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MEMS and sensors CAE startup OnScale raises $3 million, emerges from stealth mode

Emerging from stealth mode this week, OnScale announced $3 million in strategic seed funding and unveiled the industry's first solver-as-a-service platform that gives engineers the power to accelerate innovation in the $40 billion MEMS, sensors, 5G, biomedical, IoT, and automated car markets. OnScale was co-founded by CEO Ian Campbell, VP of Product Development Dr. Robbie Banks, and VP of Engineering Dr. Gerry Harvey as a spin-off from Thornton Tomasetti, a large science and engineering consulting company. The seed round was led by Thornton Tomasetti, with participation from Silicon Valley investors such as Michael Lehman, former CFO of Arista Networks, Palo Alto Networks, and Sun Microsystems, and CampbellKlein, an early stage high-tech venture fund.

COMSOL expands distribution channel in China

(Press Release) -- COMSOL Inc. has named ZhongFang Information Technology Ltd. (also known as CnTech) as its distributor in the Peoples' Republic of China (including Hong Kong and Macao) effective immediately.  That firm, based in Shanghai, is responsible for all marketing, sales, local training, and support of the COMSOL product line along with the supplier's other mathematical modeling and analysis software.

COMSOL's Multiphysics offers options, flexibility to MEMS designers

COMSOL recently released a MEMS module for its FEMLAB simulation software.  We recently spoke with Dr. John Dunec, the manager of the company's Palo Alto branch, about COMSOL current offerings in the MEMS area and its plans for the future.  We also asked Dr. Dunec about emerging MEMS applications that he thought had  promising prospects for growth over the next few years.