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Fluidmesh Networks is a manufacturer of wireless networking products founded by four Italian engineers, Umberto Malesci, Cosimo Malesci, Andrea Orioli and Torquato Bertani in 2005 as a spin-off out of MIT, where Umberto Malesci and Cosimo Malesci were graduate students in the Department of Engineering. In 2005 Umberto Malesci was a graduate student working at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with Prof. Samuel Madden and Fluidmesh initial software was based on the Roofnet open-source project leveraging Click Modular Router. The Company was initially incubated in the incubator of the Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy. Over the years, Fluidmesh Networks grew its sales globally in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. The Company obtained significant exposure on the Italian national press and television as a successful example of innovation-driven entrepreneurship in the high tech space.