Live Typing

What Live Typing does

Live Typing Inc. is a full-cycle digital production agency founded in 2010, delivering custom mobile and web application design, development, and support services to startups, nonprofits, and enterprises across the U.S. and Russia/CIS markets. The firm operates dual delivery hubs — Moscow (with an additional office in Omsk) for its home market and Gaithersburg/Washington D.C. as its U.S. regional headquarters — supported by an agile team of approximately 50 specialists. Service offerings span native iOS and Android development, cross-platform frameworks (PhoneGap, Xamarin, Unity), hybrid HTML/CSS/JavaScript approaches, web application and API back-end development, UX research and UI prototyping, interface design, consulting and support, and dedicated team outstaffing; integration expertise covers chat (Zendesk, Intercom, Chatra, JivoChat, Smooch), payments (Stripe), and e-signature (DocuSign).

The agency's revenue model is professional-services based, with pricing varying by project scope and complexity. A productized UX research and prototyping offering uses tiered fixed-price packages — a Regular Package at $7,000 covering business analysis, personas, use cases, sitemap, and clickable prototype; a Full Package at $14,000 over 6 weeks adding user testing, UI design style, functional specification, and UI prototype source files; and a Custom Package for tailored scope. Go-to-market is direct: inbound consultation requests via the website contact form, supported by content marketing through a blog, social presence on LinkedIn/Behance/Dribbble/TikTok/GitHub, an email newsletter, and a portfolio site showcasing case studies. Distribution is consultation-based with no marketplace, reseller, or channel partner layer.

Live Typing serves a horizontally segmented customer base — no single vertical dominates — with named enterprise clients including Sephora, Samsung, PepsiCo, L'Oréal, Hasbro, Henkel, Groupon, Conde Nast, and Ferrero, alongside Russian-market clients such as Ile De Beaute, Kommersant, LIME, Zarina, and Familia. The firm has completed 200+ projects over its operating history, earned third-party recognition from Clutch (8th of 1,994 iPad app developers globally in 2018; top Russian mobile/web developer in 2017) and GoodFirms (top development company in 2017), and holds a 4.9/5 Clutch rating. Leadership comprises CEO Aleksandr/Alexander Kuznetsov, COO Vlad Korobov, CTO Denis Vizigin, and CMO Eugene Boychenko. The company is privately held with no disclosed external funding, M&A activity, or parent organization in the available data.

Name

Live Typing

Legal name

Live Typing Inc.

Website

https://livetyping.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Live Typing is a 50-person full-cycle digital production agency with offices in Gaithersburg/Washington D.C. and Moscow, designing and developing native and cross-platform mobile apps, web applications, and UX prototypes for startups, nonprofits, and global enterprise clients such as Sephora, Samsung, PepsiCo, L'Oréal, Groupon, and Hasbro.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Gaithersburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Mobile App Development Services: Custom mobile app development for iOS and Android platforms, including design, development, and support services

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Live Typing is a full-cycle digital production agency that designs, develops, and supports custom mobile and web applications for startups, nonprofits, and enterprises. Its core offerings include native and cross-platform iOS and Android app development, web application and API backend development, UX analytics and UI prototyping, interface design, consulting and support, and dedicated team outstaffing services.

Product overview

Live Typing is a full-cycle digital production agency providing custom software development services rather than a product company with a unified platform. Their service portfolio consists of six core offerings: native and cross-platform mobile app development for iOS and Android, web application and API backend development, UX analytics and UI prototyping, web and mobile interface design, consulting and support, and dedicated team outstaffing services. They also offer specialized UX research and prototype services with tiered pricing packages. The company operates as a custom development firm with no packaged software products or APIs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Native and Cross-Platform Mobile App Development Custom native and cross-platform mobile application development services for iOS and Android, covering the full development lifecycle from design through deployment, delivered as project-based engagements for startups, nonprofits, and enterprises.
• Web Application and API (Back-end) Development Web application development and API/backend development services for creating server-side infrastructure and web platforms, delivered as project-based engagements for enterprise and startup clients.
• UX Analytics and UI Prototyping User experience research, analytics, and interactive prototype creation services that validate product concepts before full development, delivered as standalone engagements or as part of broader development projects.
• Web and Mobile Interface Design Interface design services for web and mobile applications, creating user-friendly visual designs as a standalone service or as part of broader development engagements.
• Consulting and Support Technical consulting and ongoing support services for mobile and web application projects, provided as a standalone advisory engagement or as post-launch maintenance for development clients.
• Dedicated Teams (Outstaffing) Dedicated development teams provided for client projects, offering flexible staffing solutions that augment client engineering capacity on a multi-month or multi-year basis.
• User Experience Research and Prototype Service Standalone UX research and high-fidelity interactive prototyping service with tiered pricing packages starting at $7,000 for Regular, $14,000 for Full, and custom pricing for the Custom tier, including business analysis, product strategy, MVP definition, personas, use case diagrams, sitemaps, and clickable prototypes.

Quantifiable outcome

• 200+ projects completed successfully over 7 years
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Yalantis: Yalantis is a Ukraine-based custom software and mobile app development agency serving enterprise clients globally, with a similar full-cycle service offering (design, mobile, web, dedicated teams) and comparable headcount range to Live Typing.
• Cleveroad: Cleveroad is a mid-sized Eastern European software development agency providing native and cross-platform mobile app development, web development, UX/UI design, and dedicated teams — directly overlapping Live Typing's core service lines and customer segments (startups to enterprises).
• Surf: Surf is a digital agency specializing in mobile and web app design and development with offices in the US and Eastern Europe, comparable to Live Typing in offering full-cycle production with a focus on cross-platform technologies and enterprise clients.
• Orangesoft: Orangesoft is a mobile app development company delivering native iOS/Android, cross-platform, and web solutions for startups and enterprises, with overlapping service offerings, similar agency model, and comparable award-driven marketing.
• Intellectsoft: Intellectsoft is a digital transformation and software engineering company offering mobile app development, custom software, and dedicated development teams to enterprise clients across multiple industries — a close peer in service breadth and target customer profile.
• ScienceSoft: ScienceSoft is a custom software development and IT consulting company providing mobile, web, and enterprise software services with a comparable mid-size team serving global enterprise clients across verticals.

Broad incumbents

• WillowTree: WillowTree is a larger US-based digital product agency specializing in mobile and web app development for Fortune 500 clients; it competes for the same enterprise engagements as Live Typing but with significantly greater scale and brand recognition.
• Itransition: Itransition is a large custom software development company offering mobile, web, and enterprise application development with global delivery centers, competing in the same digital agency space as Live Typing but with broader service portfolio and larger headcount.
• BairesDev: BairesDev is a large-scale software outsourcing and nearshoring company providing dedicated development teams and custom software services to enterprise clients globally, competing on the dedicated-team / outstaffing model that Live Typing also offers.

Emerging players

• Inoxoft: Inoxoft is a mid-sized custom software development agency offering web and mobile app development, UX/UI design, and dedicated teams — a closely comparable emerging peer with overlapping service portfolio and similar mid-market positioning.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/livetyping
• GitHubgithub.com/LiveTyping
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/1841197
• Facebookfacebook.com/livetyping

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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