Acrodea

Infobox Company
company_name = Acrodea
company_type = Public
foundation = July 12, 2004
founder = Junya Tsutsumi
location =
industry = Mobile Middleware Solution
num_employees = 100(2008)
revenue = profit 3.1 billion yen (2008)
homepage = [www.acrodea.com]

Acrodea is a world leading Japanese company which produces & sells middleware solution for various mobiles around the world. The major product is VIVID UI which leads engineers and designers to make creative displays and even 3Ds or rich user interfaces easily. For the foreseeable future, the company intends to introduce products in a balanced fashion that addresses more functions in mobile phones (including messaging, community, games, and camera) for the reinforcement of the licensing business.

History

2004 - 2007

2004. July - Acrodea,Inc. Founded by Junya TsuTsumi.

2004. Dec – Developed ‘VIVID Message’ for mobiles e-mail application.

2005. Mar – Developed User Interface Solution ‘VIVID UI’ that copes with Multimedia.

2005. Dec - Acrodea Korea branch Established.

2006. Apr – Undertakes Fathammer Ltd. product SDK ‘X-Forge’ for games.

2006. Jul - Acrodea Europe Branch Established.

2006. Sep – Developed ‘VIVID Panorama’ which enables to take panorama pictures with simple control on mobiles.

2006. Oct – Publicized the stock in Tokyo bond trades ‘Mothers’.

2007. Mar – Agreed to cooperate on ‘X-Forge Ver 3.0’ business with BANDAI NETWORKS

Major Customers

Samsung Electronics

Quattro Media

NTT DoCoMo

KDDI

Softbank Mobile

MegaChips

LSI Solutions

BANDAI NETWORKS

Board of Directors

Representative Director, President & CEO Junya Tsutsumi

Executive Vice President & CTO Yoshio Kuniyoshi

Director & CFO Isao Sugiyama

Director Jun Sato

Director & CDO Tsuguhiro Kimura

Director & CMO Atsushi Nakamura

Director Takehiko Hatta

Auditor Takeo Kudo

Auditor Hiroshi Hongo

Auditor Koji Nakajima

Major Stockholders

Junya Tsutsumi

NTT DoCoMo, Inc.

BNY GCM CLIENT ACCOUNT JPRD AC ISG (FE-AC)

KDDI CORPORATION

Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trust account)

Yoshio Kuniyoshi

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC

DoCoMo.com

BANDAI NETWORKS CO., LTD

The Master Trust Bank of Japan ,Ltd. (Trust account)

International Offices

Acrodea, Inc. Europe Branch

Urho Kekkosen katu 5 C 3krs, 00100 Helsinki Finland

TEL: [phone]

FAX: [phone]

Acrodea America, Inc.

895 Dove Street, 3rd Floor,

Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA

TEL: [phone]

FAX: [phone]

Acrodea Mobile Solution Inc. (provisional name)*

18F, Korea Sanhak foundation Bldg,

1337-31, Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu,

Seoul, Korea 137-072

TEL: [phone]

FAX: [phone]

*Until the closing process is completed for the branch office of Acrodea, Inc., in Korea, the company name is provisional. Once the branch closure is registered, the Korea subsidiary will be renamed Acrodea Korea, Inc.