Volantis was founded by Jennifer Bursack, Martin Gaffney, Brett Nulf, and Mark Watson, who had all worked together at Tivoli Systems (a subsidiary of IBM) in the UK.
In March 2000 the four founders resigned from IBM and approached investors under the name Unwired Ltd.[4] The company name was changed, a few months later, to Volantis Systems Ltd. – the taking its name from the constellation Volans.
[citation needed] The company grew quickly until the collapse of the Internet bubble and the events of 11 September 2001 forced Volantis to downsize and consolidate.
[8] In 2010, Volantis was selected as a Distinguished Honoree in the Telecoms category at the Stevie Awards for international business achievement in recognition of their mobile self-care solution.
[9] Volantis released a Java-based open source framework for web applications building by mobile developers in early 2008.