Founded in 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by CEO Arnold Leung. During its first year in business, Appnovation Technologies helped the current Tatango launch the older version of the mobile texting platform called NetworkText. By 2009, the company had grown to become the 15th biggest web development company in Vancouver. In 2010 Appnovation was ranked #16 in PROFIT's Profit Hot 50 List and Leung was included on Business in Vancouver's Top Forty Under 40 list. In 2011 Leung was also named BDC'sYoung Entrepreneur of the Year for British Columbia and Appnovation was a finalist in the Small Business BC "Successful You Awards" in the Best Company category. In 2011 the company's revenue had tripled from the previous year, at $4.2 million. In 2014, the company opened an office in Montreal, Quebec and a sales and development centre in Saint John, New Brunswick. In the same year, the company was included in the Deloitte Fast 50 of fastest-growing Canadian technology companies. The company now also has U.S. offices in Atlanta, Boston, New York City and San Francisco, European offices in Cardiff, London, Ghent, Utrecht, and an office in Hong Kong. In 2016, the company was again included in the Deloitte "Fast 50" and Fast 500, with 449% growth between 2012 and 2015. In late 2016, Appnovation completed its first acquisition, buying the digital agency Wunderkraut Benelux, which brought their number of employees to 250. Moving ahead to April 2020, Appnovation worked with the Ministry of Health in British Columbia on digital solutions to help lessen the risk COVID-19 cross-contamination between province-wide healthcare facilities. This project focused on the development of business processes, digital systems and real-time collaboration to support the collection, analysis and reporting of personnel data that allowed health authorities to make decisions about provincial healthcare resourcing and implement a Single Site Staffing initiative.
Awards and recognition
In 2017, the company received the EMEA 'Best New Partner' award at the MuleSoft Connect conference. Other awards include the 2013 Blue Drop Award for the best Marketplace/eCommerce Website, an Acquia "Partner Site of the Year" award for the mobile category, and the Alfresco "Partner Solution of the Year" for osCaddie.
