www.embwise.com

Business Description:EmbWiSe has developed an embedded software stack for the Secure Digital I/O (SDIO) technology,which is becoming a defacto standard interface in the Mobile and CE devices.embWiSe licenses the stack as its IP to semicon,Mobile and CE device vendors.The Semiconductor vendors use SDIOWorx to engineer,develop,test and validate the SDIO functionality in their Processor/SoC/ASIC designs as well as WiFi,UWB,WiMAX,DVB-H,RFID and GPS designs. embWiSe also offers SDIO-WiFi technology - in partnership with leading WLAN technology vendors in North America - bundled with its SDIOWorx software stack.

A production ready code to be deployed in WiFi enabled connected device designs..SDIOWorx is supported on Processors from leading tier-1 semicon vendors like Freescale, Marvell, TI, Atmel, etc., as well as embedded OS platforms like Linux, Nucleus Plus, ThreadX and uITRON targetting Mobile, Poratble Media Players, DSC, Camcorders, etc., embWiSe also provides value-added NRE services around SDIO,SPI,CF and USB interconnect technologies and WiFi 802.11.

Industry:IT/ Internet/ Software

Founded in:2004

Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity

Significant Competitors:Home Grown; Open Source ;

Company Details :

Company Name:embWiSe Technologies

HeadQuarters:Chennai

Stage of the company:Scaling up

No of Employees (2006):6-15

No of Employees (2007):16-25

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):2-5

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):16- 50 lacs

Profits (2007):16-50 lacs

>Partnerships:Marvell Semiconductor Inc; SocketMobile Inc., Mentor Graphics,ExpressLogic,MontaVista and leading semiconductor vendors that cannot be disclosed.

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:Personal savings

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:Through licensing the software IP and Value-added NRE services.

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Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Alagusankar Vellaichamy

Age:34

HomeTown:Tirunelveli

Education:Bachelors National Engineering College

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Principal Engineer at RealNet Solutions Inc

Ex-Job Description:Design and Development

Favorite Book/Movie:The High Performance Entrepreneur by Subrato Bagchi