Internet of Things and Data Analytics Startups Join Cisco Incubation Program

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 22, 2015) - Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today unveiled the newest cohort of startups to join Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR), an incubation program supporting early-stage business-to-business companies. The incoming cohort will collaborate with Cisco and its global partner ecosystem to build Internet of Everything, Big Data/Analytics and Smart City solutions.

Cohort companies take part in a six-month program of events, mentoring and collaboration geared towards bringing ideas to reality. Entrepreneurs selected to participate receive support from and introductions to business groups within Cisco, access to co-working space, and mentoring from industry experts. Program events feature opportunities to present products and ideas to investors and partners, as well.

Four of the new cohort will join the Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence in Silicon Valley:

• Measurence (www.measurence.com), based out of New York, provides a mobile analytics and intelligence platform for retailers and other businesses.
• ParStream (www.parstream.com), located in California and Germany, offers a complete analytics platform built for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) solutions utilizing massively parallel processing technologies.
• PLAT.ONE (www.platone.co), from Italy, delivers a "cloud-ready" end-to-end IoT and machine-to-machine application platform.
• Preferred Networks (preferred-america.com) of Japan adds intelligence to the Internet of Everything by applying machine learning and Big Data technologies to devices and networks.
  
  

Two additional startups are joining Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence as part of joint-incubation programs launched with regional partners. 

• Embedor Technologies (embedortech.com), a startup spun out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Park, develops wireless smart sensor technologies for the structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure. Embedor is the first startup selected for CiscoEIR@CIE, a joint-incubation program launched in partnership with Chicago Innovation Exchange (cie.uchicago.edu), the University of Chicago's new center for innovation and entrepreneurship. 
• Koriist (www.koriist.com), based in San Diego, California, "stitches" together legacy and smart digital infrastructure, enabling faster and smoother deployment of Smart City solutions. Koriist is the first startup selected for CiscoEIR@EvoNexus, a joint incubation program launched in partnership with EvoNexus (www.commnexus.org/evonexus), a premier startup incubator located in San Diego.