Igalia history | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Igalia was founded in September 2001 in A Coruña, Spain, by a group of ten young software professionals. They were inspired by their experience in free software, and shared the goal of creating a free software company based on cooperation, innovation, and shared responsibility.

During Igalia’s first years, it became an active contributor to the GNOME ecosystem, and started doing R&D activities. In 2003, Igalia released Fisterra, an open source ERP solution built with GNOME technology. As a result, Igalia received a prize recognizing it as the most innovative company in Galicia, the region of Spain in which Igalia is based.

From 2005-2010, Igalia’s involvement in GNOME, Freedesktop.org, and related communities continually increased. In 2005, when mobile platforms like Maemo, Moblin, and LiMo adopted GNOME technology, Igalia became an important contributor to several key projects, including Linux, GNOME, Freedesktop.org, Qt, and WebKit.

Since 2010, Igalia has become the world’s leading web engines consultancy, and has been a top contributor to the WebKit and Chromium projects. Thanks to our excellent work, Igalia has since been accepted as a member of associations including the W3C, GENIVI, Automotive Grade Linux, the Khronos Group, and ECMA International.

Igalia is a global company, working with customers all over the world. Our team spans timezones and cultures, with employees based in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Continuing to fulfill its founding vision, Igalia maintains a constant and relevant presence in many upstream projects, such as WebKit, Chromium, Mesa 3D, GStreamer, and Servo, just to name a few.

2023
- - Igalia joins Servo TSC, re-ignites its development.
  - Igalia increases its contributions to LLVM through its investment in RISC-V and in WebAssembly support.
2022
- - Igalia takes over stewardship of the Firefox Reality browser, creating Wolvic XR.
  - Igalia helps ship :has() pseudo selector, which had been blocked since ‘98.
2021
- - Igalia develops first collectively funded Web Platform features, shows experimental WPE for Android and helps create Epiphany Canary.
  - Igalia joins with Microsoft Edge, Google, Coil and others in creating a new initiative called Open Web Docs to establish collective funding for web platform documentation on MDN.
2020
- - Igalia joins MDN Product Advisory Board, begins the Igalia Chats podcast, and achieves conformance for Open Source Vulkan drivers for the Raspberry Pi.
  - Igalia is the # 2 contributor to both WebKit and Chromium Projects, as well as in the top 10 contributors in Firefox/Gecko for 3 consecutive years.
2019
- - Igalia is a top contributor in all three browser engines for consecutive years, develops MathML-Core prototype in Chromium downstream and works to create a proposal to align MathML with the rest of the platform.
  - Igalia becomes a key actor of the GStreamer framework development maintaining important components such as the GStreamer Editing Services.
  - An Igalian becomes a co-editor of the CSS Grid specification.
2018
- - Igalia announces the first official release of WPE WebKit.
  - Igalia’s contributions help the Intel Mesa driver for Linux to officially conform with the Kronos Groups’ new OpenGL 4.6 Adopters Program, helping them win the race to new certifications.
  - Igalia celebrates a decade of collaboration with NGOs contributing 0.7% of our revenue to NGOs chosen by Igalians.
2017
- - Igalia begins to co-chair the W3C’s ARIA working group and the ECMA JavaScript TC39 group.
  - Igalia’s work on CSS Grid Layout is publicly released in stable Chrome and Safari releases.
2016
- - Igalia becomes a member of the Khronos Group, the standards organization where most graphics standards are set and conformance suites defined.
  - Igalia announces the development of WPE
2015
- - Igalia releases the precursor of WPE as well as a lightweight WebKit port based on Wayland, avoiding the use of traditional GUI toolkits.
2014
- - Igalia becomes a leading contributor to Mesa 3D.
  - Igalia hosts the first Web Engines Hackfest, one of the most notable cross-browser web platform events focused on implementation.
2013
- - Igalia joins W3C, GENIVI, Automotive Grade Linux, and the Tizen Association.
2012
- - Igalia increases contributions to Chromium, V8, and GStreamer.
2011
- - Igalia is awarded a prize for the best workplace in the region.
  - Igalia celebrates 10 years of continuous organic growth.
2010
- - Igalia becomes member of the Linux Foundation and a patron of the Free Software Foundation.
2009
- - Igalia moves in to its brand-new headquarters in A Coruña.
2008
- - Igalia takes the first steps to consolidate itself as the leading WebKit consultancy.
2007
- - Igalia joins the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board.
2006
- - The Master of Free Software degree, organized by Igalia, is offered for the first time at the University of A Coruña.
2005
- - Igalia gets involved in the Maemo platform (and later in Moblin, MeeGo and Tizen).
2004
- - Igalia celebrates the anniversary of Fisterra release, an open source ERP solution based on GNOME technologies.
2003
- - Igalia is awarded with a prize to the most innovative company of the region.
2002
- - Igalia becomes an active contributor to the GNOME ecosystem and starts R&D activities.
2001
- - Igalia is founded with two main goals: open innovation and FLOSS development.