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Bluestacks is a Silicon Valley-based software company that produces two main products: BlueStacks App Player for PC and BlueStacks Cloud Connect. Both products revolve around enabling Android applications to run on Windows PCs and tablets. The company was founded in 2009 by Rosen Sharma, former CTO at McAfee and board member of Cloud.com[1], along with Suman Saraf, Jay Vaishnav and others.

Products[edit | edit source]

The company officially launched May 25, 2011 at the Citrix Synergy conference in San Francisco. Citrix CEO Mark Templeton demonstrated an early version of BlueStacks onstage and announced that the companies had formed a partnership. App Player and Cloud Connect officially launched into public alpha on October 11, 2011[2] . App Player is a downloadable piece of Windows software that comes pre-loaded with several apps including Bloomberg News, Words With Friends and Drag Racing.[3] More apps can be downloaded using the "Featured Apps" channel provided with the software. Cloud Connect[4] is an Android App downloadable from the Android Market that allows additional apps to be pushed into BlueStacks App Player from any Android device.

On October 13, 2011, BlueStacks was the subject of a CNET TV video review by Senior Editor Seth Rosenblatt.[5]

Funding[edit | edit source]

The company raised $7.6 million in Series A funding in May, 2011 from Andreessen-Horowitz, Radar Partners, Helion Ventures, Ignition Partners and RedPoint Ventures.[6]. On Oct. 20, 2011 it was announced that the company had raised another $6.4 million in Series B financing[7] from the same group of investors, as well as the chip-maker AMD.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Executive Profile - Rosen Sharma". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=434225&privcapId=7072929&previousCapId=97993550&previousTitle=Cloud.com,%20Inc.. Retrieved 4 December 2011. 
  2. Empson, Rip. "BlueStacks Releases App Player And Cloud Connect Service To Let You Run Android Apps On Your PC". TechCrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/11/bluestacks-releases-app-player-and-cloud-connect-service-to-let-you-run-android-apps-on-pcs/. Retrieved 10/11/2011. 
  3. Whitney, Lance. "Android apps can now run on your PC via BlueStacks". CNET. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20118500-93/android-apps-can-now-run-on-your-pc-via-bluestacks/. Retrieved 10/11/2011. 
  4. "BlueStacks Cloud Connect in Android Market". https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bluestacks.appsyncer. Retrieved 4 December 2011. 
  5. Rosenblatt, Seth. "BlueStacks Presides Over the First Windows-Android Wedding". CNET TV. http://cnettv.cnet.com/bluestacks-presides-over-first-windows-android-wedding/9742-1_53-50113123.html. Retrieved 10/13/2011. 
  6. Fried, Ina. "Start-Up BlueStacks Raises Cash to Bring Android Apps to Windows PCs". All Things D/Wall Street Journal. http://allthingsd.com/20110524/startup-bluestacks-raises-cash-to-bring-android-apps-to-windows-pcs/. Retrieved 05/24/2011. 
  7. Kim, Ryan. "BlueStacks raises $6.4M to bring Android apps to PCs". GigaOM. http://gigaom.com/2011/10/20/bluestacks-raises-5-6m-to-bring-android-apps-to-pcs/. Retrieved 10/20/2011. 

External Links[edit | edit source]

Official Website

BlueStacks' Facebook Page