Latest Startups & Venturing – Page 3
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ArticleDaimler joins VW in making Berlin its digital home
Daimler has opened a Berlin office for its MBition digital subsidiary, making it the latest carmaker to make the German capital a digital innovation center
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ArticleAt Porsche, autonomous driving enters the workshop
Porsche is working a Berlin startup to test virtually how its cars can drive themselves to lifting platforms in the workshop.
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ArticleBMW to open tech scouting office in Tel Aviv
Startup Israel Tel Aviv will be part of a global R&D network BMW is operating across 8 countries (Photo: BMW) BMW plans to open a technology scouting office in Tel Aviv, focusing on new technologies and cooperation with regional startup companies. The German premium car group will ...
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ArticleRobotics company Nuro raises close to $1 billion
Nuro is signing partnership deals with a range of companies to test its autonomous delivery vehicle (Photo: Nuro) Nuro, a California-based self-driving vehicle startup, said it has raised $940 million in financing from the Softbank Vision Fund. Including investments from other companies, Nuro said it has now raised ...
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ArticleVW's Senger to become board member for software
Christian Senger will take a board seat representing software Christian Senger is set to take charge of all software-related matters at Volkswagen Group. Senger, who currently heads the VW brand’s electrification strategy, will take charge of vehicle software at the carmaker’s core division in a new management ...
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FeaturePSA: "On the mobility side, North America is still the Wild West"
PSA’s head of North America, Larry Dominique, talks to automotiveIT International about why it is first returning to the US as a mobility provider and tech company.
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ArticleAmazon enters the driverless race by backing Aurora
Reports in the Financial Times and Bloomberg say Amazon joined a second round funding for AV startup Aurora.
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FeatureHow an intranet of things at BMW Group is driving digital production for its mixed drivetrain future
Christian Patron is head of innovation, digitalisation, data analytics at BMW Group. Paul Fisher spoke to him about how BMW’s culture of innovation is pushing further into creating a more agile production process.
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ArticleFord tests Gravity Sketch software to speed up car design processes
Source: Ford Gravity Sketch lets car designers use 3D tools in the early stages of their work Ford Motor says it is the first automaker to work with Gravity Sketch, a 3D virtual reality tool that allows car designers to speed up their work. The software, built ...
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ArticleAnalysis: Data opportunities abound in complex new-mobility environment
Participants at a conference about monetizing car data hosted here by the German business daily Handelsblatt said the world of 21st century personal mobility is characterized by growing complexity, new players, new business models and rapidly changing consumer requirements.
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ArticlePanic in Detroit? More a strategic rethink on tech investment
SBD researcher Alex Oyler talks to automotiveIT International about the connectivity trends transforming the automotive industry
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FeatureSubscription services are slow to take off in US market, but players say growth will come
By some accounts, subscription is on the verge of doing for the whole economy what Netflix and Spotify have done to DVDs and CDs — supplant ownership with access to an ever-refreshing supply for a fee. The auto industry is not immune to the trend, but so far the traditional ...
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ArticleElectrification gains traction as OEMs bid to eat into Tesla's lead
Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, Ford and GM have upped the ante on electrification programmes. The incumbents are joined by China based start-ups Byton, Nio and Rivian and others.
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ArticleMapping for Mercedes
A tech start-up is helping Mercedes-Benz track cars at its Tuscaloosa plant, as well as assisting dealerships.
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ArticleHyundai to show "walking car" concept at Las Vegas tech show
More details on the Hyundai Elevate study will be unveiled at CES next week (Photo: Hyundai) Hyundai Motor will show a “walking car” concept at next week’s CES high-tech exhibition. The futuristic study is further evidence how the Las Vegas high-tech gathering is increasingly being used to promote ...
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ArticleOEM and Tier One venture divisions invest in start-ups: BMW for machine intelligence and cybersecurity, Faurecia for cognitive science, Toyota for robotics
BMW i Ventures in Silicon Valley BMW’s i Ventures capital fund, based in Mountain View, California [HQ pictured], is investing in two-year-old machine intelligence company Graphcore, based in Bristol, UK, and with offices in London, Oslo, Palo Alto and Beijing. Graphcore is said to be developing a ...
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ArticleAudi’s AID subsidiary to partner with Luminar on LiDAR for autonomous vehicles, aims for 2021 deployment
Image: Luminar Audi’s AID (Autonomous Intelligent Driving) subsidiary, formed in 2017 to supply autonomous technologies to the Volkswagen Group brands, will leverage LiDAR technology from Luminar for its first on-road deployments of autonomous vehicles in 2021. It will source forward-facing high-fidelity and long-range LiDAR from Luminar, which is ...
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ArticleBMW ups the pace on industry 4.0 technology
BMW Group is to expand its use of industry 4.0 innovations in its production logistics.
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FeatureThe future of auto cyber security lies in a centralised platform
OSR’s Orit Shifman explains how to protect a car from attacks with AI and single digital control center
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ArticleTwelve important things we learned from Automobility 2018 in Los Angeles
The top trends to emerge for automotive and mobility technology from a key conference at the Los Angeles Auto Show
