Mistral Solutions
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Product Engineering Services (PES), Aerospace and Defense, Homeland Security |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Anees Ahmed Rajeev Ramachandra  |
| Headquarters | Bangalore, Karnataka |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Mujahid Alam (CEO)[1] Anees Ahmed (President) Rajeev Ramachandra (Chief Technology Officer) |
| Services | Embedded Design Services and System Engineering |
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Number of employees | 351+ (January 2015) |
| Website | www |
Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a privately held product design and systems engineering company with a focus on embedded domains. Founded in 1997 by Anees Ahmed[2] and Rajeev Ramachandra, the Indian company was acquired by Axicades Technologies in December 2022.[3]
It offers end-to-end services for embedded design and development in two domains: product engineering services and defense. As of April 2018, Mistral had more than 350 employees providing services across industry verticals like defense and aerospace, wearables,[4] consumer electronics, biometrics, semiconductor support, medical and assistive technology, wireless, automotive electronics, home automation, industrial automation, telecom & networking and homeland security.
It is headquartered in Bengaluru, India with regional offices in Delhi and Hyderabad. The company's US subsidiary, Mistral Solutions Inc., has its headquarters in Fremont, California, with a regional office in Dallas, Texas.
History[edit]
Mistral Solutions 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[5] 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[6] and JAFCO Asia. Both the companies exited in Nov 2017.
Services[edit]
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.
Products[edit]
In addition to services, they also work on Development Platforms, Reference designs, Evaluation Modules and Product on Modules. This includes TMDXEVM8148,[7] AM/DM37x EVM, RTM-BOC, AM437x Product on Module (PoM) and Nano System on Modules (i.MX6 NanoSOM,[8] 820 NanoSOM,[9] AM65x Industrial SOM [10] and 60 GHz mmWave Industrial RADAR Module [11]).
Partners[edit]
Mistral’s partners include Analog Devices, Texas Instruments,[12] Xilinx, Qualcomm, ARM, Intel, Microsoft, Freescale Semiconductors, Wind River Systems, NVidia, Lattice Semiconductor, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, RTI, Zetron, Rinicom, Amper and Esterel Technologies among others.
Awards and recognitions[edit]
- Mistral was the Winner of NASSCOM Innovation Award – 2007[13]
- In 2007, Mistral won the title of "Global Services’ Top 5 Emerging Services Provider"[14]
- In 2008, Mistral was the Winner of Red Herring Asia 100[15]
- 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’[16]
- Mistral won the STPI Karnataka IT Exports Award in 2012[17]
- In 2012, Mistral was among the Global Services 100 Provider
- In 2017, Mistral was awarded the DRDO Defense Technology Absorption Awards[18]
- In 2020, Mistral was awarded the SBI General Insurance SME Awards 2020, partnered by Times Network in the Electricals & Engineering category [19]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Mistral appoints new CEO". Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
- ^ "History of Mistral".
- ^ "AXISCADES completes acquisition of Mistral Solutions". Business Standard. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
- ^ "India's answer to Google Glass".
- ^ "eTEC Ventures invests in Mistral".
- ^ "Nexus Venture Partners, JAFCO Asia Invests in Mistral Solutions".
- ^ "2012 Ace Awards Ultimate Products: Development kits, reference designs, and SBCs".
- ^ "Smallest ever Linux-capable wireless i.MX6 module?".
- ^ "Tiny Snapdragon 820 module offers Linux, Android 7.0, and 9-axis MEMs".
- ^ "Module and dev kit unleash TI's AM65x".
- ^ "Mistral Launches 60 GHz Radar on Module with Antenna-on-Package (AoP) Technology".
- ^ "Mistral joins TI's Design Network". Archived from the original on 19 January 2015.
- ^ "NASSCOM Innovation Award". Archived from the original on 19 April 2015.
- ^ "Global Services' Top 5 Emerging Services Provider".
- ^ "Winner of Red Herring Asia 100".
- ^ "FedEx International Business League".
- ^ "STPI Karnataka IT Exports Award". Archived from the original on 23 May 2013.
- ^ "Mistral Defense Technology Absorption Award".
- ^ "SBI General Insurance SME Awards 2020".