SICS spin-off companies

2009

Telcred
Telcred develops software that enables mobile phones and other mobile devices, such as smart cards, to be used for physical access control, ticketing, and micro payments. The company is a spin-off from SICS founded by Babak Sadighi and Carlo Pompili and builds on a patented method for creating, distributing and verifying access rights.
www.telcred.com

2008

Peerialism
Peerialism’s product for video distribution over internet – PeerTV – enables content owners to distribute better quality video at significantly lower cost to many more viewers. Cost savings are between 50% to 90% depending on network conditions whilst the maximum number of simultaneous viewers is almost limitless. The company is built on research by Professor Seif Haridi and researcher Ali Ghodsi at SICS and KTH.
www.peerialism.se

Gavagai
Gavagai was formed in 2007 as a spin-off from SICS by Jussi Karlgren and Magnus Sahlgren. Gavagai develops highly scalable methods for retreiving actionable intelligence from dynamic data.
www.gavagai.se

2007

Axiomatics
Axiomatics was founded in by two SICS researchers, Babak Sadighi and Erik Rissanen. Axiomatics is developing and marketing the authorization system called Delegent. Delegent is the market's first authorization system implementing the upcoming XACML 3.0 standard from the OASIS Consortium.
www.axiomatics.com

2006

Asimus
Asimus was founded by former SICS researcher Rickard Cöster. The company develops innovative search technology and offers both products and consultancy services.

VerySolid
Verysolid Technology Sweden was founded by former SICS researcher Fredrik Espinoza. The company designs, develops, and sells highly usable mobile services with a focus on existing backends and fast time to market.

1999

Voxi
Voxi was founded by a group of four; three of whom, Mårten Stenius, Erland Lewin and Daniel Adler came from SICS. The company, which stems from a spare-time programming project undertaken by the founders, develops a general-purpose platform for speech interaction, Intelligent Speech Interfaces (ISI). The business idea is to license this software to application developers, who then take the products to consumers within different domains.
www.voxi.com

BotBox
BotBox was formed by three SICS researchers: Sverker Janson, Joakim Eriksson and Niclas Finne. The company is based on SICS research into agent-based systems. BotBox is designed to allow any user, novice or expert, home or business, to manage a personalized environment of bots on their personal computers with great simplicity and safety.
www.botbox.com

1998

PipeBeach
PipeBeach was founded by former SICS researcher Scott McGlashan together with people from Ericsson. PipeBeach develops an audio browser server that makes the mobile phone a convenient tool for retrieving information from the Web. PipeBeach was acquired by HP in august 2003.

Virtutech
Virtutech was founded by Peter Magnusson and four other SICS researchers. Virtutech produces tools for developing and designing high-performance computer systems, including database servers and switchboards. Virtutech develops and markets Virtutech® Simics™, a tool that simulates a workstation, multiprocessor servers, clusters, or networks on the level of individual machine code instructions. Virtutech has offices in Sweden and in the U.S.A.

Virtutech was sold in 2010 to Wind River, owned by Intel Corporation.

Tacton
Tacton was founded by Klas Orsvärn, Thomas Axling, Robert Nilsson, Max Leitgeb, Anders Holm and Stefan Andersson, all researchers at SICS. Their products include an e-commerce engine and sales support for configurable product lines. Tacton has a subsidiary in the UK.
www.tacton.com

1997

Effnet
Effnet was founded by four researchers from Luleå University of Technology and SICS (Stephen Pink and Mikael Degermark). The company provides fast networking products, designed for mission critical applications. Effnet has offices in Sweden and in the U.S.A.
www.effnet.com

1997

Dynarc
Dynarc was founded by former SICS lab manager Peter Sjödin. Dynarc developed scalable high-performance networks for data, voice and video traffic.