A Closer Look

Averna is a privately owned test engineering company founded in 1999. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, it has offices in Atlanta, Palo Alto, Toronto, Ottawa, and Belfast, with a Channel Sales Partner network that spans Europe, Asia and North America. Our team of professionals is 275-strong, over 175 of them engineers.

We cater to the telecommunications and high-tech electronics industries, aerospace and defence, and the automotive sector. Our products, services, solutions and expertise are used at every point in the product lifecycle to help electronics OEMS get their products to market faster and achieve higher standards of quality.

Averna's award-winning software and hardware solutions are strengthened by our commitment to rigorous processes and control, as certified by ISO 9001:2008, CSIA, and the Controlled Goods Program of Canada. We have been honoured repeatedly for our technology and growth. For example, we have received an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® Award, a Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Technology of the Year Award, and we have been named consistently to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 and Fast 500 rankings. Plus we are partner to international heavy hitters in different industries, such as National Instruments and Agilent Technologies, testimony to our focus on long-term partnerships.

Our history

At Averna, we never stand still. Since our beginnings, year after year, we have acquired promising technologies, opened new offices, created powerful partnerships and received prestigious awards and accolades. Every year, we tackle something new, successfully. Here are just some of the highlights of the past nine years.

  • Acquires DAQTron, Inc.
    • Expands broadband portfolio with DOCSIS, Trident, Jupiter and Mercury product lines
    • Trident suite brings greater video capability to the URT
    • Atlanta office becomes new U.S. headquarters
  • President Pascal Pilon named SGF-CEO of the Year
  • URT Record & Playback named finalist for Best in Test Award
  • Pascal Pilon named to Canada’s Top 40 Under 40™
  • Richard Maltais and Pascal Pilon win Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2009 Quebec Award, Technology category
  • Climbs to #26 on Deloitte Technology Fast 50™
  • Launch of Proligent Enterprise, Proligent Networks, Proligent Analytics

  • Acquired substantially all assets of Mindready Solutions Inc.
  • Acquired, rebranded, and relaunched Universal Receiver Tester (URT) and IEEE-1394 software and hardware solutions
  • Became global company with addition of offices and partner locations across America, Europe, and Asia
  • Won prestigious Graphical System Design Achievement Award, Industrial Measurements and Control category
  • URT Record & Playback named finalist for 2008 Canadian Award for New Technology
  • President Pascal Pilon nominated for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® Award
  • Named to Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Fast 500

  • Registered as Averna Corp. in the United States
  • Opened Silicon Valley branch in Palo Alto, CA
  • Named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500

  • Establishes long-term partnership with Agilent Technologies by becoming a channel partner
  • Wins Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Technology of the Year Award
  • Opens Toronto office

  • President Pascal Pilon wins the Arista competition and nominated for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® Award
  • Named a National Instruments Select Partner, reserved for distinguished members of the company’s partner program

  • Develops distributed data acquisition, control, and simulation system: AvDAS
  • Wins National Instruments best application award

  • Receives ISO 9001: 2000 certification
  • Develops distributed data acquisition and supervisory control system: CDACS

  • Moves to Cité Multimédia technology center to accommodate growth

  • Proligent™ first developed
  • Opens Ottawa sales and development office

  • Pascal Pilon, Adil Lahlou, and Richard Maltais found Averna Technologies Inc.
  • Named a National Instruments Alliance Partner