Functor Consulting

About

The consultancy branch of Functor Group AB — offering spear-edge Scala developers ready for the most demanding projects in Scandinavia.

Story

Functor was founded in 2011 and is a research spin-off from Uppsala University, Sweden, and University of Cambridge, UK. Based on vast international research, Functor offers new ground-breaking software development tools for static analysis of programs that eliminate defects and bugs in software. One particularly important market segment is that of embedded and safety-critical software although our customers are also in the general market of software development. We have partnered with two leading consultancy companies in Sweden, the CCFE JET fusion reactor outside Oxford and several other companies, government institutes, incubators, universities, and research institutes.

Our products are made in Sweden. In fact, our research footing, the basis for our entire core technology, is based on over four decades of world-leading Swedish research, with important international contributions, applied research and significant R&D in academia and at Functor unleashing this research in entirely ground-breaking new product offerings.

Functor’s mission is to introduce new tools and even a new programming paradigm based on new research results. The research in question has a very solid mathematical foundation and goes back several decades. Functor AB is the first company to leverage this research and offer it to the software industry world-wide.

Beyond this, Functor AB intends to be a world-leader in advanced software development in the next decade. Our technological founding and our devotion to recruiting only the absolutely most talented developers in the world serves this purpose.

Functor AB embraces existing tools and does not position itself as a competitor to e.g. existing methods, existing powerful static analysis tools and certainly not software testing tools and consultancy. However, Functor AB is regarded to offer complementary technology that can have striking impact on several aspects of software development. Functor AB founds a new development method on its own technology which has many advantages and is derived from other state-of-the-art methods which do not have a technological foundation to stand on. The foundation of the method offered by Functor is based on decades of research in mathematics and programming, and therefore it is furthermore a very solid foundation for software development, to serve the future demands on productivity, software quality and computational efficiency.