Wireless/Mobile Startups

Aerohive Networks is pioneering a next-generation enterprise wireless LAN architecture. Aerohive's cooperative control wireless LAN architecture eliminates wireless LAN controllers, providing all the management, mobility, and security of controller-based architectures without the cost, capacity, performance and availability issues associated with controller deployments. In addition, Aerohive solutions provide the reliability and scalability necessary for mission-critical networks and are optimized for voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN) applications.

Pixtronix is an emerging display company developing portable display technology optimized specifically for mobile multimedia devices. The Pixtronix mission is to develop, manufacture, and market the world’s highest optical performance, lowest power consumption display modules.

ZeroG Wireless was founded based on the belief that a new paradigm of wireless connectivity is upon us. We envision a 4th Age of Wireless™ — the Internet of Things. Trends such as pervasive deployment of wireless infrastructure and the demand for portability, coupled with cost reductions in computing and storage all point towards a world requiring a new connectivity solution, one enabling a mass market for connected wireless nodes. ZeroG develops technology that meets the needs of a 4th Age of Wireless through development of extremely low-power mixed-signal ICs.

Paratek designs and manufactures adaptive RF front-end component solutions for mobile wireless applications. Paratek's product offerings for multi-mode and multi-band operation cover three major applications: * Adaptive Impedance Matching Modules (AIMM) * Broadband filters and pre-selectors for RF front-end devices * Radio Antenna Frequency Tuners (RAFT™)

Founded in 1995, Crossbow Technology, Inc. is the leading end-to-end solutions supplier in wireless sensor networks and inertial sensor systems. Crossbow is leading the revolution for connecting the physical world with the digital world through wireless sensor networks as well as the use of MEMS technology in avionics, land and marine vehicle navigation.

Extreme Networks addresses a wide range of customers with wired and wireless network infrastructures. From corporate enterprises such as manufacturers, retailers, financial institutions, utilities and healthcare organizations, to large universities and K-12 school districts to federal and local governments worldwide.

Exalt Communications is the leading provider of, next-generation wireless backhaul systems that uniquely address current infrastructure bottlenecks and future capacity needs of service providers and enterprises worldwide.

Avaak Inc. develops and builds revolutionary ultra-low power integrated wireless video sensor platforms that utilize digital imaging and other sensors to provide low-cost, rapidly deployable real-time video networks. The Avaak Vision Network™, with battery-powered video cameras smaller than 1 cubic inch in size, is the only full-mesh video imaging network that can cost-effectively make pixels everywhere available for security, monitoring, automation and detection applications for consumer, commercial, defense and homeland security customers.

Visage Mobile is the first company to offer a turnkey technology and services platform for developing Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) in the United States. MVNOs, new to the US wireless market, are enterprises that leverage a strong consumer brand to create a differentiated wireless services offering. Visage Mobile offers a turnkey "MVNO-in-a-box" technology and services platform that allows a carrier to host multiple MVNOs with a single integration effort, and allows the MVNO to outsource the costs and complexities of operating a wireless service company. Visage Mobile was founded in the spring of 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

RipCode is an IP video equipment manufacturer that develops products to accelerate the transformation of video and audio content for Mobile TV, social networking video, and studio-based productions. The company is focused on eliminating the physical barriers now restricting content from being viewed on multiple viewing mediums. The payoff to the viewer is the expansion of content choices, instantaneous and inexpensive access to content, and the abstraction of content across any type of viewing device.