wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources aquafadas news newspapers books scholar jstor free images september 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message aquafadas industry computer software digital publishing production & distribution of comics founder claudia zimmer matthieu kopp headquarters montpellier france area served worldwide owner kobo inc. website http www.aquafadas.com aquafadas is a privately owned french software development company that offers applications in the field of digital publishing for magazines newspapers book and comic book publishers agencies and enterprises . the company also offers creative software for flash html5 1 photo and video editing . aquafadas runs avecomics a comic book store for digital comic books that can be consumed on computers tablet computers and smartphones . as of august 2011 aquafadas products are used by more than 50 000 uses worldwide . contents 1 fields of business 2 company history 3 awards 4 founders and management 5 notes 6 external links fields of business edit authoring software and systems for digital publishing of rich design content on smartphones tablet computers and the web . 2 desktop applications for mac and microsoft windows . production services and sales and distribution platform for digital publishing of comic books on smartphones tablet computers desktop computers and the web . company history edit aquafadas was launched in 2004 in montpellier france by matthieu kopp and claudia zimmer with their first product idive . aquafadas name was inspired by aqua the name of apple s mac os x graphical user interface and fada which means muse inspirational tutelary goddess of the arts in occitan language a gallo romanic language spoken in southern parts of france . aquafadas could be translated as inspired by the mac . 2004 creation of the first software idive . 3 2006 aquafadas was founded as a company and moved its offices to cap omega 4 a business incubator that has received the award for best global incubator of start ups awarded by the national business incubation association nbia . 5 2012 kobo acquires aquafadas . 6 the canadian e reading company kobo recently owned by the japanese ecommerce giant rakuten acquired aquafadas . the over 10 million kobo users will soon get richer media content with aquafadas digital publishing system . publishers that are clients of the french company also benefit from this acquisition with an easier means to distribute content . awards edit 30th place at the deloitte technology fast 500 emea 2011 7 1st place at the deloitte technology fast 50 france 2011 in software & computer services sector 8 red herring top 100 europe 2012 award finalist . 9 10 o reilly mac innovators award 2005 san francisco . 11 macgeneration trophy for the best integration of apple technologies 2005 idive . trophy for the best application macgeneration 2006 pulpmotion . 12 target grand prix start ups start up of the year for the languedoc roussillon in december 2006 . national competition for the creation of innovative businesses in category building development ministry of research oseo anvar . grand prix software venture capital senate 2008 for ave comics . 13 cnc centre national du cinema and the moving image as part of the call for projects of the network riam research and innovation in audiovisual and multimedia r & d program of 1 million euros . 14 research program book digital 2.0 base 1.6 million euros oseo anvar . founders and management edit claudia zimmer president . master s degree in architecture . 15 matthieu kopp chief technology officer . studied engineering at cole centrale paris . phd in astrophysics . notes edit 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and international winners of the 2004 mac os x innovators contest announced . o reilly . retrieved 1 december 2015 . troph es les r sultats . macgeneration . retrieved 1 december 2015 . venture capital event . essec business school . retrieved 2 december 2015 . network research and innovation in audiovisual and multimedia riam results of the 2006 call for projects . cnc . retrieved 2 december 2015 . interview reading into the future with aquafadas . what s new in publishing . retrieved 2 december 2015 . external links edit official website aquafadas blog v t e kobo ereaders and tablets current kobo touch kobo glo kobo glo hd kobo aura kobo aura h2o discontinued kobo ereader kobo mini kobo arc kobo aura hd key people michael serbinis involved companies aquafadas indigo rakuten v t e rakuten internet services ebates kobo inc. overdrive inc. ozon.ru priceminister rakuten.com rakuten.co.uk rakuten linkshare viber viki wuaki.tv software aquafadas sports tohoku rakuten golden eagles vissel 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