Mistral Solutions
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Product Engineering Services (PES), Aerospace and Defense, Homeland Security |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Independent |
| Headquarters | Bangalore, Karnataka |
Area served | Global |
Key people | |
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Number of employees | 558+ (Dec 2024) |
| Website | www |
Mistral Solutions is an Indian product design and systems engineering company with a focus on embedded domains, founded in 1997.
Mistral is headquartered in Bengaluru, India with regional offices in Delhi and Hyderabad. The company's US subsidiary, Mistral Solutions Inc., has its headquarters in Fremont, California, with a regional office in Dallas, Texas.
History
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[4] 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[5] and JAFCO Asia.
Partners
Mistral's partners include Analog Devices, Texas Instruments,[6] 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[7]
- In 2008, Mistral was the Winner of Red Herring Asia 100[8]
- In 2009, Mistral featured in the NASSCOM’s "Top 50 IT Innovators" list
- Mistral won the STPI Karnataka IT Exports Award in 2012[9]
- In 2017, Mistral was awarded the DRDO Defense Technology Absorption Awards[10]
See also
References
- ^ "Bengaluru firm bags Rs 100-cr defence electronics order". The Times of India. 20 January 2026.
- ^ "AXISCADES secures ₹100 Cr Defence Radar Subsystem Order (BSE filing)" (PDF). BSE India. 19 January 2026.
- ^ "Leadership". Mistral Solutions.
- ^ "eTEC Ventures invests in Mistral".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Abrar, Peerzada (10 June 2011). "Indian start-up Mistral Solutions finds business in developing technology for US defence and homeland security". The Economic Times. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
- ^ "Mistral joins TI's Design Network".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "NASSCOM Innovation Award".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "Red Herring 100 Asia 2008~Winners and Finalists". herringresearch.com. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
- ^ "STPI Karnataka IT Exports Award". Archived from the original on 23 May 2013.
- ^ "Mistral conferred with the Prestigious Defence Technology Absorption Award from DRDO". Electronics Maker. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2025.