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Our Innovation Analysts recently looked into emerging technologies and up-and-coming startups in the automotive industry. As innovations in this industry are numerous and there is a large number of startups working on a wide variety of solutions, we decided to share some of our insights with you. Let’s take a look at promising connected car startups in the automotive industry.
Global Startup Heat Map highlights 5 out of 300 Connected Car Startups
Through the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering over 3 790 000+ startups & scaleups globally, we identified 300 connected car startups. The Global Startup Heat Map below highlights the startups you should watch as well as the geo-distribution of all 300 startups & scaleups we analyzed for this research.
Based on the heat map, we see high startup activity in Europe and the USA, followed by Israel. These connected car technology companies work on solutions ranging from V2X and cybersecurity to V2I and IoT.
Top Connected Car Companies
Connexion – Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
Opening the list of three-letter acronyms in the automotive industry is the IoT. Short for the Internet of Things, it becomes the Internet of Vehicles for the automotive industry. This technology plays a significant role in advancing the development of connected vehicles.
Melbourne-based IoT startup Connexion leverages the Internet of Vehicles to build cloud-based telematics. The startup also offers fleet management and music infotainment solutions.
HAAS Alert – Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V)
As covered in the Automotive Innovation Map, vehicle-to-vehicle technologies are an answer to the coordination challenge of manned and autonomous vehicles while also easing the way toward smart cities.
V2V startup HAAS Alert delivers V2V-enabled safety solutions. It alerts users by sending real-time data to autonomous and connected vehicles.
Savari – Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)
Introducing a new era of intelligent transport systems (ITS), automotive startups offer V2X or vehicle-to-everything technologies. These allow the exchange of information between connected vehicles as well as between vehicle and infrastructure entities.
Savari, a Californian startup, develops software and hardware solutions for car manufacturers to equip vehicles with Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) sensors and V2X applications.
Sensefields – Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I)
To fully function, connected vehicles must communicate and exchange data with smart road infrastructure. Vehicle-to-infrastructure solutions that allow cars to communicate with traffic lights, roadway signage, or rail grade crossings in real-time.
V2I startup Sensefields’ magnetic wireless sensor technology collects and processes traffic data and monitors a vehicle’s behavior to achieve this.
Upstream – Cybersecurity
The automotive future is becoming noticeably more connected. This puts a vast amount of personal and sensitive data at high risk of cyberattacks.
Startup Upstream supports corporations to mitigate connectivity risks. It provides automotive cybersecurity security for smart mobility solutions, protecting connected and autonomous vehicles from cyber threats.
Discover All Connected Car Companies
The automotive startups showcased in this report are only a small sample of all startups we identified through our data-driven startup scouting approach. Download our free Automotive Innovation Report for a broad overview of the industry or get in touch for quick & exhaustive research on the latest technologies & emerging solutions that will impact your company!
