Vanu Bose
Vanu Bose | |
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| Born | Vanu Amar Bose April 29, 1965 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | November 11, 2017 (aged 52) Carlisle, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | MIT |
| Occupations | Electrical engineer; founder and CEO of Vanu, Inc. |
| Relatives | Amar Bose (father) |
| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
| Website | vanu |
Vanu Gopal Bose (October 4, 1965 – November 11, 2017) was an American electrical engineer and the founder of Vanu Inc. He was the son of Amar Bose, the founder of Bose Corporation.[1]
Life and career
[edit | edit source]Bose was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1965 to Amar Bose and Prema Sarathy Bose. His parents later divorced.[2] He attended Wayland High School and graduated in 1983. He attended his father's alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with a BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics in 1988, he earned an MS in 1994, and a PhD in 1999.[3] He was the founder and CEO of Vanu, Inc., a firm that markets software-defined radio technology.[4][5][6] The company uses technology based on his graduate research work, called SpectrumWare, under supervisors David L. Tennenhouse and John Guttag.[7][8][9] The technology was licensed from MIT in 1999 after several rounds of negotiation.[10][11]
In November 2004, its Anywave technology became the first use of software-defined radio certified by the US Federal Communications Commission, and ADC Telecommunications announced it would manufacture related hardware.[12] In 2005, work with India's Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) was announced to use its technology for base transceiver stations at cell sites in rural India.[13] By 2008, a telecommunications provider in India was reported to be testing the technology.[14]
A venture capital investment of $9 million in 2007 from Charles River Ventures was followed by $32 million in 2008, from an arm of the Tata Group, Norwest Venture Partners.[15] A subsidiary, Vanu Coverage Company, announced $3.2 million investment in 2012.[16]
He took his technology to many countries and regions that otherwise would have had no access. Shortly before his death, he donated durable solar-powered cellular sites to the devastated island of Puerto Rico to assist in the location of family members following the devastation by hurricanes in 2017.[17]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Bose married Judith L. Hill in September 2007.[18] They have one daughter. Bose died suddenly in Carlisle, Massachusetts on November 11, 2017, of a pulmonary embolism, aged 52.[2][19][6]
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- 1965 births
- 2017 deaths
- American chief executives in technology
- American people of Bengali descent
- Deaths from pulmonary embolism
- MIT School of Engineering alumni
- American people of French descent
- American people of German descent
- Businesspeople from Boston
- 20th-century American businesspeople
- American Hindus