Today we are announcing the $1M Series A funding, led by LETA Capital. TMT Investments, which made a seed investment into the company in 2011, is also participating in this round. rollApp plans to use Round A funding to transit out of beta stage of development to widespread adoption, add support to more devices/platforms, and start monetizing the service.

“Technology developed by rollApp eliminates the need to re-work existing software products every time when a new platform enters the market.” said Vlad Pavlov, rollApp founder and CEO. “There is no need to change existing apps to make it possible to use them on new devices. And there is no need to develop new software to work with existing files from the new devices. We have published a critical mass of apps on our platform, so our customers can use rollApp to view and edit virtually any file: documents, spreadsheets, pictures, e-books, archives, mind-maps, etc. In one click, inside a browser, from almost any device, with no downloads/installs.”

“We are confident in the success of the rollApp story.”  said Alexander Chachava, Managing Partner of LETA Capital, who will be joining the rollApp Board of Directors. “RollApp has a very ambitious management team. They were lucky enough to attract some of the best experts on the planet to join the rollApp crew. The company has a very precise and clear strategy. Most importantly, rollApp solves the problem of working with different platforms. A user must always have an option of working with any program or document regardless of the device being used. rollApp seamlessly resolves this issue.”

Applications on rollApp are now a few clicks closer: starting today “test drive” any application without registering and logging in!


In test drive all the functions and features of the applications are available for you to try. However, during test drive you can not access your Dropbox, Google Drive or other supported cloud storage to open or save files. You will still need to register and sign in to connect cloud storage and save your work.


Luckily, you can do that at any time during your test drive and then continue working with the app with no limits.

Also, rollApp File Opener - plugin for Google Chrome and Firefox - which allows to instantly open almost any file you can encounter on the Web, now lets you open files without registration.

Cloud services are on the rise and so are devices that let you take most out of those services. In that cohort devices based on Chrome OS are special - they are pure cloud clients. In recent months we’ve seen over twofold increase of the number of users who visit rollapp.com from Chromebooks. With Samsung’s Chromebook being #1 best selling laptop on Amazon and major computer manufacturers reportedly joining the club we expect this trend to become even stronger.

To support Chromebook users we made OpenOffice applications available as web apps in Chrome Web Store as a part of our Productivity Suite for Chrome. You can install them right into your browser and they will be only one click away, when you need to add a pivot table to your quarter sales report or add animation effects to your presentation.


It also works with Chrome on you PC or Mac:


Now we have four Apache OpenOffice apps: Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw, and vector drawing program Inkscape available in the Chrome Web Store. Check back soon to try new apps we will be adding!

Several months ago we made Open Office on iPad available and it was very enthusiastically accepted: during the last 5 months our traffic increased 25 fold. We hope that offering Apache Open Office and other applications for Chrome and Chrome OS will greatly benefit our users.

Application experience depends on the capabilities of the device you are using, your location and latency of the connection between you and rollApp cloud servers.