Sonix Raises 100M Yen From Nissay Capital / Venture Now

Sonix fundraised from Dentsu Digital Holdings in August as well. With the deal, its financing round is ended. Sonic mainly uses the money for launching offices abroad, global marketing and hiring to begin a full-scale global expansion. ...

Sonix focuses on providing Scirocco Cloud, a UI testing platform for Android applications, which allows users to remote control Android devices through web browser.

Along with rapid penetration of smartphone, new models of Android are appearing continuously, but UI test by devices is mandatory for developing new applications due to fragmentation of OS version, resolution, and performance. Scirocco Cloud automates the process. ...

Venture Now 9/25/2012 [jp]

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• Solutions targeting for application developers is one of the prominent trends in recent startups. There are several startups such as SHIFT providing test marketing platform for pre-launch applications. Another example would MUGENUP which recently fundraised provide crowd sourcing focused on design for social games developers.
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