Private company

Scalado

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Swedish software company

Scalado was a provider of imaging technologies, applications and engineering services for the camera (phone) industry. The company was a Swedish imaging software company that focused on the wireless device industry. Scalado's CAPS was embedded in more than a billion cellphone camera devices.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Scalado was a provider of imaging technologies, applications and engineering services for the camera (phone) industry.2

The story

Scalado was founded in 2000 at Ideon Science Park in Lund, Sweden by former students from Lund's University, Sami Niemi, Fadi Abbas, Maziar Jahanshahi and Pierre Elzouki (active until 2004). Scalado employed imaging specialists worldwide and was headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

The company had offices in Sweden (HQ), Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the United States.

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Products and brands

Technology

In 2010, Scalado technology was embedded in more than 930 million devices with a predicted annual growth of 500 million devices per year. Examples of its technologies was Scalado RAJpeg, Scalado SpeedTags and Scalado SpeedView.

During Blackberry World 2012 in Florida, Research in Motion revealed a demo of its upcoming new mobile os, BlackBerry 10, incorporating Scalado's time warp feature.

Products

Scalado's software offered products in capturing, viewing and editing images. Examples of some of the imaging products Scalado provided its customers with: Scalado CAPS, Scalado PhotoFlow, Scalado Rewind, Scalado TimeWarp, Scalado Camera SDK, Scalado Album SDK, and Scalado Editor SDK. In 2012, Scalado also started producing mobile apps for the consumer market.

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Timeline

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