Fleksy was developed by Fleksy Inc., a company founded in 2011. It was originally developed for the
blind and visually impaired to enable typing through
muscle memory. In July 2012, Fleksy became commercially available on the
iPhone as a download from
Apple's
iOS App Store. On June 15, 2016, the company moved on to
Pinterest. As of 2018, Fleksy was acquired by Spain-based digital marketing company ThingThing Ltd. In the summer of 2018, Fleksy opened a seed crowdfunding campaign on
Crowdcube. Later, in October of the same year, Fleksy partnered with Palm and was preinstalled as the default keyboard on all Palm devices. Fleksy introduced Fleksyapps "mini app programs" in early 2019. Two months later, Fleksy released its smart assistant, Fleksynext. In 2019, Fleksy became the first keyboard used for Passive
Digital Phenotyping in the Healthcare space. The next year, Fleksy would pivot its business towards a
B2B model, launching its Software Development Kit (SDK) and taking on clients in Healthcare , Productivity, Generative AI , Augmented Reality, Advertising, Banking and many more. In October 2021, Fleksy announced it had raised a
Series A from Inveready, and, in August 2022, the company launched its Developer Platform and Integration Documentation. As of February 2024, the company has begun to expand into Field Mobility (Logistics) and Cybersecurity, following a grant from Innovate UK to Combat Financial Fraud on Mobile. ==Software==