Startup Companies Use MATLAB and Simulink to Develop Pioneering Technologies and Advance Their Business - MATLAB
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Startup Companies Use MATLAB and Simulink to Develop Pioneering Technologies and Advance Their Business

Creating the next-generation global telecom infrastructure. Harnessing the “DNA” of individual voices to unlock the potential of voice-based interfaces. Using AI to prevent crop damage and improve yields. Startup-friendly pricing for MATLAB and Simulink enables Altaeros, Yobe, Kestrel, and other early-stage technology startups to develop pioneering technologies and break boundaries to improve how we live, work, and play.

Altaeros’s mission is to rapidly expand affordable, state-of-the-art telecommunications to rural communities around the world. The Altaeros SuperTower uses the world’s first autonomous aerostat platform to deploy high-speed mobile broadband in rural markets at a fraction of the cost of alternatives. Each SuperTower replaces a network of 15 traditional cell towers and seamlessly integrates into the existing cell network.

Yobe has created software that can accurately track a voice’s “DNA” in any auditory environment and separate a voice of interest from background noise including other voices. This approach improves overall sound quality and speech command accuracy for far-field applications and speaker identification platforms. An example use case is the ability to use a low-power “wake word” (i.e., Alexa, Siri, OK Google) to validate authorized users, retrieve their user profiles, and preload their device and application settings in noisy environments.

Kestrel Agritech applies intelligent hardware and evolving algorithms to images from low-altitude thermal surveillance from unmanned drones. Their proprietary recognition algorithm driven by AI can identify pests and damaged crops across large farms. The algorithm learns from its mistakes and evolves to pinpoint the location of infestations and destroy pests automatically.

Altaeros, Yobe, and Kestrel Agritech are among the more than 3000 companies that have joined the MathWorks Startup Program. Access to MATLAB and Simulink at startup-friendly prices has helped these emerging companies perform critical research, develop prototypes quickly with limited staff, and attract key investors that help bring their products to production.

Published: 13 Feb 2019

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Alteros is a startup company that is developing a lighter than air cell phone tower. Internet and communications is just something everyone should have access to. And from day, one we were working with MATLAB Tools.

Imagine a world where you can speak to your device from across the room and there's background noise. What Yobe allows us to do is create an environment where the signal processing can track your voice in any auditory environment. Basically, signal processing that thinks.

Farming, in general, most of the pest control is indiscriminate. The farmers stand to lose a lot. We want to be the solution that powers autonomous robots, autonomous vehicles, autonomous drones, to control the damage. Being founders of early stage startups is truly hard and any help you can get increases your survival rate.

Having everything in one product-- data analysis, mathematical modeling, code generation, testing and verification-- is very powerful. When you go out and test and fly it, you say, oh, wow. We saw that. We saw that in the model. That's the benefit.

When we started with Yobe, what we had was the science. In order to convince investors that we had something real, we had to put together demonstrations rather quickly. And that was done in MATLAB.

MATLAB helped us do that, which made capital conversations easier, which helped us secure funding from the National Science Foundation.

Knowing that we're entering that growth stage and having tools in hand that will help us develop makes entering that next stage of our company less risky.

As part of the startup program, MATLAB helped us network and find other startups, find other experts. It's also helped us build credibility with our investors.

They send out customer service reps that you would basically hold out for larger clients, and here we are, six by six office, and we're getting treated like we're an actual large client. That's something, as a startup, you really don't forget. You look for partnerships that can grow with you. We found that partner in MathWorks.

It's more than just software. It's a community.

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