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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education technology |
| Founded | January 2011 in New York, USA |
| Founder | Jonathan Hefter |
| Defunct | December 16, 2020 |
| Fate | Acquired by Google |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | CloudReady |
| Owner | Google (100%) |
| Parent | |
| Website | www |
Neverware Inc was a New York–based technology company and a subsidiary of Google.
It was the developer of CloudReady, a distribution of Google's ChromiumOS designed to be installed on existing computers (as opposed to Google's commercial version, ChromeOS, which is sold primarily as pre-loaded software on netbooks). Neverware marketed CloudReady as a means to reuse older computers (particularly at schools), thus reducing electronic waste.
Although the company began with an exclusive focus on the US K-12 education sector, it announced in October 2017 its intention to use its Series B funding from Google to further expand into the enterprise market.[1] On December 16, 2020, Neverware announced that it had been acquired by Google.