Kozio
Embedded Tools for Better Designs | www.kozio.com.
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| N/A | $2.0m | Convertible | |
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
Kozio, Inc. operated in the electronic design automation (EDA) sector, providing critical software solutions for hardware verification. Established in 2003 by Joseph Skazinski and Keith Short, the company was headquartered in Longmont, Colorado. Skazinski, who served as Chief Technology Officer, brought relevant industry experience from his time in managerial roles at storage solution providers like Vicom Systems and IBM.
In 2010, the company's board appointed Clint Ostrander as Chief Executive Officer and President, citing his extensive experience with technology startups and his ability to scale a company from its initial stages to liquidity. Ostrander's background includes degrees in Engineering from Stanford University and the successful founding and sale of a previous company, Trace Analytical.
The core business of Kozio was centered on delivering a comprehensive hardware design verification and test solution for embedded systems. The company targeted hardware and firmware engineers, providing them with tools to quickly ascertain the design correctness, performance, and reliability of new printed circuit boards (PCBs) from the initial prototype phase through to manufacturing. This addressed the common challenge of having an incomplete or poorly defined verification process for new hardware.
Kozio's primary product was the Verification and Test OS (VTOS), an embedded software package pre-configured for a specific system-on-a-chip (SoC) or board design. VTOS equipped development teams with drivers, performance routines, verification commands, and run-time interpretation, which could be controlled interactively or through automation via paired PC software tools. This suite of tools enabled at-speed validation and interactive debugging, offering a configurable Power-On Self-Test (POST) solution to support in-field hardware validation and isolate faults.
Keywords: electronic design automation, EDA, hardware verification, embedded systems test, circuit board testing, PCB diagnostics, system-on-a-chip, SoC validation, firmware engineering, hardware debug, in-system diagnostics, Verification and Test OS, VTOS, functional production test, prototype testing, fault isolation, embedded design, Longmont Colorado, Clint Ostrander, Joseph Skazinski