Contract manufacturing giant Foxconn has invested in Cyanogen as part of the Android OS maker’s $80 million Series C investment round.
The companies disclosed the investment today. Foxconn joins investors including Premji Invest, Twitter Ventures, Qualcomm, and Rupert Murdoch in the investment round. Cyanogen, which has offices in Seattle and Palo Alto, Calif., says it has raised a total of $110 million in funding.
“Foxconn and our diverse group of strategic investors and partners reflect the mobile value chain, from device manufacturers and mobile network operators to chipset makers and 3rd party developers,” said Cyanogen CEO Kirt McMaster in a statement. “They see the great potential of what we’re doing in creating the next major paradigm shift in mobile computing.”
Cyanogen, which was named “Next Tech Titan” in last week’s GeekWire Awards, develops an alternative version of Android for smartphones. An outgrowth of the popular CyanogenMod open-source project, Cyanogen has been inking key partnerships in recent months with companies including Qualcomm, Alcatel, and Microsoft.
“I hope by this time next year, all of you are carrying one of our phones,” co-founder Steve Kondik said after accepting the GeekWire Award last week.
