Mistral Solutions

Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Type	Private
Industry	Product Engineering Services (PES) and Defense Solutions
Founded	1997 (1997)
Headquarters	Bangalore, Karnataka
Key people	Mujahid Alam (CEO)[1] Anees Ahmed (President) Rajeev Ramachandra(Chief Technology Officer)
Services	Embedded Design Services and System Engineering
Number of employees	350+ (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 2015, 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 Module(SoM).

Partners

Mistral’s partners include Analog Devices, Texas Instruments,^[7] Xilinx, 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^[8]
• In 2007, Mistral won the title of “Global Services’ Top 5 Emerging Services Provider”^[9]
• In 2008, Mistral was the Winner of Red Herring Asia 100^[10]
• 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’^[11]
• Mistral won the STPI Karnataka IT Exports Award in 2012^[12]
• In 2012, Mistral was among the Global Services 100 Provider

References

External links

• Official website