Mendix
Mendix was founded in late 2005 by Derek Roos, Roald Kruit and Derckjan Kruit - a small team with a strong background in Business and Computer Science. Built on a combination of early academic research and personal frustration with the rigidity and complexity of traditional enterprise software, Mendix originated as a spin-off from the Technical University Delft and the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.Today, Mendix enables business change by helping companies rapidly develop, deploy and integrate business apps at a fraction of the time and cost. The Mendix platform simplifies collaboration between Business & IT, enabling business engineers and reducing IT dependency. Mendix has over 20,000-users worldwide and has been recognized by leading analyst firm Gartner as a Cool Vendor. Mendix is a global company with offices in the US, UK, the Netherlands and South Africa.