Company

Layar is the world’s largest mobile augmented reality platform with more than 10M installs, 9,000 developers and 2,500 layers. Layar brings impactful augmented reality experiences into people’s everyday lives.

The Layar platform is available on Android, iPhone, Symbian and BlackBerry 7 OS devices, comes globally pre-installed on millions of phones and is promoted by leading handset manufacturers and carriers like Samsung, Verizon and Sprint.

Layar has been named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and TIME magazine, a Disruptive Innovatorat the 2010 Deloitte Fast50 awards and won the Grand Prix 2010 at Netexplorateur. 

The company is located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company was founded by Claire Boonstra, Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and Raimo van der Klein in June of 2009. Layar is VC funded and has roughly 60 employees.