Polar Mobile launched in 2007 in Waterloo, across the street from RIM, an appropriate location for a company that would build applications for mobile devices. Now headquartered in the financial district, the company has seen rapid growth. "We've grown from 19 or 20 employees at the start of this year to 40 employees now," says Director of Business Development Jon Zifkin, and the company is hiring three more. And all those bodies have been busy: in late September, the company
announced it had surpassed the milestone of launching 150 "superapps" for BlackBerry smartphones, serving 6 million users in 100 countries and nine languages.
"We've had quite a year of deployments," says Zifkin, "We put the R & D development into a solid platform and now we're just seeing our growth keeping up with our deployment strategy.
The company's proprietary platform "SMART" allows clients to develop applications for iPhones, Blackberrys, and Android smartphones.
With a footprint established in Asia, the Middle East and South America, Zifkin says he sees bigger things ahead. "The immediate future is pretty steady growth," he says, "as we continue expanding our reach globally."
Writer: Edward Keenan
Source: Jon Zifkin, Director of Business Development, Polar Mobile