The Company

Founded in 2007, Kynetx is a private company that provides the first Context Automation Development Platform. This platform, powered by Kynetx Network Services (KNS), provides easy-to-use development tools to create context-sensitive, cross-platform apps that help build relationships between app owners and users.

Kynetx Apps help increase critical KPIs by offering enhanced experiences in the user environment. Kynetx Apps can stretch across the web, phones, desktop software, and even a brick and mortar world, all in the “context” of the user, making interactions more relevant to the user and more effective for the App owner.

The Founders & The History

The founders of Kynetx, Phil Windley and Stephen Fulling, have an extensive background in creating companies that create and/or shape entire categories of new technology. The creators of iMall, the first eCommerce platform for small to medium-sized merchants, Steve and Phil grew and sold the company to Excite@home for $450 million in 1999.

Phil and Steve came back together to create Kynetx in 2007. They sold their airplane (a Turbo Piper Arrow) to create the company that is designed to revolutionize how user context is used and responded to, both on and off the web. The founders received the first round of angel funding in Spring 2009 and began growing the business with the first round of customers and employees.

The Kynetx development platform opened to the public in July of 2009 with the launch of AppBuilder, a development tool for creating Kynetx apps quickly and easily. Another major milestone occurred in October 2009 when $1.3 billion company Axciom made a strategic investment in Kynetx of $2 million. Kynetx also held their first Impact developer’s conference in Fall of 2009 for a sold-out crowd. Kynetx continues to grow as they offer a new breed of technology that reshapes how people interact with and experience their web-enabled environment.

Distribution Channels

Kynetx distributes their services through major partners, value-added resellers and individual developers, all using the patent-pending Kynetx technology to create new context-sensitive apps that stretch across the web and onto any web-enabled device.