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The Company Teaching Trucks, Forklifts and Fridges to Talk
Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket sold their last company to Cisco for $1.2 billion. Then they went looking for the least digital corner of the economy - the trucks, warehouses and job sites that run the physical world - and wired it up.
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.
Peter Yorke
Peter Yorke is the CEO and co-founder of Voyomotive, a San Francisco connected-car company whose VOYO device turns an ordinary car's OBD-II port into a smartphone-controlled second brain. A native Californian who has worn the hats of scientist, venture capitalist, and serial entrepreneur, Yorke built a platform that locks doors by proximity, reads manufacturer fault codes, logs trips, and crowdsources road-hazard alerts. VOYO swept the 2015 SEMA show awards and exhibited as one of the most advanced after-market connected-car systems at CES 2016.
Avneesh Agrawal
Avneesh Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Netradyne, the San Diego AI company that turns dashcams into a real-time safety coach for commercial drivers. After more than a decade at Qualcomm, where he led 4G LTE research, ran corporate R&D, and served as president of Qualcomm India and South Asia, he left in 2015 to chase a convergence he saw coming: cheap camera sensors, edge computing, and deep learning arriving at the same moment. Netradyne's Driver-i platform now analyzes billions of miles of driving and reduces accidents by 30 to 50 percent. In January 2025, a $90 million Series D led by Point72 pushed the company past a $1 billion valuation. A Stanford PhD with more than 150 US patents, Agrawal builds at the intersection of research and the real world.
Motive
Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) is a San Francisco-based technology company building an AI-powered platform for the physical economy. It helps companies that run trucks, equipment, and field workers manage safety, operations, compliance, and spend in one system - combining edge-AI dashcams, GPS telematics, and fintech tools used by nearly 100,000 businesses from small fleets to Fortune 500 enterprises like Halliburton, Komatsu, and Maersk.
LocoNav
LocoNav is a full-stack fleet management platform out of Gurgaon that combines GPS tracking, video telematics, IoT sensors and AI-driven driver safety into one dashboard. It serves more than 50 countries and operates across the emerging markets that legacy fleet software politely ignored.
Vidit Jain
Vidit Jain is the co-founder of LocoNav, a full-stack AI-powered fleet management platform serving 500,000+ vehicle owners across 50+ countries. A mechanical-engineer-turned-software-builder, he pivoted from early-stage stints at ClearTax and Bizzy to co-found LocoNav in 2016 alongside Shridhar Gupta. The company has raised $47 million (including a $37M Series B in 2021) and tracks over 5 million vehicles globally, positioning itself as the emerging-market answer to Samsara. Vidit also angel-invests in startups and serves on one board.