GetJar is an independent mobile phone app store founded in Lithuania in 2004, with offices in Vilnius, Lithuania and San Mateo, California.
History
The company was founded by Ilja Laurs in 2004, who was its Executive Chairman, and Chris Dury, who was the CEO.[1] Accel Partners and Tiger Global Management were among the investors.
GetJar was started by developers for developers in 2004 as an app beta testing platform. The platform started making free apps available in early 2005.
In June 2010, about 300,000 software developers added apps to GetJar resulting in over one billion downloads.[2] In July 2011, GetJar had over two billion downloads.
GetJar was initially acquired by Sungy Mobile in February 2014, but the deal ultimately fell.[3]