Edgewater Wireless CEO to join 'Catalysts of Innovation' Event in Silicon Valley
Join us in Silicon Valley — Sept 4 Our CEO will speak on Silicon Catalyst's Catalysts of Innovation panel—co-hosted with Arm. Hear how our AI-powered Spectrum Slicing™ and PrismIQ™ are redefining Wi-Fi QoS in performance-critical environments
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The event convenes startup leaders, investors, and ecosystem partners to explore what true product–market fit looks like in semiconductors—where capital efficiency, technical risk reduction, and early traction are paramount. The panel moderated by Laura Swan, General Partner, Silicon Catalyst Ventures, will feature Andrew Skafel (CEO, Edgewater Wireless), and the CEOs of Silicon Catalyst companies, Gigantor and Quadric.
'I am thrilled to be part of such an exciting panel discussion and look forward to meeting with the Silicon Valley crowd,' said Andrew Skafel, President & CEO of Edgewater Wireless. 'At Edgewater, we're redefining Wi-Fi from the silicon up. Our patented Spectrum Slicing approach and the PrismIQ™ product family are engineered to deliver unmatched Quality of Service in dense, performance-critical environments. I'm excited to share how we're aligning AI-driven innovation with clear go-to-market pathways—working with world-class partners across the ecosystem.'
Details about the event can be found at:
About Edgewater Wireless
We make Wi-Fi. Better.
Edgewater Wireless delivers unmatched Wi-Fi QoS—bar none—by intelligently mitigating congestion, managing spectrum allocation in real-time, and autonomously reconfiguring channel and link density—driving economic gains for service providers and their customers through reduced churn, improved efficiency, and high-performance connectivity in dense environments. Redefining Wi-Fi from the silicon up, Edgewater's patented, AI-powered Spectrum Slicing platform—delivered through the PrismIQ™ product family—breaks the limits of legacy Wi-Fi by enabling multiple concurrent channels in a single band. Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing delivers 10x performance and up to 50% lower latency, even for legacy devices. With 26 patents and a fabless model, Edgewater is transforming the economics of Wi-Fi for service providers, OEMs, and enterprises—powering scalable, standards-aligned/leading connectivity across residential, enterprise, and Industrial IoT markets. A Silicon Catalyst portfolio company, Edgewater is building the intelligence wireless foundation for the next era of global connectivity.
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