Tagged: automotive
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Velcro Companies
Velcro Companies is the maker of the original VELCRO Brand hook-and-loop fastener, invented by Swiss engineer George de Mestral after studying burrs under a microscope in the 1940s. From its U.S. base in Manchester, New Hampshire, the privately held firm designs and manufactures thousands of fastening variants - from basic fabric closures to injection-molded plastics, high-temperature retention systems and medical-grade straps - serving customers across medical, aerospace, automotive, military, industrial, footwear, packaging and consumer markets in roughly seven countries.
The Car That Learned to Explain Itself
BMW AG modernized its Mobile Data Recorder (MDR) telemetry system on Microsoft Azure, deploying a multi-agent AI solution that lets engineers query 5-10 terabytes of weekly test-vehicle data in natural language. Built with Microsoft Foundry, the Microsoft Agent Framework, Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Cosmos DB, the system accelerates vehicle test-data analysis twelvefold, delivers insights in seconds to minutes rather than hours or days, and gives more than 100 engineers direct access to data that once required IT specialists.
Commsignia
Commsignia is a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology company that builds the software stacks, on-board units, roadside units and cloud platforms that let cars, road infrastructure and traffic operators talk to one another. Founded in Hungary in 2012 and now headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company supplies standards-compliant C-V2X and DSRC solutions used by automakers, road operators and departments of transportation across more than 20 countries, with the goal of reducing collisions and smoothing traffic flow under the banner 'Trust for the road ahead.'
Lantronix
Lantronix is an Irvine, California-based global provider of secure IoT and remote environment management solutions that combine intelligent hardware, connectivity, software-as-a-service and engineering services. Founded in 1989 and publicly traded on Nasdaq as LTRX, the company builds device servers, IoT gateways, cellular routers, console servers and PoE switches, paired with cloud management platforms like Percepxion and ConsoleFlow, to help organizations connect, compute, comprehend and control equipment at the edge across automotive, industrial, smart city, defense and enterprise IT markets.
Ettifos
Ettifos is a South Korea-based, 5G-focused V2X (vehicle-to-everything) company building the communication layer that lets cars, roadside infrastructure, and pedestrians exchange safety and traffic data in real time. Its flagship SIRIUS platform uses a software-defined modem that can switch between LTE-V2X and 5G-V2X with a software update, and its plug-and-play V2X-AIR onboard unit brings standards-compliant connectivity to both new and existing vehicles. Founded in 2018, the company works with partners like Keysight, Autotalks, Audi, and Kapsch TrafficCom, and closed a Series B round in 2025 to scale a C-V2X hardware accelerator chip and expand into U.S. and European markets.
Flow Engineering
Flow Engineering builds an AI-native requirements and systems-engineering platform that lets complex hardware teams design, build, test, and iterate at software speed. At its core is a connected 'systems graph' that keeps requirements, CAD, code, simulations, tests, and certification artifacts in one live system of record - with AI agents running impact analysis and keeping everything aligned. Founded by mechanical engineer Pari Singh, Flow is used by companies like Rivian, Joby Aviation, Astranis, Stoke Space, and Figure, and raised a $23M Series A led by Sequoia in October 2025.
Mauna Kea Semiconductors Corporation
Mauna Kea Semiconductors (MKSemi) is a Silicon Valley fabless chip company building what it calls the world's lowest-power ultra-wideband (UWB) technology - the short-range radio that lets phones, wearables, cars and IoT devices know precisely where they are and which direction they're pointing, down to a few centimeters. Founded in 2019 by semiconductor veterans and headquartered in Cupertino/San Jose with engineering hubs across China, MKSemi sells UWB chips, modules and SDKs, headlined by its highly integrated MK8000 SoC, to device OEMs and ODMs chasing precise location, secure ranging and radar-style sensing on coin-cell batteries.
Nullmax
Nullmax is an AI company building vision-only, map-free autonomous driving software for mass-produced cars. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2016 by former Tesla Autopilot engineer Lei Xu and headquartered in Shanghai, it develops MaxDrive, a chip- and sensor-agnostic driving stack, and Nullmax Intelligence (NI), an end-to-end, multimodal system that reads the road with cameras instead of lidar or high-definition maps. Its technology ships in production vehicles from major Chinese automakers.
U POWER Tech
U POWER Tech is an electric-vehicle technology company building the UP Super Board, a mass-producible 'skateboard' chassis-by-wire that packages propulsion, steering, braking, suspension, thermal management and Level 2+ ADAS into a single plug-and-play platform. By decoupling the chassis from the vehicle body, U POWER lets automakers and fleet operators design custom EVs - vans, pickups, SUVs, specialty vehicles - on top of a validated base, cutting development time by at least six months. Founded in 2021 with offices in Silicon Valley (Sunnyvale) and Shanghai, the company sells to OEMs and commercial fleets and has expanded aggressively into North America with products like the UP VAN for last-mile delivery.
Visure Solutions
Visure Solutions is a specialized requirements management and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software company founded in 2002. Its all-in-one Visure Requirements ALM Platform helps teams in safety-critical and business-critical industries - aerospace and defense, automotive, medical devices, railways, energy and finance - capture, trace, verify and manage requirements alongside test management, risk management, change management and standards compliance. In recent years Visure has layered AI across the platform, launching the Vivia virtual assistant and an 'Engineering Intelligence' MCP server that lets AI agents work inside governed engineering workflows.
Daptic (formerly DiploAI)
Daptic (formerly DiploAI) is a New York-based startup building AI-powered regulatory intelligence software for global manufacturers. Its platform monitors more than 10,000 regulatory sources across 200+ jurisdictions, flags relevant changes within 24 hours of publication, and turns them into product-specific compliance requirements - cutting the manual research that eats into engineering and compliance teams. Founded in 2023 by MIT alumni Baptiste Bouvier and Hannah Collins, the company got its start helping electric-vehicle and automotive makers keep pace with the roughly 1,000 regulatory updates issued worldwide each day, and has since broadened to manufacturers of all kinds.
Laser Wire Solutions
Laser Wire Solutions is a Welsh precision-engineering company that builds laser systems and robots to strip, cut and process the tiniest, most delicate wires on Earth - the kind found inside catheters, MRI coils, EV harnesses and spacecraft. Founded in 2011 by Oxford-trained physicist Paul Taylor, the Pontypridd firm turned a niche insight (that lasers strip fine wire more cleanly than blades) into award-winning machines and contract-manufacturing services now used by medical OEMs, aerospace and defense primes, data-center builders and even Tesla.
MacLean-Fogg
MacLean-Fogg is a fourth-generation, family-owned American manufacturer founded in 1925 that grew from a single railroad lock nut into a global maker of fasteners, engineered components, plastics, and additive-manufacturing tooling. Headquartered in Mundelein, Illinois, the roughly $1.2 billion-a-year enterprise supplies the automotive, heavy-truck, electric utility, telecom, and industrial markets from dozens of plants across North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2025 it marked its 100th anniversary still owned and led by the MacLean family.
TERN
TERN is an Austin-based startup building IDPS (Independently Derived Positioning System), an AI-powered, software-only alternative to GPS. Instead of relying on satellite signals that can be jammed, spoofed, or blocked by tall buildings and tunnels, TERN's AI reads the sensors already inside vehicles and phones - accelerometers, gyroscopes, speedometers - and matches that motion against existing map data to figure out exactly where you are. Founded by AI engineers and former U.S. special operations personnel, TERN serves automakers, delivery fleets, emergency services, and defense customers who cannot afford to lose their location when the signal drops.
Voyomotive
Voyomotive is a Florida-based connected-car company that turns almost any vehicle built since 1996 into a smart, data-rich machine. Through its VOYO OBD-II hardware and a cloud platform of APIs, firmware and apps, it pulls OEM-grade data - engine health, battery life, tire pressure, fault codes, location - and delivers it to drivers, fleets, insurers and repair shops. Products like VOYOLink and VOYOHub let independent repair shops diagnose vehicles remotely and build recurring revenue, while VOYOTrak handles multi-vehicle fleet tracking.
Michael Malakhov
Michael Malakhov is the founder and CEO of Carpool Logistics, an Atlanta-based technology company that modernizes how cars move across the supply chain by bundling vehicle shipments to cut costs and emissions. After nearly two decades in freight and automotive logistics - 16 years at C.H. Robinson and an executive role at ACERTUS - he launched Carpool in 2021. The company has shipped more than 150,000 vehicles for over 1,800 clients and raised a $12M Series A in 2025 led by Wavecrest Growth Partners with participation from CarMax. An immigrant who says he has lived under communist, socialist, and American systems, Malakhov is a vocal believer that 'the American dream is alive and well.'
Qnovo
Qnovo is a Milpitas, California software company that makes lithium-ion batteries smarter. Its intelligent battery management platform - powering SpectralX adaptive fast charging and SentinelX safety diagnostics - is embedded in more than 150 million smartphones and increasingly in EVs from the world's top automakers, helping prevent fires, extend range, and stretch battery life.
TAO Digital Solutions
TAO Digital Solutions is a Santa Clara, California-based IT services and consulting firm founded in 2022 by serial entrepreneur Rajkumar (Raj) Velagapudi. It helps enterprises with product engineering, managed services, cybersecurity, payment solutions, cloud, data and AI-driven transformation. Backed by a 2024 growth investment from Vesper Company, TAO has scaled to roughly 3,000-3,650 professionals across offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, and has pursued aggressive M&A to deepen capabilities in medtech, automotive and life sciences.
TDK InvenSense
TDK InvenSense designs the tiny MEMS sensors that let machines feel the physical world - motion, sound, pressure and ultrasound. Founded in San Jose in 2003 and acquired by Japan's TDK Corporation in 2017, it pioneered the integrated 6-axis IMU and ships motion, microphone and ultrasonic sensors into smartphones, wearables, drones, cars, robots and industrial systems. Its work pairs CMOS-MEMS hardware with proprietary fusion firmware and increasingly edge AI, turning raw physics into usable signals for billions of devices.
Turo
Turo is the world's largest peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace, connecting people who want to rent a car with everyday car owners who list their vehicles. Instead of a fleet of identical sedans behind an airport counter, Turo offers roughly 340,000 cars across 1,600 makes and models - from electric Teslas and pickup trucks to convertibles and classic exotics - bookable through an app or website. The platform handles transactions, host protection plans, liability insurance and roadside assistance, letting owners earn income from idle cars and guests find the exact vehicle they want, often delivered to the airport or their door.
Divergent
Divergent Technologies is a Torrance, California digital-manufacturing company behind DAPS, the Divergent Adaptive Production System - an end-to-end platform that pairs AI-driven generative design, metal 3D printing, and software-defined robotic assembly to produce complex automotive, aerospace, and defense structures without part-specific tooling. The same system that builds the record-setting Czinger 21C hypercar now turns out missile airframes and drone aerostructures for U.S. defense primes.
Gamma Alloys Inc
Gamma Alloys is a Santa Clarita, California advanced-materials company that reinforces aluminum with homogeneously distributed nano-ceramic particles to create metal matrix composites that are stiffer, stronger, more wear-resistant and stable across a wider temperature range than conventional aluminum. Its materials ship as wrought stock (bar, tube, plate), additive powders and additive wire for metal 3D printing, and are aimed at aerospace, defense, automotive, motorsports and even luxury goods. Founded in 2008 and led by CEO Mark Sommer, the company drew an investment from Boeing HorizonX Ventures in 2017 and partners with precision manufacturer Del West USA.
Impossible Objects, Inc.
Impossible Objects is a Northbrook, Illinois manufacturer of industrial 3D printers built around its proprietary CBAM (Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing) process. Instead of melting plastic filament, CBAM stacks long-fiber sheets of carbon fiber or fiberglass, inkjet-prints each layer with a fluid, bonds them with high-performance polymer powders like PEEK and nylon, then compresses and heats the stack into a solid composite part. The result is parts the company says are stronger, more dimensionally accurate, and printed up to 15x faster than competing methods - aimed at aerospace, defense, automotive, and electronics customers that need composite parts at production volume.
Bryan Frist
Bryan Frist is the CEO and co-founder of Yoshi Mobility, a Nashville-based automotive services startup that began by delivering gasoline to cars in San Francisco and has grown into a fleet maintenance, virtual vehicle inspection, and mobile EV charging company backed by General Motors, ExxonMobil, Bridgestone, and Y Combinator. A Princeton and Harvard Business School graduate and son of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, he also runs the early-stage investment firm Friale Ventures and has raised more than $90M for Yoshi at a valuation north of $200M.
Seurat Technologies
Seurat Technologies is a Massachusetts-based contract metal manufacturer built around Area Printing, a laser powder bed fusion process invented at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Instead of melting metal powder one point at a time, Seurat uses millions of tiny laser points to print entire areas at once, decoupling resolution from speed. The company doesn't sell printers; it runs its own clean-energy print factories and sells finished parts at costs meant to rival casting, forging, and machining, with the goal of reshoring high-volume metal manufacturing and cutting its carbon footprint.
Zeromatter
Zeromatter builds the simulation infrastructure that autonomous-systems companies use to develop, test and validate their products before they ever touch the real world. Founded by former Tesla Autopilot simulation lead Ian Glow, its platform combines high-fidelity sensor simulation, automatic environment generation, multi-agent co-simulation frameworks, execution infrastructure and developer tooling into one system - aimed at making simulation a default tool for autonomy, aerospace, automotive, agriculture, drones and green energy.
Axion Ray
Axion Ray (operating as Axion) builds an AI 'observability command center' that helps the world's largest manufacturers catch product quality and safety problems months before they turn into recalls. Founded in 2021 by former McKinsey AI strategist Daniel First, the company fuses fragmented, unstructured field data - service tickets, dealership notes, call-center transcripts, sensor telemetry - into early-warning intelligence for engineering teams. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, RTX Ventures, Amplo and Inspired Capital with $25M raised, Axion works with manufacturers across aerospace, automotive, medtech and consumer goods.
AAA Mountain West Group
AAA Mountain West Group is the not-for-profit auto club formerly known as AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, it serves AAA members across seven western states - Northern California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska - with roadside assistance, insurance, travel planning, financial services and discounts. Rooted in a 1900 gathering of motoring enthusiasts in San Francisco, it is one of the largest clubs in the national AAA federation.
Del Grande Dealer Group
Del Grande Dealer Group (DGDG) is the largest family-owned automotive group in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1998 with a single dealership, it now operates a portfolio of franchised new- and used-car dealerships across Northern California, representing more than a dozen brands. DGDG pairs a high-volume retail operation with a culture obsession - it has been named a Bay Area Top Workplace for more than a decade - and a digital-first buying experience it markets as No Brainer Pricing and No Brainer Checkout.
Lucid Motors
Lucid Motors is an American luxury electric-vehicle maker based in Newark, California, building the longest-range production EVs in the world. Its in-house powertrain and battery engineering deliver class-leading efficiency in the Lucid Air sedan and the Gravity SUV, backed heavily by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.