Business Description:Saankhya Labs is a fabless semiconductor company designing world's first programmable universal demodulator IC. The proliferation of wireless and broadcast technologies has increased the number of standards to be supported in consumer devices such as Digital TVs, PCs and cell phones. In this scenario, products based on Hardwired Architectures suffers from disadvantages of increased cost, inflexibility and long time-to-market. Saankhya provides flexible yet cost effective solutions to address this problem. Saankhya's IC can receive signals from any standard and demodulate them, thus requiring only one IC in chassis to receive signals from many different standards. This reduces the system cost for DTV, PC-TV and mobile TV manufactures. Saankhya's IC is based on a Software Defined Radio platform, i.e., a programmable semiconductor platform consisting of several processors and associated software. The IC is targeted at Digital TV, PC-TV and mobile TV receiver markets.
Industry:Semiconductor
Founded in:2007
Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity
Significant Competitors:No Direct Competition. Indirect Competitors include Broadcom, Mediatek, Siano, ST Micro, NXP
Company Details :
Company Name:Saankhya Labs
HeadQuarters:Bangalore
Stage of the company:Have prototype
No of Employees (2006):0-5
No of Employees (2007):26-50
Office Locations(2006):0-1
Office Locations(2007):0-1
No of companies promoted:Yes (3)
Profits (2006):preprofit
Profits (2007):preprofit
>Partnerships:Semiconductor Distrubutors and Partners in Japan and Taiwan.
Initial Funding:Personal savings
Addl Funding:Angel investors
Institutitional Capital:No
Revneue Model:Selling demodulator ICs to DTV PC-TV ODM's and large CE brand companies like Sony, Philips and Panasonic
Awards & honors:
Promoters Details :
Promoters Name(s):Parag Naik
Age:38
HomeTown:Belgaum
Education:Bachelors
No of companies promoted:Yes (3)
Family Background:First gen entrepreneur
Job:Engineering Manager( Technology) at Genesis Microchip Inc
Ex-Job Description:R&D
Favorite Book/Movie:The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
