Ember Corporation won “top innovator” honors at the prestigious Under The Radar conference held Jan. 13 in Mountain View, Calif., Ember announed today. A panel of judges chose Ember from four other companies that were invited to speak. The judges were attracted by CTO Rob Poor’s description of Ember’s embedded wireless frequency (RF) technology as the foundation for a variety of applications ranging from building automation to utility metering.
Under The Radar hosts venture capital companies and anyone interested in tracking new markets and startup companies. The most recent event focused on radio frequency identification and related technologies. Poor and the other participants had five minutes to make their case to the audience and the judges. The judges singled out Poor’s presentation because Ember “represented an extremely large opportunity with a non-traditional model.” The judges included: Raj Atluru, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Evangelous Smioudis, a partner at Apax Partners; Glenn B. Solomon, general partner at Partach International; and Robin Vasan, managing director of Mayfield. The panel was moderated by Under the Radar organizer and AlwaysOn.com columnist Rafe Needleman.
About Ember Corporation
Ember removes the barriers to embedded networking. Ember’s self-organizing, self-healing, wireless mesh technology is uncompromisingly robust, easy to use, and flexible. The EmberNet networking platform gives forward-thinking companies the means to create products that do more by communicating better. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Ember Corporation is a privately held company with investments from Polaris Venture Partners, GrandBanks Capital, Dr. Robert Metcalfe, DFJ New England, Stata Venture Partners, RRE Ventures and DFJ ePlanet and is focused on enhancing sensing and control products through wireless connectivity. More information is available at http://www.ember.com.
