In 2001, MIT spinout and software firm Ember received $3 million in seed funding from Polaris Venture Partners with DFJ New England, Stata Venture Partners, and Bob Metcalfe, the Ethernet guru.
Ten years and about $89 million later, Ember, now a hardware company, has found a growing market for their ZigBee wireless protocol chips: the smart grid.
via Ten Million Zigbee Smart Grid ICs Shipped by Ember : Greentech Media.
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