Auspion, Inc. is a VC-funded start-up located in Pasadena, California.
We’re on a mission to deliver electric power through the air at room scale
and beyond. To truly free people and businesses from having to run wires, change batteries, plug things in or bring them to a power source.
And we’re doing it with the most efficient, precise and intelligent
wireless power over distance system ever conceived.
Beginning with the discovery of fire, there is a long history of innovation in the safe use of energy to improve
our lives and our economy. The taming of electromagnetism in our use of electric devices, mass electricity generation and distribution and the development of fuel-based and renewable power sources are all ways humans have harnessed power for the betterment of civilization.
Our mission is to continue along this path of transformation to deliver electric power through the air at room scale
and beyond. To change the way that electricity is delivered over the last, most expensive few yards of distance, to untether devices from their power source in exactly the same way they’ve been set free from physical connection
to data—and to realize the vision of a truly wireless world.
Our vision is a world
in which the wireless revolution reaches its full potential to change how we live and work.
Our Leadership Team
Ali Hajimiri
Behrooz Abiri
Peter Santos
Florian Bohn
Peter Santos
Auspion CEO
An entrepreneurial technology executive with experience as public and private company CEO, Peter previously
led Audience (NASDAQ:ADNC) from an early stage to profitability and an highly successful IPO. After Audience, he helped launch Blue Bear Ventures, a venture fund associated with one of the leading startup accelerators at UC Berkeley. Peter brings to Auspion a record of success growing market leading technology-based businesses in domains including algorithms, hardware, software, telecommunications systems, and consumer electronics. He holds a BA in Chemistry from Colby College and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC Chapel Hill.
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Behrooz Abiri
Auspion Co-founder and CTO
Behrooz is responsible for translation of the company’s powerful fundamental technology into a scalable,
cost effective commercial system. He leads the ongoing evolution of Auspion’s core technology and system architecture, building on his contributions to the system design and architecture of Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative. As an International Physics Olympiad gold medalist, Caltech Electrical Engineering Ph.D. graduate, and hardware hobbyist, Behrooz brings to Auspion strong problem solving skills along with long term vision for Auspion’s technology. Prior to Caltech, he received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and M.A.Sc. in Electronic and Computer Engineering from University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
Inc. in 2009.
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Ali Hajimiri
Auspion Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, and Chief Scientific Advisor
Ali is an inventor, serial entrepreneur, and a world renowned expert on high frequency integrated circuits and systems. He co-founded Axiom Microdevices, whose fully-integrated CMOS power amplifier shipped more than 250M units en route to a successful exit. Ali and his team have also been responsible for technological advances such as millimeter-wave integrated phase arrays, and optical phase arrays. He is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) as well as IEEE, holds more than 100 issued patents and was selected to the TR35 world top innovator\’s list. He received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Before joining the Faculty of Caltech, Ali worked at Philips Semiconductors, where he worked on a BiCMOS chipset for GSM and cellular units, at Sun Microsystems working on the UltraSPARC microprocessor\’s cache RAM design methodology, and with Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs), Murray Hill, NJ, where he investigated low-phase-noise integrated oscillators. In 1998, he joined the Faculty of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, where he is Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering, Director of Caltech Holistic Integrated Circuit Laboratory, and co-Director of the Space-based Solar Power Project. His research interests are high-speed and high-frequency electronics and photonics integrated circuits for applications in sensors, biomedical devices, photonics, and communication systems.
Florian Bohn
Auspion Co-founder, board member and Vice President of Engineering
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Florian is responsible for the technical execution of the company’s vision. He brings to Auspion many years of industry experience, including defining and implementing the high-frequency RF integrated circuits at Axiom Microdevices that shipped more than 250M units. Prior to co-founding Auspion, Florian served as a Lead Scientific Researcher at Caltech, leading engineering and operational aspects of the microwave system implementation of Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. from Caltech in Electrical Engineering.
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