Appscend is a Romanian performance-oriented mobile application platform. Appscend provides rapid multiplatform app development, app deployment and lifecycle management, mobile app marketing tools, industry solutions and professional services. Appscend can integrate third party services such as YouTube, Picasa, Google Maps and Facebook. The platform offers a combination with analytics services such as Flurry, Google Analytics and the capability of importing sales and ratings data from individual iTunes Connect accounts. Appscend also offers an amazon web services cloud-based CMS, to monetize options and in-app social monitoring tools. Up to date, Appscend has approximately 550,000 users, 2500 customers, 300 published apps in the Apple App Store and 3500 applications in development. Appscend was chosen as a finalist in Intel’s 2012 International Business Challenge and it exhibits an app platform at Mobile World Congress 2012. Appscend was founded by Andrei Marinescu, Gabriel Dobocan and Sebastian Vaduva and it was launched in Bucharest, Romania.