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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | Sofia, Bulgaria (2002) |
| Industry | UI components and solutions for .NET, Web Content Management Solutions, Web Testing Tools |
| Products | RadControls for ASP.NET, RadControls for WinForms, RadControls for WPF, RadControls for Silverlight, Reporting, Sitefinity CMS, OpenAccess ORM, WebUI Web Testing Tools, ASP.NET MVC Extensions, JustCode Code Refactoring Tools |
| Employees | over 160 |
| Website | www.telerik.com |
Telerik is a software publisher of ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Forms, Silverlight, and WPF controls and components, as well as .NET ORM, CMS, ASP.NET MVC, web testing, code analysis and refactoring, and reporting tools.
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History
The company started in 2002 and released in the same year "RadEditor" and "RadMenu," the first two products in its "RadControls for ASP.NET." line of Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. During the next 6 years, the suite grew to over 30 ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX components. Telerik also offers desktop components (WPF and WinForms), a reporting tool, a CMS solution, an ORM, extensions for ASP.NET MVC, testing software, and most recently a software refactoring tool named JustCode, which they launched at Microsoft's 2009 Professional Developers Conference.
Company Information
Currently Telerik employs over 160 people. The company is headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria and also has offices in Waltham, MA and Houston, TX and Munich, Germany.
The name Telerik comes from a Bulgarian khan - Telerig, who ruled Bulgaria in very troubled times, shortly after the country was established as such (681 AD). The company changed the last letter of Telerig's name so that it sounds better in English.
There are two ways to pronounce Telerik, and both are correct. The Bulgarian pronunciation is te-le-'rik whereas the American is te-'le-rik.
In 2008, Telerik was named by Hewitt Associates as the 3rd best employer (after Microsoft and 3M) for small and medium scale companies in Central Eastern Europe [1]
In the News
On September 3, 2008 Telerik announced that it had received an investment from Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm. [2]
On Oct 10th, 2008 Telerik announced that it had acquired Vanatec, a German company specialized in Object Relational Mapping (ORM) software. Telerik currently offers its own ORM called OpenAccess as a standalone product, as part of the "Telerik Premium Collection", and as a free Express version. [3]
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