Upverter

Upverter is a Toronto, Ontario-based company founded in September 2010 by Zak Homuth, Stephen Hamer, and Michael Woodworth. Upverter is part of a class of software called Electronic design automation or EDA. EDA can be used to design anything that has a circuit board or that plugs into a socket. Upverter builds on the progress of the Open source hardware community with the goal of bringing free and open Electronic design automation tools to the globe and creating a network of collaborative Open design DIY engineers.
History
Upverter is a start-up that was founded in August 2010 by three electrical engineering hobbyists who wanted to create what they say are the first cloud-based Electrical engineering tools. After quitting their jobs at Sandvine Incorporated, xobni and Trendhunter, and working for the past year independently, they participated in the startup incubator Y Combinator in Silicon Valley. They built tools for drawing schematics in HTML5, and launched a crowd-sourced library of parts and design tools. They tested the service with 500 Alpha users. At DEMO conference Fall 2011 held in Santa Clara, California, they opened Upverter to the public, reporting 1000 new users signed on in the first day alone.
Products
The Sketch Tool is Upverter's primary product as of today, a web-based schematic editor with capacity for forking, versioning and integration with GitHub built in social and workflow tools.

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