Meteor Agrees To Acquire Percolate Studio To Further Advance as the JavaScript App Platform Industry Leader

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Meteor Development Group (MDG), the creator of the first unified JavaScript application development platform for mobile and web, today announced an agreement to acquire Percolate Studio.

Percolate Studio designs and engineers digital products and has significant, direct experience in building, deploying and supporting production apps with Meteor. Percolate team members will join Meteor in a variety of roles across the company such as product development and customer success. Zoltan Olah, co-founder of Percolate Studio, will lead Meteor customer success to ensure developers, startups, and enterprises alike have the necessary support to build amazing apps.

As part of this function, Meteor will be offering a commercial developer subscription to provide technical support and design review assistance to its customers. This offering will ensure greater interaction for those customers who would like assurance that they can receive guaranteed support when they need it, benefiting both Meteor customers as well as its partner ecosystem of service providers.

"As we continue to build the highest quality team and products, we're excited to bring the talents of Percolate Studio to MDG and use their extensive real-world experience to even better serve the Meteor ecosystem," said Geoff Schmidt, CEO of Meteor Development Group. "Additionally, with Meteor's adoption and deployment accelerating, and JavaScript being embraced as the standard for web and mobile apps, we want to be able to deliver commercial-grade support that matches the development experience we are known for."

"Joining Meteor is a natural fit for Percolate because we've long been dedicated to creating terrific Meteor apps for customers, and contributing back to the Meteor community with initiatives such as the Atmosphere package management system," said Zoltan Olah, co-founder of Percolate Studio. "We're excited to now be able to use our experience and skills to support even more customers across the Meteor ecosystem."

For more information about a Meteor Developer Subscription, please visit: https://www.meteor.com/services/subscription

About Meteor

Meteor Development Group is setting the standard for modern application development for cloud/client architectures for mobile and web with its JavaScript App Platform, Meteor.  Meteor is making app development radically simple for developers everywhere. The open source Meteor project is overseen by San Francisco-based Meteor Development Group, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, Y Combinator, and individual investors. Meteor was created in 2012 by Geoff Schmidt, Nick Martin, and Matt DeBergalis. Meteor is available for download at www.meteor.com.

Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150624/225585LOGO

SOURCE Meteor Development Group