Mistral Solutions

Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Private
Industry Product Engineering Services (PES) and Defense Solutions
Founded 1997 (1997)
Headquarters Bangalore, Karnataka
Area served
 Global
Key people
 Mujahid Alam (CEO)[1]
Anees Ahmed (President)
RajeevRamachandra(Chief Technology Officer)
Services Embedded Design Services and System Engineering
Number of employees
 351+ (January 2015)
Website www.mistralsolutions.com

Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a privately held product design and systems engineering company with focus in the embedded domain. Founded in 1997, Mistral is headquartered in Bengaluru, India with regional offices in Delhi and Hyderabad. The company's US subsidiary, Mistral Solutions Inc., has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California with a regional office in Dallas, Texas. The company offers end-to-end services for embedded design and development in two domains: Product Engineering Services and Defense Solutions.

As of April 2018, Mistral has more than 350 employees providing services across industry verticals like defense and aerospace, wearables,[2] consumer electronics, biometrics, semiconductor support, medical and assistive technology, wireless, automotive electronics, home automation, industrial automation, telecom & networking and homeland security.

History

The company was founded by co-founders Anees Ahmed[3] and Rajeev Ramachandra. It started operations as a value-added reseller for Wind River real-time operating systems and other COTS products in India. The company also offered design services by providing reference designs on the Analog Devices platforms and worked on data acquisition and signal processing related defense projects for various DRDO laboratories in the country. It later expanded its operations to the global market with a dedicated hardware and software design services team catering to the embedded electronics and systems arena. In 2001, Mistral received a series A funding of 3.5 Million USD from eTec Ventures[4] and established Mistral Software Inc. in USA. In 2004, Mistral entered into a strategic alliance with Curtiss-Wright Embedded Computing which is today Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions. It received its second round of funding in 2008 of USD 6.5 Million from Nexus Ventures Partners[5] and JAFCO Asia.

Services

The company specializes in Board Design, FPGA Design, Firmware, Device Drivers and BSP (Board support packages) development, Middleware and Embedded application development, System Integration, Production Support and Product Lifecycle Management. The services offered range from front-end consulting and planning to developing, integrating and managing turnkey technology solutions.

Products

In addition to services, they also work on Development Platforms, Reference designs, Evaluation Modules and Product on Modules. This includes TMDXEVM8148,[6] AM/DM37x EVM, RTM-BOC, AM437x Product on Module (PoM) and Nano System on Modules (i.MX6 NanoSOM [7] and 820 NanoSOM [8]).

Partners

Mistral’s partners include Analog Devices, Texas Instruments,[9] Xilinx, Qualcomm, ARM, Altera, Microsoft, Freescale Semiconductors, Wind River Systems, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, RTI, Zetron, Rinicom, Amper and Esterel Technologies among others.

Awards and recognitions

  • Mistral was the Winner of NASSCOM Innovation Award – 2007[10]
  • In 2007, Mistral won the title of "Global Services’ Top 5 Emerging Services Provider"[11]
  • In 2008, Mistral was the Winner of Red Herring Asia 100[12]
  • In 2009, Mistral featured in the NASSCOM’s "Top 50 IT Innovators" list
  • In 2010, Mistral was featured in the FedEx IBL ‘International Business League’[13]
  • Mistral won the STPI Karnataka IT Exports Award in 2012[14]
  • In 2012, Mistral was among the Global Services 100 Provider
  • In 2017, Mistral was awarded the DRDO Defense Technology Asborption Awards[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Mistral appoints new CEO".
  2. ↑ "India's answer to Google Glass".
  3. ↑ "History of Mistral".
  4. ↑ "eTEC Ventures invests in Mistral".
  5. ↑ "Nexus Venture Partners, JAFCO Asia Invests in Mistral Solutions".
  6. ↑ "2012 Ace Awards Ultimate Products: Development kits, reference designs, and SBCs".
  7. ↑ "Smallest ever Linux-capable wireless i.MX6 module?".
  8. ↑ "Tiny Snapdragon 820 module offers Linux, Android 7.0, and 9-axis MEMs".
  9. ↑ "Mistral joins TI's Design Network". Archived from the original on 2015-01-19.
  10. ↑ "NASSCOM Innovation Award". Archived from the original on 2015-04-19.
  11. ↑ "Global Services' Top 5 Emerging Services Provider".
  12. ↑ "Winner of Red Herring Asia 100".
  13. ↑ "FedEx International Business League".
  14. ↑ "STPI Karnataka IT Exports Award". Archived from the original on 2013-05-23.
  15. ↑ "Mistral Defense Technology Absorption Award".
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