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Igalia

Logo: Igalia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Spanish software consulting company

Igalia is a private, worker-owned, employee-run cooperative model consultancy focused on open source software. Based in A Coruña, Galicia (Spain), Igalia is known for its contributions and commitments to both open-source and open standards. Igalia's primary focus is on open source solutions for a large set of hardware and software platforms centering on browsers, graphics, multimedia, compilers, virtualization, embedded Linux, and device drivers.2 Its products include Wayland, WebKit and GStreamer.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Sep 2001Founded1
  • Industrysoftware development1
  • HeadquartersA Coruña1
  • Websitewww.igalia.com
  • Legal formlimited company1
  • LEI959800201400059351223
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressCalle José Luis Bugallal Marchesi 22 1º, 15008 Coruña, A, Spain3
  • Registered withRegistrars of Spain, 10000708184413

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Igalia is a private, worker-owned, employee-run cooperative model consultancy focused on open source software. Based in A Coruña, Galicia (Spain), Igalia is known for its contributions and commitments to both open-source and open standards. Igalia's primary focus is on open source solutions for a large set of hardware and software platforms centering on browsers, graphics, multimedia, compilers, virtualization, embedded Linux, and device drivers.2

The story

History

Igalia is a Spanish software consultancy.

In February 2023, Mozilla began directing the users of its VR web browser, Firefox Reality, to use Igalia's then upcoming open source browser Wolvic instead. While Firefox Reality was being shut down, Wolvic is based on Firefox Reality's source code. Initially, the Wolvic browser was set to run on Oculus, HTC Vive Focus, Pico Interactive, Daydream, Huawei VR Glasses and open source Lynx devices. It launched later in the month as a beta. Igalia said it had secured partial funding to work on the browser project for two years.

In September 2023, it was announced that Valve Software and Igalia were partnering on the Linux-based OS of the Steam Deck handheld games console. The Steam OS 3.0 used Arch Linux instead of Debian. Noted The Register about the partnership, "Valve is a highly atypical company; its uniquely flat management structure is even the subject of academic study. Igalia, too, is a flat, worker-owned cooperative. "

Past projects and historical involvement

Igalia was previously significantly involved in:

Maemo and MeeGo. Igalia developers authored Grilo (a framework for the access to multimedia sources like YouTube, Flickr, Jamendo, and others), and managed LibrePlan (a project management web application), OCRFeeder (an OCR suite for GNOME) and Skeltrack (a Free Software library for skeleton tracking from depth images).

From Wikipedia’s article on Igalia, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Products and brands

  • GStreamer
  • Wayland
  • WebKit

Listed on Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Sep 2001Founded Founded1

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