Sencha Inc.
Sencha equips developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build amazing web application experiences using HTML5 and JavaScript.
With the release of HTML5, the Web is making the biggest leap forward in a generation. It’s now possible to support local structured storage, rich media, deep device access, and more using a web browser. And these capabilities are transforming how people engage with the Web and approach software design. The fact is, just about every type of application interaction can be delivered from any browser on any device.
With the right development tools from Sencha, the possibilities for today’s mature Web are endless. Our web standards-based products, which support every stage of application development, empower developers to create amazing cross-browser application experiences that execute with precision and performance. We offer HTML5-based web application frameworks tailored for desktop and mobile experiences; design tools that make application UI and CSS3 animation development easy; and the first ever cloud services for mobile application developers, dedicated to supporting your web application at anytime, anywhere.
Our active and growing developer community of over 1.6 million developers and over 300,000 registered community members is a testament to the passion of Sencha and our fan base.
Create amazing apps built on web standards today—with Sencha.
Sencha Labs
Sencha Labs is a non-profit foundation created to support open source projects affiliated with Sencha, like jQTouch and Raphaël. These projects have repositories hosted on a community-accessible service, like GitHub, and have their development funded by Sencha.
Investors
Sequoia Capital
Since 1972, Sequoia Capital has provided seed stage, early stage and growth stage venture capital for very smart founders and executives who have turned great ideas into sustainable companies of enduring value. As the “Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs”, Sequoia Capital’s Partners have worked with accomplished innovators and operators who built great franchises such as A123, AdMob, Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Flextronics, Google, Informix, Linear Technology, LSI Logic, Microchip, NetScaler, NetScreen, Network Appliance, nVidia, Oracle, PayPal, Pure Digital, Redback Networks, Yahoo!, YouTube and Zappos.
Radar Partners
Radar Partners is a professional investment firm focused on both private and public equity investing. The firm’s four partners have decades of combined experience in business creation, executive leadership and capital markets management. In its venture portfolio, Radar looks to partner with great entrepreneurs focused on market changing opportunities in mobile ecosystems, cloud-based services, Internet infrastructure and consumer lifestyle services. Recent investments include Dasient, Puppet, Sencha and Stella and Dot.
JAFCO Ventures
Based in Palo Alto, California, JAFCO Ventures is an independent venture capital partnership focused on companies that are emerging leaders in the software, semiconductor and communications industries. JAFCO Ventures was formed in 2003 and currently manages $200 million in capital. The fund's charter is to invest in venture opportunities with true "breakout" potential where JAFCO Ventures can meaningfully add value with capital, the experience of seasoned venture capital investors, and the deployment of our Asia business development (ABD) team. The role of the ABD team is to help JAFCO's portfolio companies generate revenue from customers in Japan and other parts of Asia.