ActiveState

ActiveState Software Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer software
Founded1997
Headquarters,
Area served
Global
Key people
Stephen Baker (CEO)
ProductsActiveState Platform, ActivePerl, ActivePython, ActiveTcl, Komodo IDE
Number of employees
>60
Websiteactivestate.com

ActiveState Software Inc is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It develops, sells, and supports cross-platform development tools and secure software supply chain solutions for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl, as well as enterprise services.

ActiveState is owned by its employees and Vertu Capital, a growth equity firm based in Ontario, Canada[1] after briefly being a member of the Sophos group.[2]

  1. ^ "Vertu Capital Acquires Secure Open Source Integration Platform Company, ActiveState". November 7, 2023.
  2. ^ Bennett, Amy (September 24, 2003). "Sophos buys antispam vendor ActiveState for $23M". Computerworld. Retrieved June 10, 2022.[permanent dead link]