About This Deal

Microsoft Corporation acquired Xamarin, a transaction announced in February 2016.

Xamarin operates in Developer tools, is based in San Francisco, California, USA. Microsoft agreed to acquire Xamarin, a cross-platform mobile app development company whose tooling lets developers write native iOS, Android and Windows apps in C# using .NET. At announcement Xamarin had more than 15,000 customers and over 1.3 million developers, and the two firms had already integrated Xamarin into Visual Studio, Azure and Office 365. Terms were not disclosed.

Deepen Microsoft's developer tooling by pairing Xamarin with Visual Studio and Azure for an end-to-end mobile app solution on any device.

Deal Terms

Acquirer
Microsoft Corporation
Target
Xamarin
Value
Not disclosed
Date
February 2016
Type
Acquisition
Status
Official-source — no SEC filing

Transaction Details

Target HQ
San Francisco, California, USA
Segment
Developer tools
Announced
February 24, 2016

In Their Words

I am pleased to announce today that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a leading platform provider for mobile app development.Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud + Enterprise, Microsoft

Advisors

Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.

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