Alereon, Inc, is a
fabless semiconductor company. It uses
ultrawideband
Ultra-wideband (UWB, ultra wideband, ultra-wide band and ultraband) is a radio technology that can use a very low energy level for short-range, high-bandwidth communications over a large portion of the radio spectrum. UWB has traditional applicati ...
(UWB) radio technology to develop
Certified Wireless USB and
WiMedia Alliance
The WiMedia Alliance was a non-profit industry trade group that promoted the adoption, regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperability of ultra-wideband (UWB) technologies. It existed from about 2002 through 2009.
History
The Wirel ...
-compliant UWB
integrated circuits
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(ICs). Headquartered in
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most-populous city ...
, Alereon also has offices in
Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...
and
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
. Alereon was spun off from Time Domain Corporation of
Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Limestone County, and Morgan County, Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Madison County. Located in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama, Huntsville is the most populous city in ...
, in August 2003 taking with it a number of engineers, executives, and patents from its parent company. An early investor was
Austin Ventures
Austin Ventures (AV) is a private equity firm focused on venture capital and growth equity investments in business services and supply chain, financial services, new media, Internet, and information services companies nationally with a focus o ...
.
It initially backed the multi-band
orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing approach taken by the MultiBand OFDM Alliance.
A number of competing technologies were discussed by the
IEEE 802.15 standards committee in 2004.
In October 2005, $20 million in financing included investors Centennial Ventures and Pharos Capital. After the IEEE effort was abandoned, the venture arm of
Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, a ...
invested $4 million in December 2006. By 2009, Eric Brookman was still chief executive. In June 2012, an addition $6 million of funding was announced with investors Pharos Capital Partners and Duchossois Technology Partners and led by Enhanced Capital Partners.
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Electronics companies established in 2003
Fabless semiconductor companies
2003 establishments in Texas
Semiconductor companies of the United States
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