However, in an interview with the Chinese web portal, Chen did not rule out future "cooperation" between the two businesses. On April 10, 2007, TechCrunch reported that Google had invested at least US$1 million in Maxthon this was denied the following day by Chen. In 2006, Maxthon received further investment from the US-based venture capital firm Charles River Ventures. In 2005, the firm received seed funding from venture capital firm WI Harper Group and Morten Lund, the first Skype investor, and Chen moved the company to Beijing. In 1999, current CEO Ming Jie "Jeff" Chen ( Chinese: 陈明杰 pinyin: Chén Míngjié) founded Hong Kong-based Mysoft International Limited to distribute the MyIE browser.
Maxthon has also created other products including a Chinese language news and information portal i.maxthon.cn, a Chinese language casual gaming portal and humor website, a ‘ Kid Safe’ web browser for Android and iOS, a free online account system named Maxthon Passport, and an English language news and information web portal i. Most of Maxthon's engineers are based in the corporate headquarters in Beijing, which develops and maintains versions of the Maxthon browser for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.
It is headquartered in Beijing, with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and San Francisco, US. Maxthon is a Chinese company known mainly for producing web browsers for Windows.