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MOTOR Information and the price of the wrong part
A Hearst newsletter became a business selling the details that keep repair shops and truck fleets moving. Its most revealing product is a relationship: this part, that vehicle, the right job.
Autodata sells the minutes between a fault and a fix
The former manual publisher built a business around the information mechanics need next. Its journey from printed pages to repair software explains why a wiring diagram can be worth paying for every month.
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.
Motorq
Motorq is a connected vehicle intelligence platform that ingests embedded OEM telematics data, runs analytics and AI on top, and ships it to fleets, automakers, insurers, and dealers via APIs and a portal - no aftermarket hardware required.
Arun Rajagopalan
Arun Rajagopalan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Motorq, a San Francisco-based connected vehicle data platform that gives enterprises direct access to OEM-embedded vehicle data without any aftermarket hardware. With a career arc that spans vehicle control systems engineering at Robert Bosch, strategy consulting at Booz & Company, and big-data leadership at Mu Sigma, Arun founded Motorq in 2016 to solve a deceptively simple problem: cars are generating enormous amounts of data, but that data is locked inside hundreds of incompatible systems. Motorq unlocks it, normalizes it, and pipes it to fleets, insurers, and OEM dealers through clean APIs. The company has raised $89.3M in total funding, including a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners in February 2022, and now has partnerships with 10 of the top global OEMs covering more than 51 million vehicles.