Grapple Acquires Museum Tour and Publishing App Company Toura

Mobile development agency Grapple has acquired Toura, the cloud-based content distribution platform whose clients include the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Guggenheim, among others. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Mobile development agency Grapple has acquired Toura, the cloud-based content distribution platform whose clients include the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Guggenheim, among others. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Toura co-founders Aaron Radin and Sayoko Knight Teitelbaum revolutionized museum tours in 2009 with the Mobile App Producer (MAP): a browser-based publishing platform that allowed museum administrators to create walking tour maps for visitors to use on their own hand-held devices.

Since then, Toura has expanded into media and publishing, creating mobile and tablet apps for companies like ABC Television, Reader’s Digest, Boston Globe, and Tribune Interactive.

The company has put $3.8

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