NewBornTown

NewBornTown
Native name
 赤子城
Private
Industry Mobile apps, Mobile gaming, Internet security
Founded 2009
Founder Liu Chunhe (CEO)
Headquarters Beijing, China
Products Solo Launcher
Website www.newborn-town.com

NewBornTown (赤子城) is a Chinese mobile Internet company headquartered in Beijing, China. It is best known as the developer of the Solo Launcher[1] , Solo AppLock, Solo Lock.[2] Up today the Solo System apps gained over 500 million users worldwide .[3] NewBornTown is regarded as one of the fastest growing startups globally for the year 2014-2015. The company successfully finished Series C round financing in August 2015 with several hundred million in CNY, valuing the company over 500 million in USD.[4] Its well-known products Solo System apps (Solo Launcher)[5] were awarded as global best apps in 2015, while the development teams were also entitled as Google Play Top Developers.[6] [7]

History

September 2009: Harry Liu founded NewBornTown in Beijing.[8]

May 2013: Solo Launcher was launched.

June 2014: Finished its angel round of funding with USD 2 million from Shichun Wu and Mingming Huang.

November 2014: Finished A round funding with funding in the (RMB) millions, SOLO users exceed 50 million.

March 2015: In Nanjing, China, NewbornTown opens its design center with funding from the city government.

Feb 2015: Solo Launcher was introduced at Yahoo MDC as Typical Cases integrated with Yahoo Search and was built to integrate with Androids KitKat Holo Light UI.[9][10]

April 2015: SOLO users exceeded 100 million. Finished B round funding with RMB 200 million from Haitong Kaiyuan. Established its North American office in Draper University’s Hero City, in San Mateo, California.[11]

October 2015: SOLO users exceeds 200 million, and in a number countries the app was ranked first in the Personalization category on Google Play.

March 2016: Awarded as 2016 Best Overseas Development Company by ChinaBang.[12]

April 2016: Awarded as ZhongGuanCun Star Venture Company.

April 2016: Awarded as Most Promising Globalization Platform by GMIC together with UCWeb.

June 2016: NewBornTown product's Solo System users exceeds 500 million globally.[13]

August 2016: NewBornTown’s Solo Ad Platform boarded the non-gaming advertising platform list in AppsFlyer Performance Index H1.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Solo Launcher-Clean,Smooth,DIY". play.google.com.
  2. ↑ "Company Profile: NewbornTown". NewBornTown.
  3. ↑ "Company Profile: Product Solo System". NewBornTown. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  4. ↑ "AppSamurai - NewBornTown".
  5. ↑ "Solo Launcher: An android tinkerers dream come true". TechRepublic.
  6. ↑ ""The developers are to have great understanding of Chinese market" - Bashir Modanov, NewBornTown". Clickky.
  7. ↑ "PRnewswire: YouAppi and NewBornTown Partnership". PRNewswire.
  8. ↑ "Company Overview of NewBornTown". Bloomberg.
  9. ↑ "New Yahoo Mobile Development Suite Seduces App Makers With Analytics, Search, Ads". TechCrunch.
  10. ↑ "Solo Launcher was introduced at Yahoo MDC". NewBornTown.
  11. ↑ "Solo Launcher established office in Silicon Valley". NewBornTown.
  12. ↑ "The Winners Of The 2016 ChinaBang Awards For Innovation In China Tech". Technode.
  13. ↑ "Company Profile, About NewBornTown". NewBornTown.
  14. ↑ "Solo Ad Platform one of the top leading companies". NewBornTown.
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