Cyanogen harvest $ 80 million and aims 3rd place mobile OS

Cyanogen ambitions are constantly increasing over its success. Now Cyanogen wants to make its OS the third mobile OS in the world.

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Cyanogen beginning to think big with the recent fundraiser where the company was able to obtain $ 80 million. The Cyanogen mobile OS, which is based on the Android kernel, is already used by almost 50 million consumers worldwide. The company now dream to get on the podium OS.


Cyanogen manages to raise $ 80 million

The small startup Cyanogen has come a long way since its inception and is really starting to interest investors. At the recent lifting 80 million fund, the mobile OS Cyanogen has convinced prestigious companies. It may be noted eg Telefonica Ventures, Twitter Ventures, Benchmark, Andreessen Horowitz, Qualcomm Incorporated, Smartfren Telecom Tencent Holdings, Redpoint Ventures, Australian media (Rupert Murdoch in person!). A notable absentee ... Microsoft, which withdrew at the last moment.

The mobile OS Cyanogen is seen as a real alternative on the market, which could not only put forward as a third mobile operating system to Windows, but also fragment the yet solid base of Google's Android. Indeed, Cyanogen is built around an Android kernel, but Cyanogen is considerably more customizable and it is not impossible that manufacturers prefer one day choose his offer considerably less expensive than Android and closed.

Cyanogen wants to tackle Google and Apple in OS

It will be quite interesting to follow the fate of this young start-up, which seems to offer great promise in the mobile universe. Currently, more than 50 million users have Cyanogen and the company wants to go rub shoulders with giants Apple's iOS and Google's Android sector.

As noted by a colleague of Silicon site, the CEO of Cyanogen, Kirt McMaster seems to have appetite and ambition, you could listen to his words hold during an interview with Business Insider, " the great OEMs like Samsung will become the next Nokia over the next five years. They'll get slaughtered. We believe the long term, Apple itself will have problems because it is simply not a good competitor in the entry. "
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