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The Car Dealer’s Paper Folder Became a Data Business - Here’s What Operators Can Steal
iPacket began by replacing a 20-page folder nobody enjoyed assembling. Four thousand dealer partners later, its real product is not the packet - it is the proof that helps a car, a salesperson and a price survive scrutiny.
The Startup That Turned 73 Million Ignored Recall Letters Into a Money Machine
A Marine-turned-car-dealer got stuck with 42 recall notices and no phone numbers. His fix became a platform that has booked over a million VINs and turned the auto industry's most-ignored paperwork into a service department growth engine.
OEC Turned the Parts Counter Into Infrastructure
Born to replace phone-and-fax parts orders, OEC now sits between the companies that build vehicles and the people who put them back on the road - turning scattered inventory, repair procedures and paperwork into one connected workflow.
Solera Holdings, LLC.
Solera sits behind the moments when a car is claimed, repaired, sold, tracked, or returned to the road. Its advantage is not one famous app, but a deep reservoir of vehicle data wired into the daily work of insurers, shops, dealers, and fleets.
Excelfore Corporation
Excelfore Corporation is a Fremont, California software company that builds the connectivity layer for software-defined vehicles. Its flagship eSync platform delivers secure over-the-air (OTA) updates and bi-directional data pipelines between the cloud and every electronic control unit inside a vehicle, while its in-vehicle networking stacks (Automotive Ethernet, TSN/AVB) and eDatX data-aggregation and edge-AI products round out an end-to-end cloud-to-edge toolkit. Founded by the brothers behind MARGI Systems, Excelfore helped create the industry-wide eSync Alliance and today has technology deployed across more than 17 million vehicles worldwide.
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies (RV Tech) is a 50/50 joint venture launched in November 2024 that fuses Rivian's software and electrical-hardware know-how with Volkswagen Group's global manufacturing scale. Co-headquartered in Palo Alto, it builds the zonal electrical architecture, operating systems, in-vehicle AI, and cloud-connectivity stack that will power next-generation software-defined vehicles across Volkswagen, Audi, Scout, Rivian, and more - aiming to make every new car smarter, cheaper to build, and continuously upgradable over the air.
Ottometric
Ottometric is a Waltham, Massachusetts software company that uses AI to automate the validation and training of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous-vehicle software. Its platform distills petabyte-scale, multimodal sensor data into decision-ready KPIs, cutting validation cost and time by more than half for the Tier-1 suppliers and OEMs that build the cars' eyes and reflexes.
STRADVISION
STRADVISION is a Korean automotive AI company building SVNet, a deep-learning vision perception software that lets cars see and understand the road in real time. Its lightweight networks run on low-power automotive chips and ship in production vehicles from more than a dozen global automakers.
Sonatus
Sonatus is a Sunnyvale-based automotive software company building the AI-powered, software-defined vehicle. Its Digital Dynamics platform - including Sonatus Updater, Automator, Collector AI, and AI Director - lets automakers deploy, monitor, and update vehicle software and edge AI models without rewriting code. Sonatus technology is in production in over 6 million vehicles, including models from Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis.