GW Instruments, Inc.

Specialties

GW Instruments manufacturers data acquisition hardware and software products for windows computers

Meet the Business Owner

glenn W.

Business Owner

GW Instruments was founded in 1984 by Glenn Weinreb, who foresaw the revolutionary changes brought to laboratory computing by the personal computer. Between 1984 and 1986, the company was actually run from a dormitory room at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The formation of the company was an outgrowth of products (logarithmic amplifiers and Apple II I/​O products) developed and sold by Glenn between 1976 and 1984, as a youth with Electrical Engineer aspirations. Today, Desktop Engineering is a reality — the personal computer presence in the laboratory is growing, and GW Instruments is well established as a leader in providing data acquisition hardware and software. In January 1987 the company was incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 1988, the company successfully raised its first outside equity through the sale of securities to a venture capital firm.