Xamarin was a San Francisco software company founded in May 2011 by the engineers behind Mono, the open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET framework, to build and sell tools for writing native mobile apps in C#. Its Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS products, later joined by Xamarin.Mac and the Xamarin.Forms interface toolkit, let developers share one C# codebase across Android, iOS and Windows. The company grew after the Mono team lost its home when Novell was acquired by Attachmate in 2011, and it raised a Series B round of 16 million dollars in 2013 and a Series C round of 54 million dollars in 2014. Microsoft announced it would acquire Xamarin in February 2016, open sourced the Xamarin SDK, and bundled it into Visual Studio. Microsoft ended support for the platform on 1 May 2024 in favor of .NET MAUI.
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Xamarin Inc. is a Microsoft-owned San Francisco-based software company founded in May 2011
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In May 2011, Friedman and de Icaza founded Xamarin, with Friedman as CEO.
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In May 2011, Friedman and de Icaza founded Xamarin, with Friedman as CEO.
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