Yapp Mobile was formed in 2007 by a group of experienced investors with the aim to build on the IP and mapping excellence of specialist mapping software development company PMP Software.
To date location based mobile applications have been somewhat of a niche offering. Yapp Mobile has spent the past 4 years fine tuning their platform and applications, waiting for mass market adoption of GPS enabled smartphones. This day has now arrived...
History
In June 2007 Yapp Mobile launched one of the first cloud-based (connected) GPS Navigation services.
Yapp's suite of products has been chosen by Vodafone Hutchison Australia & Vodafone New Zealand as the engine behind Vodafone Compass, which launched in September 2007.
Investors
Yapp Mobile completed it's first private equity round of funding in August 2007 and its second in September 2008.
Team
Yapp Mobile's team is based in Sydney, Australia; and boasts talented developers from four continents.