Cisco Jasper

Jasper Technologies, Inc.

Formerly called	Jasper Wireless, Inc.
Type	Private
Industry	cloud computing, software
Founded	2004
Founder	Jahangir Mohammed
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California, US
Number of locations	Atlanta, Georgia, Singapore, United Kingdom
Key people	Daniel Collins, Co-founder Amit Gupta, Co-founder
Services	Cloud platform, M2M
Number of employees	~400
Website	www.jasper.com

Jasper, now part of Cisco, is an American corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California that provides a cloud-based software platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) and, more specifically, to enable product businesses to become IoT service businesses. The platform is designed to help organizations launch, manage, and monetize the deployment of the Internet of Things worldwide.

Founded in 2004, Jasper partners with over 120 mobile operator networks to serve IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) companies across a wide range industries including: automotive, home security and automation, agriculture, food/beverage, wearable technology, healthcare, advertising and industrial equipment.

On May 2, 2014, the company formerly called Jasper Wireless, Inc., announced a new company name: Jasper Technologies, Inc. The company attributed the change to more accurately representing the company’s product offerings.

On February 3, 2016, Cisco Systems announced its plans to acquire Jasper for $1.4 billion, and on March 22, 2016, finalized the $1.4B acquisition.

With the acquisition, Jasper becomes the IoT Cloud business unit within Cisco. Jasper's CEO, Jahangir Mohammed, is now the GM of the IoT Cloud business unit – reporting to Rowan Trollope, SVP of the IoT and Collaboration Technology Group at Cisco.

Mr. Jahangir Mohammed founded Jasper and served as Chief Executive Officer and member of the board. Following the acquisition by Cisco, Mohammed is now the GM of the IoT Cloud business unit. He is considered one of the early pioneers in IoT solutions, driven by the insight: the IoT is not about things, it's about service. Over the past decade, he has grown Jasper into a global, cloud-based IoT platform used by over 3,500 companies to manage millions of connected products and devices. Under Mohammed's leadership, Jasper was selected for the 2015 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award which recognizes technology companies impacting business and society.