Mistral Solutions

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 US$3.5 Million from eTec Ventures 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 US$6.5 million from Nexus Ventures Partners and JAFCO Asia. ==Partners==

Mistral's partners include Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, AMD Xilinx, Qualcomm, ARM, Intel, Microsoft, Freescale Semiconductors, Wind River Systems, NVidia, Lattice Semiconductor, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, RTI, Zetron, Rinicom, Amper and Ansys among others. ==Awards and recognitions==

• Mistral was the Winner of NASSCOM Innovation Award – 2007 • In 2008, Mistral was the Winner of Red Herring Asia 100 • In 2009, Mistral featured in the NASSCOM’s "Top 50 IT Innovators" list • Mistral won the STPI Karnataka IT Exports Award in 2012 • In 2017, Mistral was awarded the DRDO Defense Technology Absorption Awards ==See also==