Developer tools

Pixate

Pixate was acquired by Google, Inc. in July 2015. * Pixate was founded in May 2012 with the goal of enabling designers and developers to create beautiful, native mobile apps quickly and easily. Pixate's flagship product, the Pixate Engine for iOS, integrates a CSS-based styling engine, graphics rendering system, and a SVG-subset for supporting scalable vector graphics. The CSS-based stylings can be changed at run-time and can be downloaded and updated on-demand. The Pixate Engine for iOS version

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affiliations

Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator

competitors

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2026-07-15

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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #813

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Andreessen Horowitz

a16z-investment-list #730

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High Signal interpretation

Pixate is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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CSS-based styling enginePixate Enginegraphics rendering systemSVG-subsetPixate Engine for iOSscalable vector graphicsPixatedevelopers

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Companies similar to Pixate

Developer tools · 6 peers

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Tsumobi

match 61

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shared extracted concepts: developers; shared product terms: enabl, developer, mobile, download; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator

bitrig

match 60

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shared product terms: native, mobile, apps, ios; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Heyzap

match 59

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shared extracted concept terms: developer; shared product terms: mobile, apps, ios, developer; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Buncha

match 24

CHANGING THE WAY YOU SHOP, ONE RUN AT A TIME.

shared product terms: chang, run, time

PiCloud

match 11

Developer tools company.

same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz; nearby official-directory cohort

Point

match 6

Other company.

shared affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz; nearby official-directory cohort