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2001

  • Ember founded by Andrew Wheeler and Robert Poor
  • Ember receives $3 million in seed funding led by Polaris Venture Partners with DFJ New England, Stata Venture Partners, and Bob Metcalfe.

 

2002

  • Ember secures additional $5 million in Series A funding. GrandBanks Capital joins Ember investors
  • Ember announces General Availability of EmberNet products suite

 

2003

  • Ember and Chipcon announce partnership to develop low-cost, low-power radios for Embedded Wireless Networking
  • EmberNet Evaluation Kit Released
  • Ember announces EM2420, 2.4 GHz chip, compliant with the IEEE 802.15.4 standard
  • Ember joins the ZigBee Alliance

 

2004

  • Control Engineering Magazine Names Ember's Wireless Chipset Among Top Innovations in 2003
  • Ember Wins "Top Innovator" Award at Prestigious Under the Radar Conference
  • Ember becomes a promoter of the ZigBee Alliance and gets a seat on the alliance’s Board of Directors
  • Ember purchases 802.15.4 radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit technology from Cambridge Consultants Ltd. (CCL) and hired the engineering team that developed it
  • Testing and quality assurance giant National Technical Systems, Inc. (NTS) selects Ember Chip Platform as the Golden Suite for IEEE 802.15.4 Interoperability
  • Ember University Certifies 100 Developers to Create the next wave of wireless mesh networking applications for monitoring and control
  • Ember closes additional $25 million in funding led by Vulcan Capital. New strategic investors include Chevron Texaco Technology Ventures, Hitachi Ltd. and WestAM
  • Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com, Polaris Ventures partner, and member of the Ember BOD becomes chairman of Ember
  • Ember announces industry's first ZigBee wireless network platform
  • Ember Wins Prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Innovators Award

 

2005

  • Ember announces partnership with Atmel on the ultra-low power ZigBee™ semiconductor platform.
  • Ember becomes one of the first companies to earn official ZigBee-compliant status
  • Ember ships EmberZNet ZigBee software
  • Ember announces EM250, world's first ZigBee system-on-chip
  • Ember unveils EM260 ZigBee network co-processor
  • Ember ships EmberZNet 2.0 ZigBee software

 

2006

  • STMicroelectronics and Ember announce partnership to develop next-generation ZigBee chip platforms
  • Ember ships EM250 system-on-chip
  • Robert LeFort joins Ember as CEO
  • Ember ships EM260 ZigBee network co-processor
  • Ember closes an additional $12 million in funding from its primary investors and strategic partners
  • Ember inks global distribution agreement with Digi-Key
  • Ember launches RF Evaluation Kit

 

2007

  • Ember launches professional grade software - EmberZNet PRO
  • Ember's ZigBee technology platform named "Best New Wireless Product" by attendees at BuilConn 2007, in Rosemont, IL.
  • Ember unveils EmberZNet PRO 3.1 software - the industry's first ZigBee software supporting the ZigBee PRO Feature Set
   
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