Customers
Avantica Technologies builds lasting partnerships with both established and start-up software companies based on quality software engineering delivered with a Nearshore advantage. Our architects, developers and testers are in your time-zone. The Avantica Customer Model is software engineering specialization across the product development lifecycle, distributed Agile, English language, and rapid access to additional engineering team-members who immediately extend your internal team.
Avantica’s customers include innovative start-ups funded by Accel Partners, Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Austin Ventures and other leading VCs and private equity firms. Avantica collaborates closely with customers to help launch and extend their Mobile, Cloud, Analytic, Search, Social Networking and Enterprise Web apps.
Customer satisfaction drives Avantica’s quality software engineering. Read what some of our customers are saying about their partnership with Avantica:
(EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE APP.)
Measured Progress is an industry leader in the development of customized, K-12 student assessments for schools, districts, and states.
“Avantica’s talented software test engineers, located in our time-zone from Latin America, integrated quickly and easily into our internal development team. This collaboration is directed toward improving our product testing approach and increasing quality. The results have been outstanding – Avantica’s engineers have been able to more aggressively identify pre-production defects. The result is higher quality with our production product release. Several contributing factors include their skills, ability to absorb domain knowledge quickly, flexibility and overall work ethic.”
--QA Director, Measured Progress

(DIRECT MARKETING APP.)
VerticalResponse, Inc. is a leading provider of self-service email marketing, survey and direct mail services empowering small businesses and non-profit organizations to create, manage and analyze their own direct marketing campaigns. VerticalResponse allows customers to deliver sophisticated yet easily deployed marketing campaigns using an intuitive and affordable Web-based solution.
"Working with Avantica has gone above and beyond an outsourced development vendor / client relationship. The developers and QA we work with are deeply embedded and truly part of our team, contributing to our success and productivity every day. Avantica's engineers are quick to ramp up and a perfect cultural fit with our US-based team. Even cross-continental pair programming has proven to be a big success!"
-- CEO, VerticalResponse
(CLOUD APP.)
Electric Cloud is the private development cloud company. We bridge the gap between physical and virtual IT environments, development processes and tools to create smart development clouds.
"Avantica is a trusted extension of our development team. Their skilled engineers have developed important parts of our product set and they have exceeded our expectations for quality and schedule. The best way to describe the relationship is Pura Vida."
-- VP Engineering, Electric Cloud
(FINANCIAL APP.)
ExpensAble is the most trusted name in Expense Management focused on delivering effective, scalable solutions for a wide variety of company types. Our web based and desktop products address the key challenges associated with expense management.
"Avantica's end-to-end services keep me competitive and allow me to focus on making my company a success".
-- VP of Solution Development, ExpensAble
(MOBILE APP.)
Rover Apps provides ISVs, enterprise IT and System Integrators the platform they need to rapidly develop and deliver secure mobile solutions.
"Avantica Technologies’ ability to quickly scale an experienced Android development team to work collaboratively with our in-house engineering team was impressive. Together, the integrated engineering team is focused on extending the same native mobile interface, communications, centralized management, data security and high-end performance Rover currently delivers for iPhone, iPad and Blackberry users to the Android user community.”
-- CEO, Rover Apps
(MOBILE APP.)
NAVSAT is Costa Rica's leading location based services company. Our company enables GPS technology to deliver solutions to everyday problems. We provide mapping, navigation, and tracking products to thousands of customers in the business and consumer markets.
"I have known Mario and Luis Carlos Chaves for years, but is wasn’t until about 3 years ago that we started an intense working relationship. Avantica has developed pretty much all of our tracking software. Through all our years of working together they have always been very serious, transparent and reliable. I really like doing business with them, what you see is what you get."
-- CEO, NavSat
(CONSUMER WEB APP.)
Krome Photos is a new and unique web service for photographers who love to take photos, but don’t want to spend the time and trouble processing their photos on the computer. Krome takes care of all your photo processing so you can easily find and share the best ones with your friends and family.
"I am really proud of the work you have done! The system looks great, the service is working very well for our test customers. You did what we specified and you did it on time and in budget!: I appreciate the long days and hard work you have put into Krome, it shows!"
-- CEO, Krome Photos
(ENTERPRISE WEB APP.)
GuideSpark provides comprehensive on demand financial wellness solutions for corporations and organizations.
"Avantica was an ideal development partner. Their range of services, extensive experience was instrumental in allowing us to get to market quickly and cost effectively."
-- CEO, GuideSpark
(TEST AUTOMATION APP.)
PushToTest is an Open Source Test (OST) company that provides test automation tools and services to medium and large organizations. Organizations apply PushToTest expert resources to work directly with their software developers and testers to find and solve functional, scalability, and operations center monitoring rapidly. The result is a compelling combination of test automation services and technology.
"We leverage Avantica team expertise at Web application, Rich Internet Application (RIA,) and Business Process Management (BPM) to help PushToTest customers surface and mitigate functional issues, performance bottlenecks and operational problems. When PushToTest delivers Open Source Testing to our customers including Ford, PepsiCo, Deloitte, and Kaplan, we depend on Avantica."
-- CEO and Founder, PushToTest.com
(RETAIL APP.)
StoreXperience is a privately held company founded in 2007. The company is incorporated in the state of Delaware and headquartered in Berkeley, CA. The company is a member of the Microsoft Start-up Accelerator Program, and the PICOM (the European Retail Industry Cluster). It launched its initial product offering at the annual convention of the National Retail Federation in the first quarter of 2008.
"Working with Avantica Technologies was a truly gratifying experience. All the professionals we had a chance to work with demonstrated advanced technological knowledge, robust capabilities, and remarkable work ethics. Avantica demonstrated that working with Costa Rica is a very attractive option for American companies looking for quality developments, under a tight schedule and expecting great value for money."
-- President, StoreXperience.
(SOCIAL NETWORKING APP.)
Link Silicon Valley is an online networking resource for researching, identifying and contacting companies and people in the SF Bay Area technology community. The LinkSV database has more than 11,100 companies comprised of IPO companies, startups, acquired or liquidated companies, and VC firms.
"Avantica has done an incredible job developing and supporting LinkSV since inception. They are a great development partner I can really count on and I highly recommend them to others. More recently they built a mobile application for us from the ground up in a very efficient manner."
-- CEO & Publisher LinkSV
Indeed is the #1 job site worldwide, with over 50 million unique visitors and 1 billion job searches per month. Indeed is available in more than 50 countries and 26 languages, covering 94% of global GDP.
“Everything with Avantica Technologies has been great! The guys are doing exactly what we need them to and are quick to learn new things”
-- Operations Manager, Indeed.com
Brightstorm is an online learning network for teens, teachers and parents. The company was founded with the belief that great learning starts with great teaching. Brightstorm wants to give every student the opportunity to learn from the world's best teachers.
"Avantica was instrumental in Brightstorm's successful launch in October, 2008."
-- CEO, Brightstorm
(ENTERPRISE WEB APP.)
SkillSlate empowers the 16mm+ individual service providers in the US to market their services directly to consumers. A SkillSlate profile provides detailed professional and personal information including pictures, fees, and reviews, all with the aim of not only showing what the person does, but who the person is. SkillSlate puts these profiles together into a searchable, sortable directory where consumers can find service providers that fit their specific needs.
"Avantica played a key role in laying the foundations of SkillSlate's product, which led to a round of venture capital funding. Their team is smart, skilled, and were vital to SkillSlate's success at its early stages."
-- Co-Founder, SkillSlate
(FINANCIAL APP.)
On Deck capital is a New York based financial institution that helps small businesses get access to necessary capital, which should improve their payment behaviors and credit scores so they may someday qualify for a traditional loan. Employing a patent-pending proprietary loan platform, On Deck Capital has provided over $41,000,000 in loans to date.
(Analytics app)
Smart Solutions is an innovative and practical source of search engine optimization, web and software development solutions. As a Microsoft Certified Partner since 1995 and a certified Bruce Clay SEO Toolset Organization, our talented staff is experienced in developing solutions for online marketing and content management. Located in Bend, Oregon, Smart Solutions works with our clients to: design, develop, and optimize their web site to build traffic and high conversions. Combined with our customer service, our clients receive expert services and ongoing support to guide their success online.
CAFSA is an organized public corporation in accordance with the Costa Rican laws. It was constituted as a non-banking financial institution on June 14th, 1982. It is regulated by the organic law of the National Banking System, the organic law of the Costa Rican Central Bank and SUGEF (General Superintendent of Financial Institutions, for its name in Spanish).























