developed tools targeted to support other . net technologies such as asp.net ajax asp.net mvc wpf silverlight and windows windows phone . 8 telerik introduced support for html5 and javascript in 2011 with its kendo ui product 9 coinciding with expected industry growth in mobile adoption . 10 growth edit company growth came by way of hiring in bulgaria as well as expansion and acquisition abroad 11 2008 germany acquired vanatec gmbh an enterprise grade orm provider 12 2010 usa merged with artoftest adding the test studio product 13 2010 canada acquired teampulse via a partnership deal with imaginet 14 2011 uk and australia expansion 15 2012 usa acquired fiddler the web debugging proxy 16 2013 denmark acquired eqatec analytics a software analytics suite 17 as of 2013 telerik has 800 employees in 11 offices 18 led by co ceos vassil terziev and svetozar georgiev 19 and chief product officer aaron mahimainathan . 20 on october 22 2014 progress software announced its acquisition of telerik . 4 products and technologies edit telerik is known for its . net user interface controls 21 but through acquisition and invention expanded to support additional areas of the software development lifecycle controls suite edit devcraft a collection of ui controls and widgets with versions for use with applications developed on the . net platform asp.net ajax asp.net mvc and wpf html5 kendoui or through xamarin for mobile devices . cloud development edit telerik platform an integrated group of saas products that together provide the ability to plan develop deploy and measure cross platform and mobile applications via the cloud . application lifecycle management edit teampulse an agile development project management tool test studio a tool that helps software developers implement testing protocols . content management edit sitefinity a web content management system cms used to create and manage websites accessed via desktop or mobile devices . industry awards edit awards telerik has received for its products and business practices include best employer in bulgaria 2013 22 20 recognitions in visual studio magazine s reader s choice awards 2013 23 gold stevie in 2013 sitefinity 24 2013 best of teched award software development telerik devcraft 25 open source software products edit for most of its products telerik takes a proprietary approach to its development process . however it also has several products that are free and open source kendo ui core 26 data access just decompile and the sitefinity project feather 27 initiative . references edit castellanos sara february 21 2014 . telerik hires vet of 5nine software & smartbear . boston business journal . narayanaswamy anand february 6 2014 . build web hybrid or native web apps with telerik platform . infoq.com . lardinois frederic january 28 2014 . telerik launches new development platform for web hybrid and native apps . tech crunch . a b progress software announces intent to acquire telerik . october 22 2014 . a b petrov hristo december 21 2012 . how the founders of the telerik made their company a global player . forbes bulgaria . narayanaswamy anand december 12 2003 . product review rad.editor v3 .0 for asp.net . asp alliance . telerik launches sitefinity . gilbane.com . february 21 2005 . taft darryl k. july 15 2011 . telerik delivers new tools for . net developers . eweek . waters john k. december 1 2011 . telerik releases kendo ui framework . redmond developer news . richmond holly march 21 2011 . the growth of mobile marketing and tagging . microsoft tag blog . dzhambazova boryana october 30 2012 . bulgarian company homes in on technological niche . new york times . mass high tech telerik picks up german software firm oct 13 2008 visual studio magazine telerik expands portfolio with team development tools devpro telerik makes a cluster of announcements at devconnections vs 2010 launch telerik expands into the uk and australia . reuters . march 14 2011 . ward keith september 9 2013 . telerik buys fiddler debugging tool . visual studio magazine . wauters robin 7 march 2013 . telerik acquires danish cross platform app analytics software maker eqatec . krippendorf kaihan march 12 2013 . to create innovation learn how to see a fourth option . fast company . telerik closes out first decade of business with a bang . pr web . january 29 2013 . telerik hires former sap vp aaron mahimainathan as chief product officer . yahoo finance . march 11 2014 . bridgwater adrian october 21 2013 . extra controls in telerik . net developer tool . dr dobbs . best employers bulgaria 2013 . aon hewitt . ward keith october 8 2013 . the visual studio magazine 2013 reader s choice awards are out more than 400 products were voted on to find the best . . visual studio magazine . retrieved june 12 2014 . the american business awards 2013 . congratulations to our best of teched 2013 winners . windows itpro . june 5 2013 . jackson joab april 21 2014 . html5 components released as open source . infoworld . idg news service . retrieved 13 june 2014 . williamson tim february 21 2014 . project feather 7 new reasons to love telerik sitefinity . codemoar . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title telerik & oldid 743974754 categories companies established in 2002software companies based 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