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May 31, 2007
Spanish Startup Atalum's Wireless Wizardry
We just discovered a Zigbee startup, Atalum Wireless, out of Spain. The company, which sells network commissioning, design tools, and embedded software to support wireless sensing networks, seems to be getting product to market at a rapid clip. We noticed it because it's offering its protocol stack for free.
It's managed to get a few OEM contracts from what we can see and looks to be making a go of it without having tapped VCs yet. Whether that's by choice or not - we don't know. Wireless sensor networking is one of the a:c euro’s favourite categories, but it's being pretty much neglected by the VCs in the region. We've reported on only a handful of early stage investments since January 2006.
Atalum was co founded by Sandra Lucia Wear (CEO), Ken Nickersonexecutive from iBinary Corp., a private technology research and investment firm, and Dr. José Manuel Páez Borrallo of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, which has a first rate research center on intelligent networking technologies (they call it smart homes, smart buildings, etc.).
This is not Lucia Wear's first venture. She founded DocSpace (acquired by CriticalPath in 2003) and built up its European business, according to her Atalum bio, did some startup consulting, finally staying put at Atalum in 2003.
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