Company Profile

Upshift Labs Inc
Profile last edited on: 8/17/21      CAGE: 6RWF4      UEI:

Business Identifier: Data compression technology for mobile devices
Year Founded
2012
First Award
2013
Latest Award
2013
Program Status
Inactive
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Location Information

70 Green Street Suite 2308
Jersey City, NJ 07302
   (646) 397-8187
   info@upshiftlabs.com
   www.upshiftlabs.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 08
County: Hudson

Public Profile

At the time of SBIR award from NSF, UpShift Labs, Inc. was described as an early-stage software start-up bringing cutting edge data compression technology out of Harvard University's research labs to make mobile devices faster, better connected, and more useful. Subsequent publication (2014) by the principals suggested progress. "Mobile device hardware can limit the sophistication of mobile applications. One strategy for side-stepping these constraints is to opportunistically offload computations to the cloud, where more capable hardware can do the heavy lifting. We propose a platform that accomplishes this via compressive offloading, a novel application of compressive sensing in a distributed shared memory setting. Our prototype gives up to an order-of-magnitude acceleration and 60% longer battery life to the end user of an example handwriting recognition app. We argue that offloading is beneficial to both end users and cloud providers—the former experiences a performance boost and the latter receives a steady stream of small computations to fill periods of under-utilization. Such workloads, originating from ARM-based mobile devices, are especially well-suited for offloading to emerging ARM-based data centers.

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
1-4
Revenue Range
Less than .5M
VC funded?
No
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
N/A

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2013 1 NSF $150,000
Project Title: Transparent Cloud Acceleration of Mobile Applications via Compressive Sensing

Key People / Management

  Chit-Kwan Lin

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