Yoics, Your Device Cloud

Yoics Is a Free Service That Lets You Use the Cloud as Your Own Private Network.

We enable safe, secure access to your devices and your data whenever you have an internet connection.

The Company was founded in mid-2007 by a trio of entrepreneurs who believe that anything connected to the internet should be safely and securely available. In fact, the name Yoics was derived as an acronym for ‘Your Own Internet Connected Stuff.’

Yoics’ patent pending peer-to-peer (P2P) technology reinvents how networking is done across the internet, eliminating complex setups and preventing security vulnerabilities.

Already adopted by many of the world’s top manufacturers including Cisco, Astak and Lorex, ‘Powered by Yoics’ products can be found in mainstream retail outlets such as Costco, Amazon, Fry’s Electronics, and The Apple Store.

We are an angel-backed company based in downtown Palo Alto, CA.

Ryo Koyama

Ryo is co-founder and CEO of Yoics. Previously, Ryo was CEO of iReady from its founding to sale to NVIDIA. iReady was the world leader in hardware TCP/IP, and its technology was used to connect thousands of different products to to the internet. Ryo was VP of marketing and business development for Kleer Semiconductor, chairman of Rapid, an industry consortium focused on intellectual property reuse in the semiconductor industry, and a core member of the team spinning out a ubiquitous computing start-up from Xerox Parc. Ryo holds four US patents in the areas of multimedia and networking, and was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from San Jose State University.

Mike Johnson

Mike is co-founder and CTO of Yoics. Previously, Mike defined core architecture at iReady from the Company’s founding until acquisition by Nvidia. At Nvidia, Mike was responsible for driving the efforts in remote network management and represented the Company at IPMI standards activities. Mike is a recognized leader in communication and protocol processing and has been awarded four patents in this area, with an additional three patents pending. Mike was an architect at Kleer semiconductor and a founder at SVN (acquired by Cornisica.). Mike was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the California State University at Chico.

Doug Olkein

Doug is co-founder and VP of Software Development for Yoics. Previously, Doug had been a software professional at established Silicon Valley companies and various internet start-ups for the past 15 years. At GTE (acquired by Verizon), he lead client development of a real-time collaborative suite (acquired by Ezenia) and worked related co-development efforts with PlaceWare (acquired by Microsoft) to advance emerging collaborative technologies for instant messaging and application sharing. Doug held various software engineering positions at Innovision, Ten Square and ActuSoftware. Doug earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the California State University at Sacramento.