Pixate was founded in May 2012 by Paul Colton and Kevin Lindsey with the goal of enabling designers and developers alike to quickly and easily create beautiful, native mobile interfaces. Pixate was a Y-Combinator Summer 2012 participant and also raised funding through a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012. Pixate was funded by Accel Partners in July 2013, and is based out of Palo Alto, CA.