see techhaus volantis . for the fictional city see volantis a song of ice and fire . for the google and htc tablet codenamed volantis see nexus 9 . volantis systems type private industry mobile internet headquarters guildford uk key people mark watson brett nulf martin gaffney jennifer bursack products framework mobile site builder mobile banking mobile self care services content management m commerce solutions portal management app creation campaign management subscription management number of employees 150 website www.antennasoftware.com volantis was a mobile internet software company based in guildford england it is now owned by antenna software inc. volantis provides mobile applications and software solutions which give operators and enterprises access to a content delivery platform and a device database which contained over 7 000 handsets as of february 2010 . 1 volantis was part of the w3c s mobile web initiative 2 a member of the open mobile alliance 3 and an advocate of open standards . contents 1 history 2 awards 3 open source contributions 4 acquisition 5 references 6 external links history edit volantis was founded by jennifer bursack martin gaffney brett nulf and mark watson who had all worked together at tivoli systems a subsidiary of ibm in the uk . in march 2000 the four founders resigned from ibm and approached investors under the name unwired ltd. 4 the company name was changed a few months later to volantis systems ltd. the taking its name from the constellation volans . the company s logo is a representation of the constellation . the initial idea which the founders took to investors involved developing a yellow pages like directory service for mobile phones . this was soon dropped in favour of creating technologies to enable companies to build web sites for all sorts of devices smart phones kiosks digital televisions gaming consoles and ... mobile phones . 5 the company received an initial investment of 3.2 m from kennet partners in mid 2000 . in 2001 the company received a round of funding led by softbank europe . the company grew quickly until the collapse of the internet bubble and the events of 11 september 2001 forced volantis to downsize and consolidate . several significant telecommunications account signings including telefonica and hutchison whampoa helped the company to recover and led it to change from offering a multi device service to a single device service as an enabler for mobile phone carriers . another funding round led by accel partners was completed in 2002 and in july 2005 volantis raised a further 7.5 million bringing the total venture capital raised to 31.6 million . 6 this achievement was recognised by fast track who included the company in their tech track 100 run in association with the sunday times in 2006 . 7 awards edit successful fund raising a series of high profile client wins and expansion into america which helped to boost sales 120 % a year from 1.6 m in 2003 to 7.9 m in 2005 led to the company s inclusion in fast track s tech track 100 in 2006 . 8 in 2010 volantis was selected as a distinguished honoree in the telecoms category at the stevie awards for international business achievement in recognition of their mobile self care solution . 9 open source contributions edit volantis released a java based open source framework for web applications building by mobile developers in early 2008 . 10 acquisition edit volantis was acquired by antenna software in february 2011 ; the financial details of the acquisition were not released . 11 atlantis was in turn bought by pegasystems in 2013 . 12 references edit david murphy mobile marketing 18 february 2010 http mobilemarketingmagazine.com content volantis celebrates device library milestone volantis chaired the w3c diwg and was also a founding sponsor of the w3c mobile web initiative light reading 21 june 2005 http www.lightreading.com document.asp doc id 76088 open mobile alliance current members http www.openmobilealliance.org membership currentmembers.aspx retrieved 4 august 2010 mike harkey stanford graduate school of business case study volantis 15 may 2006 https gsbapps.stanford.edu cases documents e224.pdf retrieved 15 september 2010 mike harkey stanford graduate school of business case study volantis 15 may 2006 https gsbapps.stanford.edu cases documents e224.pdf retrieved 16 september 2010 mike harkey stanford graduate school of business case study volantis 15 may 2006 https gsbapps.stanford.edu cases documents e224.pdf retrieved 19 october 2010 fast track 2006 tech track 100 2006 http www.fasttrack.co.uk fasttrack leagues dbdetails.asp siteid 3 & compid 1891 & yr 2006 retrieved 19 october 2010 fast track 2006 tech track 100 2006 http www.fasttrack.co.uk fasttrack leagues dbdetails.asp siteid 3 & compid 1891 & yr 2006 retrieved 19 october 2010 the international business awards new product & product management awards category honorees 1 august 2010 http www.stevieawards.com pubs iba awards 408 2633 20490 . cfm retrieved 19 october 2010 networkworld volantis releases open source mobile internet toolkit 21 mar 2008 http www.networkworld.com redesign08 news 2008 032108 voltanis mobile open source.html page 2 techcrunch antenna acquires mobile internet software company volantis 7 feb 2011 http techcrunch.com 2011 02 07 antenna acquires mobile internet software company volantis pegasystems acquires antenna software . business standard 16 october 2013 . external links edit antenna software inc. retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title volantis & oldid 740140774 categories companies based in guildfordinternet companies of the united kingdomhidden categories use dmy dates from december 2012use british english from december 2012pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 september 2016 at 08 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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