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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based Founder operating in the Automotive space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jonathan Matus
Founder & CEO of Zendrive
Jonathan Matus Prior to Redpoint, Jonathan Matus spent 6 years at Facebook and Google, where he’s been focused on various mobile and speech-recognition projects. At Google, one of the early Android team members, Jonathan managed product marketing for the platform’s software releases and device launches globally. During his tenure, the OS grew from zero to global best-selling mobile platform. In his role as Head of Product Marketing in Asia Pacific Jonathan lived in Tokyo and jumpstarted regional device launches and relationships all over Asia. Jonathan received the Google Founders Award and Android Founders Award in recognition for his contributions.
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Johnson Shan
CEO & Co-Founder of Black Sesame Technologies
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About Black Sesame Technologies: Black Sesame Technologies is an AI digital imaging technology firm that creates solutions for real-world AI challenges.
Aarjav Trivedi
CEO and Co-Founder of Ridecell
Aarjav is the founder and CEO of RideCell. Before RideCell, Aarjav worked in engineering at SpiDynamics (Acquired by HP) and as a research engineer at CipherTrust and Secure Computing (Acquired by McAfee) where he helped invent and ship security systems used by over 40% of the Fortune 500 as well as the Pentagon. Aarjav has a Masters degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a Bachelors in in Computer Science from University of Mumbai.
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About Ridecell: Ridecell provides car-sharing, ride-sharing, short-term leases, and autonomous vehicle fleet services for car rental companies.
ArunKumar Elangovan
Co-Founder of Ridecell
ArunKumar Elangovan is the Co-Founder of Ridecell.
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About Ridecell: Ridecell provides car-sharing, ride-sharing, short-term leases, and autonomous vehicle fleet services for car rental companies.
Scott Painter
Founder of Fair
Scott Painter is the founder and former CEO of Fair and TrueCar. He is a serial entrepreneur having incorporated 37 companies and having raised over $1.25 billion in debt and equity capital for those businesses over the last 20 years. His primary focus and passion is auto-retail and he was founder and CEO of CarsDirect.com and Build-To-Order as well as having been an early advisor to numerous automotive businesses including Tesla. He was an Army interrogator and then attended West Point where he studied political science and systems engineering. While at West Point he served as class president before transferring to UC Berkeley where he studied political economics. Prior to graduation he dropped out to sell his first auto-related start-up, AUTOAccess, an electronic database of used cars for sale. Mr. Painter was an IdeaLab CEO and an eCompanies CEO.His other ventures include Advertise.com, SharesPost, PriceLock, CarsDirect.com, US Digital Gaming, Zag.com and Brighthouse. Mr. Painter is married and lives in Los Angeles with his four children.
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About BrightHouse, BrightHouse, Fair: Fair is a car leasing company that is revolutionizing the car-as-a-service concept.
Jennifer Parke
Co-Founder of Fair
For over fifteen years Jennifer has used her background in art direction and design to create advertising platforms and help set the vision for global brands like Apple,Cisco, Old Navy and HBO to name a few. And she’s worked at agencies across the country, including Chiat, Deutsch, BBDO and Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Her entrepreneurial smarts and innovative spirit have also led to the creation of several companies including: Sugar Shots, an organic liquid sugar alternative, SubGiant, a motion graphics company that served as a creative collective helping usher students into the business and Boombang Inc., an innovative think tank where Jen partnered to help with product development and branding. Her creativity and leadership have helped her break barriers in the business; and she’s honored to be part of the 3% of women ECDs in the world of advertising.
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About Fair: Fair is a car leasing company that is revolutionizing the car-as-a-service concept.
Craig Nehamen
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Fair
Craig has a BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. He has a passion for creating new financial technology products. Previously Craig was head of strategy and corporate development at Westlake Financial Services, a national auto finance company.
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About Fair: Fair is a car leasing company that is revolutionizing the car-as-a-service concept.
Boone Park
Co-Founder, General Counsel & Board Memb of Fair
Boone Park is one of the nation͛s most knowledgeable experts on auto regulatory compliance.He comes to Fair from TrueCar, where he played an integral role in all aspects of legal operations. Prior to TrueCar, Boone practiced at the law firm of Alston & Bird. He graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif from the University of Kentucky College of Law.
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About Fair, TrueCar: Fair is a car leasing company that is revolutionizing the car-as-a-service concept.
Michael Patterson
Founder & CEO of Battle motors
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About Battle motors: Battle motors is a technology leader in the electrification of commercial vehicles.
Dan Hunter
Co Founder of Yoshi
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About Yoshi: Yoshi fills a vehicle’s tank wherever a driver wanted instead of the owner having to stop at a gas station.
Michia Rohrssen
Co-Founder, CEO of Prodigy
Michia Rohrssen is CEO at Prodigy, a growing Auto Startup.
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About Prodigy, Upstart: Prodigy digitizes the process to save customers’ time while improving trust and satisfaction.
Luke Kathol
COO & Co-Founder of Urgently
Luke Kathol is a Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Urgently, Inc
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About Urgently: Urgently features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands and roadside assistance professionals.
Andy Moss
Founder and CEO of Roadster
Andy Moss is CEO at Fabkids.
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Trey Matteson
Co-Founder of Roadster
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Vincent Lo
Co-Founder of Roadster
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Mike Lenz
Co-Founder of Roadster
Mike Lenz is Vice President of Engineering at POPSUGAR. In this role, Mike oversees engineering for POPSUGAR’s commerce properties and mobile applications, which include ShopStyle by POPSUGAR and DesignerApparel. Mike was a co-founder of ShopStyle, which POPSUGAR acquired in 2007. Prior to POPSUGAR, Mike held several senior technology and management roles at Netscape, Apple, VeriSign and various startups. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in symbolic systems and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Mika Kozma
Co-Founder of Roadster
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Isaac Deutsch
Co-Founder & CEO of WaiveCar
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About REEF, WaiveCar: Waive’s goal is to bring the cost of mobility to zero by utilizing cutting edge ad tech.
Christopher Wendel
President and Co-Founder of Volta Charging
Chris is a global finance executive with 20 years of experience running large sales teams and raising capital in equity markets. The bulk of this time was with Goldman Sachs in the United States, Germany, and Japan. While on sabbatical in Hawaii, Chris stumbled upon Volta stations at the Kailua Whole Foods. He soon after became an investor and joined Volta as partner and CFO in 2012. Chris lives in Napa with his wife and three children, loves flying, and will challenge you to a tennis match any day of the week. He and his wife each drive a Tesla Model S in fire engine red and metallic blue.
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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.
Scott Mercer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Volta Charging
Scott Mercer is the founder and CEO of Volta, an electric vehicle charging network with the most-utilized stations in the US. An entrepreneur fascinated by both cars and future-focused technology, Scott founded Volta to bridge the gap between electric vehicles and the mainstream. The network delivers free electric vehicle charging in areas where stations are most needed, as determined by Volta’s proprietary machine learning algorithms. Under Scott’s leadership, Volta is experiencing consecutive 3x year-over-year revenue and footprint growth. Scott launched Volta in 2010 in Hawaii, where he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Hawaii Venture Capital, 40 Under 40 by Pacific Business News and Hawaii Business’ 20 for the Next 20. Previously, Scott ran a business buying, restoring and selling vintage cars in his early 20s. He sold a restored 1967 Jaguar XKE to seed the beginnings of Volta, which has now raised $62 million in funding. Scott currently rides an electric motorcycle, drives an electric Fiat, and occasionally, a 1971 Alfa Romeo.
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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.
Junwei Bao
Co-Founder & CEO of Innovusion
During his career, he has spent nearly 20 years developing innovative technologies and products in the precision instrument and optical sensor space. Prior to founding Innovusion, Junwei led the Sensor and Hardware Team for the Autonomous Driving Business Unit at Baidu. In other previous roles, he co-founded Timbre Technologies, Inc., the startup that invented and productized OCD, the “microscale LiDAR” for semiconductor manufacturing, and led Tokyo Electron’s metrology division in Silicon Valley. Junwei holds a B.S. in Physics from Peking University. He received his M.S. and PhD in Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley. He has more than 40 patents in the area of optical metrology and semiconductor process control.
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About Innovusion: Innovusion is an autonomous vehicle LiDAR technology developer.
Yimin Li
Co-Founder & CTO of Innovusion
Yimin Li currently works as the Co-Founder and CTO for Innovusion.
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About Innovusion: Innovusion is an autonomous vehicle LiDAR technology developer.
Dave Grannan
Co-Founder & CEO of Light
Prior to Light, Dave was CEO of Vlingo, the first natural language speech recognition service for mobile phones. Vlingo provided speech recognition for the first Siri app and powered Samsung’s S-Voice product. Nuance Communications acquired Vlingo in 2012. He previously held leadership roles at Nokia, Sprint PCS, and Geoworks. He began his career in the US Marine Corps and holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Light: Light enables machines to see like humans using a camera-based perception platform that revolutionizes perception for ADAS/AV.
Donny Hall
Co-Founder & CEO of SureSale
Donny helped build successful SoCal tech companies including LowerMyBills.com, HomeLoanCenter.com and Leadpoint.com prior to building one of the largest DTC auto warranty sellers in the US which he sold to Innovative Aftermarket Systems.
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About SureSale: SureSale’s Certification as a Service platform and marketplace allow dealers and private sellers to certify and market used vehicles.
Michael Birch
Founder of Monkey Inferno
Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002. Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL in March 2008 for USD 850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. In June 2008, Michael invested in, and joined the board of MyStore.com along with Julian Lennon and Gordon Crawford. He is also an investor in Goodreads, a book oriented social network. Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself. Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.
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About 1% of Nothing, Birthday Alarm, Monkey Inferno, PROfounders Capital, The Battery: Monkey Inferno is a personal tech incubator that develops internet projects into successful businesses.
Chris Urmson
Co-Founder and CEO of Aurora
Chris Urmson is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Aurora, where he leads a world-class team in bringing self-driving technology to the transportation industry quickly, broadly, and safely. Over the last 15 years Chris has worked to advance self-driving technology and bring it to market. Chris helped found the self-driving car team at Alphabet and led the team for seven years. Prior, Chris was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, and was the technical director for the winning team of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Chris has a Ph.D in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Aurora: Aurora is a self-driving vehicle company providing a platform that brings software and data services to operate passenger vehicles.
Sterling Anderson
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Aurora
Sterling Anderson is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Aurora, the company delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. A longtime developer of autonomous vehicle technology, Sterling developed the MIT Intelligent Co-Pilot, a shared autonomy framework that paved the way for broad advances in cooperative control of human-machine systems. In 2014, he joined Tesla, where he lead the design, development, and launch of the Tesla Model X, then led the team that delivered Tesla Autopilot. Sterling holds several patents and over a dozen publications in autonomous vehicle systems, and an MS and PhD from MIT.
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About Aurora: Aurora is a self-driving vehicle company providing a platform that brings software and data services to operate passenger vehicles.
Alex Rodrigues
CEO & Co-Founder of Embark Trucks
Embark is working to make the self-driving future a reality. While most of the spectacle has been around passenger vehicles, Embark is working to revolutionize $700 billion commercial trucking industry, the backbone of our economy. Commercial transport stands to reap untold benefits by deploying automated trucks – particularly during the “long haul” stretches. Alex studied Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
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About Embark Trucks: Embark develops self-driving truck technology designed for freight and logistic services.
Rodney Williams
Co-Founder | Chairman of LISNR
Rodney Williams is the co-founder of SoLo Funds and LISNR.
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About LISNR, LISNR, SoLo Funds: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Cameron Teitelman
Founder, Chairman, and head of admissions and oversee investment vehicles of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Cameron Teitelman is the Founder and Chairman of StartX, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that runs an accelerator for Stanford affiliated entrepreneurs. Under his management, StartX has supported more than 1,100+ founders building 500+ companies. StartX companies have raised over $3.3B to date. In 2013, the Stanford-StartX Fund was launched. To date, SSF has invested in 250 StartX companies across 400+ rounds, investing $130 million in capital.
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Dan Ha
Co-Founder, Sr. Managing Director of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Moncef Abbou
Founder of CurbStand
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About CurbStand: Seamless, cashless valet parking in Los Angeles. Pay & tip right from your phone.
Steve Jillings
Founder & CEO of Signal Automotive
Steve has more than 30 years of business-building experience, specifically in the areas of corporate finance, sales, marketing and technology. He has been responsible for eight startups throughout his career, taking them from inception to commercialization and in several cases leading to successful liquidity events. Most recently as CEO at TeleSign, Steve raised $79MM in growth capital and lead TeleSign to become the #1 Company in the Two Factor Authentication and Digital Identity category. Starting with 12 employees and single digit millions in revenue, TeleSign grew to 300 employees and more than $100MM in profitable annual revenue. Steve was also chairman and CEO of Vantage Media, an online digital marketing firm, where he and his investment partners raised $80MM to acquire in Vantage February 2007. Vantage Media grew into one of the largest performance-based online marketers in the country. As president and CEO of FrontBridge Technologies, Steve took the company from a startup to a global leader in SaaS email security services. Raising a total of $28MM of funding, this allowed the team to build a broad portfolio of services combined with the largest global distribution footprint in the email security category. This lead to the successful sale of FrontBridge to Microsoft in August 2005 for more than $200MM. Specialties: – Helping start-ups grow fast – Ensuring that the Go-To-Market strategy is the right one. – Raising money (I’ve raised more than $200m) – Product strategy – Sales and marketing strategy – Attracting the right people to win
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About Signal Automotive: Signal is a technology-enabled automotive wholesale platform that employs data to optimize wholesale dealer trades.
Sahas Katta
CEO + Founder of Smartcar
CEO of Smartcar.
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About Smartcar: Smartcar is the car API for developers. Our platform allows web and mobile apps to locate and unlock cars using simple HTTP requests.
Sanketh Katta
CTO & Founder of Smartcar
Sanketh Katta is a Founder and CTO at Smartcar.
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About Smartcar: Smartcar is the car API for developers. Our platform allows web and mobile apps to locate and unlock cars using simple HTTP requests.
Apeksha Kumavat
Co-Founder & Chief Engineer of Gatik
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About Gatik: Gatik is developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics.
Arjun Narang
Co-Founder & CTO of Gatik
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About Gatik: Gatik is developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics.
Gautam Narang
Co-Founder & CEO of Gatik
Gautam Narang is the CEO and co-founder of Gatik, developing Autonomous Vehicles for B2B Short-Haul Logistics.
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About Gatik: Gatik is developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics.
Robert Stefanski
Co-Founder and Managing Director of eLab Ventures
Robert Stefanski is an entrepreneur with deep operational and board experience in the software, mobile and Internet markets. He was on the founding management team of TIBCO Software, where he served as the Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, General Counsel and Secretary. As a member of TIBCO’s executive management team, Bob had broad responsibility for day to day business operations from its founding in 1997 to its emergence in the early 2000s as one of the leading enterprise infrastructure software companies in the world. TIBCO remains a world leader today in enterprise infrastructure software, with annual revenue exceeding $1 billion. Bob left TIBCO in 2008 to more actively pursue his passion as an advisor and board member for Silicon Valley early stage startups. He began his career as an attorney with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City, where he represented technology, media and entertainment companies in a broad range of matters. He joined Reuters 1996 as Director of Intellectual Property. He has also been involved with the UM Center for Entrepreneurship since its inception in 2007 and currently serves on its Board of Directors as well as being a mentor at the student startup incubator, TechArb. In addition to his work with Michigan eLab, he is a partner with the international law firm Reed Smith in its Silicon Valley office. Bob is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan Graduate School of Engineering. He has an undergraduate degree in computer science/mathematics from Northern Michigan
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About eLab Ventures: eLab Ventures is an early stage technology venture capital fund.
Rick Bolander
Co-Founder and Managing Director of eLab Ventures
Rick Bolander is a General Partner at Michigan eLab Venture Fund. Rick has been a private investor since 1988 launching Blue Sky Ventures, a real estate investment firm, and entering the venture capital industry in 1994 at Apex Venture Partners where he was general partner. In 1999, he co-founded Gabriel Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in and assists information technology startups. Rick identifies the smartest entrepreneurs and works side-by-side with them to build highly successful companies from the ground up. Rick has been involved in more than 50 venture deals, and has led over $100 million in early-stage financings and has had over $200 million in realizations. Rick has served on the boards of AccessLine Communications (acquired by Telanetix), Arula Systems (acquired by Raritan), Concord Communications (IPO – NASDAQ: CCRD), Exodus Communications (IPO – NASDAQ: EXDS, then acquired by Savvis), IPWireless (acquired by Nextwave), Jacked (acquired by Roundbox), Neopath (acquired by Cisco), NetScaler (acquired by Citrix Systems), Persistent Systems (IPO – BSE India: PER EQ), Placeware (acquired by Microsoft) Tut Systems (IPO – NASDAQ: TUTS), and Chegg (IPO – NYSE:CHGG). Education MBA – Harvard Business School MS – Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan (full fellowship) BS – Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan (with honors)
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About eLab Ventures: eLab Ventures is an early stage technology venture capital fund.
Robert Seidl
Managing Director, Co-Founder of Motus Ventures
Robert Seidl is Managing Partner at Motus Ventures.
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About AutoAdvantage, Motus Ventures: A combination of recent technology shifts and emerging consumer trends – internet connected cars, vehicle to vehicle communications.
Behrooz Abiri
CTO and Co-Founder of GuRu
A hardware hobbyist and International Physics Olympiad gold medalist – Behrooz has always been an avid inventor. He’s spent his life studying, learning, and exploring emerging technologies. His work at GuRu stems from a wish to share miraculous technology with the world at large. At GuRu, Behrooz is responsible for the ongoing development of core technology and system architecture. Under his leadership, GuRu’s millimeter-wave technology has been developed into an accessible consumer product. Before GuRu, Behrooz helped develop system design and architecture in Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Florian Bohn
CEO & Co-Founder of GuRu
Florian has always felt compelled to understand the way the world works. His curiosity moved him to study Electrical Engineering at Caltech (B.S. Cum Laude), to receive an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. At GuRu, Florian is thrilled to be building technology that will enrich people’s lives on a global scale. He is also proud to be building a community of passionate and like-minded engineers at the organization. As a co-founder and CEO at GuRu, Florian brings years of technology experience. At Axiom Microdevices, he helped define and implement high-frequency RF integrated circuits which have shipped more than 400 million units. At Agilent Laboratories (formerly HP Labs) he worked on clock and data recovery circuits as well as novel test and measurement systems. As a Caltech Lead Scientific Researcher, Florian guided engineering and operational aspects of implementing the microwave system at Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Alexander Gilkes
Co-Founder of Squared Circles
Alexander Gilkes is the Co-Founder of SQUARED CIRCLES.
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About Squared Circles: Squared Circles is a venture studio that focuses on operations, branding, capital, and talent.
Victor Darolfi
Founder & CEO of RoboTire
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About RoboTire: RoboTire automates vehicle maintenance by combining robots and computer vision.
Adam Roe
Founder and CEO of Zero Labs Group
Founder, CEO and Product Architect for Zero Labs Group – a privately held Southern California based business incubator and idea development firm for business and retail strategies, product ideation, business model architecture and exit strategy. ZLG has a specific focus on innovation for EV Automotive, Digital Retail, Snowsport Equipment and Conservation sectors. Adam competed as a skateboarder for 14 years. With a background in Advertising and design, and inspired by skateboardings energy and creativity, he started Lunchbox Studios in 1991 as an type-foundry, advertising and design company landing MTV as his first client. After, Adam went on to produce advertising and branding for hundreds of top level clients, founded New York’s Pavement Magazine, Reelhouse Footage and FX. Along with former partners, Adam reopened the Los Angeles office of Lunchbox in 2004 as the agency CEO to develop business solutions for Walmart, Unilever, P&G, Time Warner and Viacom. Adam also is a Licensed Master practitioner Neuro Linguistic Programming, Licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist, Certified NLP Communication Skills Master, Time Line therapist and has certifications from Society of NLP, American Institute Hypnotherapy and American Board Hypnotherapy among others.
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About Zero Labs Group: Private Business Incubator/Lab with a specific focus on innovation for EV Automotive, Retail, and Conservation technology.
Matthew Levin
Co-Founder and CEO of Donut Media
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About Donut Media: A digital network for the next generation of automotive enthusiasts.
Christopher Heiser
Founder & CEO of Renovo Auto
Christopher Heiser is a Founder & CEO at Renovo Auto
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About Renovo Auto: Renovo builds AWare the software platform for autonomous vehicles
Volkmar Uhlig
Co-Founder & CTO of Ghost
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About Ghost: Ghost is developing the revolutionary technology that finally makes self-driving safe.
John Hayes
Founder & CEO of Ghost
John Hayes joined John Colgrove to co-found Pure Storage in 2009 after serving in Yahoo!’s Office of the Chief Technologist, where he investigated web architectures for collaborative development of highly-reliable systems. He joined Yahoo! via the acquisition of Bix, where he was a founding engineer. His work prior to Yahoo! focused on developing distributed platforms for real-time interpersonal interaction in a variety of areas including entertainment, medicine, psychology, and defense. During this time, he became interested in the underlying architecture of reliable distributed systems, particularly those built from unreliable components. His diverse experiences have led him to develop new approaches to make today’s increasingly complex distributed systems more reliable. John holds a degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Guelph University in Ontario, Canada.
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About Ghost: Ghost is developing the revolutionary technology that finally makes self-driving safe.
David Moxam
Founder & Managing Partner of MalibuIQ
David Moxam (Mox) is a founder of Malibu IQ and acts in the role of Managing Partner. He chairs the Ideation Council with representative executives from HRL, GM, Boeing, and the owner investors of Malibu IQ, to set strategy and approve the formation of new companies (NewCos). Mox also works with the Malibu IQ Investment Team making contributions in NewCo value proposition and creation of the path to commercialization for NewCos. Primarily focused on commercializing invention assets originating at HRL, as a technically strong investment group, Malibu IQ also looks for opportunities that have the potential to leverage or align its core assets; and has the ability to invest in seed and series A level ventures. Additionally, the Team has resources and relevant subject matter expertise in a number of emerging disciplines to provide a fair bit of initial commercial guidance in addition to capital. Mox is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience in bringing advanced technologies to market. His expertise includes working in a senior executive capacity with a Global 500 leader; and in founding a pioneering technology start-up through sale to a prestigious private equity group. Through invitation, he has served on the Board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for 2 terms and is a vocal champion of new innovation models for accelerating advanced technology insertion into design and production. Operating globally, he has received the prestigious UK Queen’s Award for Enterprise and was recognized as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Technology in the US. While with EDS in 1998 he received their Pinnacle Award for Leadership, for work in founding the global financial markets group and IT developments with the NASD, Electronic Broking Services and the NYMEX. Mox was the founder of Authentix, Inc. a molecular engineering firm operating in the authentication & security industry; a founder and Director for Compassites Software Solutions in India; and he enjoys putting sweat equity into standing up NewCos. Two recent NewCos (independent of Malibu IQ) are; Decisio Health (predictive algorithms for healthcare), and Tenaxis ArterX (a next generation surgical sealant). Mr. Moxam holds graduate diplomas in Physics and Business Administration from Laurentian University in Canada; and has participated in corporate executive programmes with INSEAD in France. Notably, Mox has recently slipped to #2 on the family fly-fishing grid, losing coveted #1 to his son Cody.
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About MalibuIQ, Manti Resources, The Clear Creek Group: HRL Labs Technology Commercialization
Eyal Amir
CEO & Founder of Ai Incube
Eyal Amir is the CEO & Founder at Parknav.
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About Ai Incube, FasPark, Parknav, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Ai Incube is an API for the Live Street, for every street in the world 24/7. It’s first product, Parknav, is an API for on-street parking.
David Michery
CEO & Founder of Mullen Technologies
David Michery is CEO & Founder at Mullen Technologies. David Michery is a successful businessman and music executive. Born in California, David Michery attended Garfield High School. Michery began his music career as a teenager and went on to produce or executive produced more than a dozen18 award-winning gold and platinum records. In 2012, after 27 years in the music industry, David Michery purchased Mullen Motors from Arthur Allen, a Vietnam veteran and West Point graduate. David Michery’s company was re-named Mullen Technologies in August 2014, and now produces energy-efficient vehicles that are environmentally-friendly and affordable. In April 2018, Mullen Technologies opened its California-based Energy Division facility, which operates as a battery manufacturer division with a, battery pack testing facility and renewable energy research and development center.
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About Mullen Technologies: Mullen Technologies is a car manufacturer and distributor.
Kevin Czinger
Founder and CEO of Divergent 3D
Kevin Czinger serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Miles Electric Vehicles. He has extensive operating experience and a proven track record of performance in start-up and emerging growth companies. Czinger has served as a senior executive with Goldman Sachs, Bertelsmann AG, the Webvan Group and Global Signal. He has also been active at Benchmark Capital and as a senior Managing Director of Fortress Private Equity Funds.
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About Divergent 3D: Divergent 3D aims to revolutionize the auto industry through 3D printing.
Jeffrey Chou
CEO & Co-Founder of Sonatus
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About Diamanti, Sonatus: Sonatus builds game-changing vehicle and cloud-based software solutions that create a future-proof foundation for software-defined vehicles.
Yu Fang
CTO and Co-Founder of Sonatus
Yu Fang is the CTO and co-founder at Sonatus.
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About Sonatus: Sonatus builds game-changing vehicle and cloud-based software solutions that create a future-proof foundation for software-defined vehicles.
Alden Woodrow
Co-Founder & CEO of Ike
Co-Founder & CEO at Ike
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About Ike: Ike is a self driving truck startup, focused on building automation technology to help improve the trucking industry.
Nancy Sun
Co-Founder & Chief Engineer of Ike
Nancy Sun is the Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of Ike, an automated trucking startup building cutting-edge automation technology to help improve the trucking industry in the safest way possible. Prior to founding Ike, Nancy was the Engineering Lead for the self-driving truck program at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, which she joined via the Otto acquisition in 2016. Nancy’s deep expertise in systems engineering and transportation extends beyond Uber to Apple, where she was an Engineering Manager for their Special Projects Group, and electric motorcycle startup Mission Motors, where she was the VP of Advanced Development. Nancy has bachelors and masters degrees in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and it was during her years at MIT that she first developed a love of robotics.
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About Ike: Ike is a self driving truck startup, focused on building automation technology to help improve the trucking industry.
Jur van den Berg
CTO & Co-Founder of Ike
Dr. Jur van den Berg is CTO and co-founder at automated trucking startup Ike. He is passionate about bringing automated vehicle technology to the road as a product. Dr. Van den Berg has developed technology for multiple leading companies in the automated vehicle space, including Google (now Waymo), Apple, Otto, and Uber. He holds a PhD in computer science from Utrecht University, and has taught robotics as a professor at the University of Utah. Dr. Van den Berg’s experience has contributed to a strong belief in the specific application of AV technology to moving freight on highways, as it meaningfully constrains the technical problem, while at the same time positively impacting truckers and the trucking industry as a whole.
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About Ike: Ike is a self driving truck startup, focused on building automation technology to help improve the trucking industry.
Maha Achour
Founder & CEO of Metawave
CEO and Founder of Metawave, Maha is senior leader with more than 20 years’ experience in both public and entrepreneurial start-up companies in the RF, wireless, optics and networking industries. Demonstrated track record of: developing an idea from concept to product, delivering industry leading technologies, building teams and companies. Strong technology background combined with leadership, business and marketing skills. Previously, Maha served as co-founder and CTO of Rayspan, where she commercialized the first Metamaterial antennas and RF front-end subsystems for the cell-phone and WLAN industries. She has also pioneered the first broadcast HDTV system over satellite, mm-wave/Free-Space Optical systems for last mile connectivity, and led various DARPA projects in wireless MIMO and Optical devices.
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About Metawave, Polyceed Inc.: Metawave is a wireless technology company that builds intelligent and high-performance automotive radars by leveraging metamaterials and AI.
Sandy Godsey
Co-Founder & Chief Legal Officer of Metawave
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About Metawave: Metawave is a wireless technology company that builds intelligent and high-performance automotive radars by leveraging metamaterials and AI.
Niko Vuori
Founder & CEO of Drivetime
Founder & CEO Drivetime, co-founder & COO of Rocket Games, product at ToyTalk & BranchOut, GM Zynga Poker, founder & CEO Informifi.
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About Drivetime: Drivetime provides an online platform designed to help users play games while they drive.
Corey Brundage
CEO, Founder of HONK
Serial entrepreneur. Founder at HONK, betterSHIFT, KorMethod, SendLove.to and Sentient Systems. Investor and startup advisor.
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About HONK: HONK is an innovative roadside assistance platform that uses both technology and a unique business model.
Deepansh Jain
Founder & CTO of Scooterson
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About Scooterson: Intelligent electric vehicles of the future.
Mihnea de Vries
Founder and CEO of Scooterson
Mihnea de Vries is entrepreneur and filmmaker, with 20+ years of experience in technology start-ups, marketing, and film. Back in 1996, Mihnea launched the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in his hometown. Later, he started filming and directing TV ads and music videos, also pioneering aerial cinematography with drones. His latest quest is to change the way of how we ride around the cities.
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About Scooterson: Intelligent electric vehicles of the future.
Jordan Ramer
Founder and CEO of EV Connect
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About EV Connect: EV Connect provides enterprise-class, electric vehicle charging software, and solutions.
Shai Magzimof
Founder & CEO of Phantom Auto
Before Phantom Auto, Shai founded his first company at age 17 while participating in Y-combinator. That company later became Cue and was acquired by Apple. At age 20, Shai founded Nextpeer, a real-time multiplayer mobile gaming social platform, which had over 180 million downloads before it was acquired by Viber. Shai served as an executive at Viber for a year. In late 2017 Shai started Phantom Auto from his garage in Palo Alto.
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About Phantom Auto: Phantom Auto is a software company that offers teleoperation safety solutions and remote operations for logistics vehicles.
Elliot Katz
Co-Founder / Chief Business Development Officer of Phantom Auto
As chair of the autonomous vehicle practices at two of the largest law firms in the world, Elliot advised automakers, global tech companies, ridesharing companies, and municipalities on business, legal, policy, and regulatory issues pertaining to these types of vehicles. An advocate who recognizes the important societal benefit of automated vehicles, Elliot regularly speaks at automated vehicle events across the country and throughout the world, and has recently discussed his views with media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBS Nightly News, CNBC, Wired, Forbes, Bloomberg, and NPR. The following is an interview Elliot recently did with Forbes regarding automated vehicles: “Autonomous Vehicles: ‘Zero Human Intervention Is Still Several Years Away”.
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About DLA Piper, McGuireWoods, Phantom Auto: Phantom Auto is a software company that offers teleoperation safety solutions and remote operations for logistics vehicles.
Austin Russell
Founder & CEO of Luminar
Austin is an engineer, entrepreneur, and LiDAR industry pioneer for autonomous vehicles. He founded Luminar in 2012 with a mission to make autonomy safe and ubiquitous. After years of ground-up technology development and breakthroughs, he has grown it into now a 400-person operation and partnered with a number of the world’s leading automakers and technology companies, including Toyota and Volvo. Prior to Luminar, Austin began his career in industry at age 11 by building supercomputers and optical power transmission systems. He applied for his first patent at 13, and three years later became an independent researcher at the Beckman Laser Institute. After a short stint at Stanford in the Applied Physics department, he accepted the Thiel Fellowship at 17 pursue his vision of Luminar and build out the technology. Austin is recognized as a Thiel Fellow, MIT 35 under 35, and industry lead in Forbes 30 under 30.
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About Luminar, Optics.org: Luminar is an autonomous vehicle and lidar technology company for passenger cars, commercial trucking and robo-taxi.
Jan Becker
CEO & Co-Founder of Apex.AI
Pioneering Automated Driving and Robotics leader who has been engineering innovations in autonomous/automated driving, robotics, artificial intelligence, and hardware/software design and development. History of working on robotics and automotive projects in the US & Europe. Practical technology manager who recognizes the value of user-centered design principles, iterative development, and ongoing testing to deliver useful products that people want. Significant research and development contributions in driver assistance, automated driving, vehicle safety systems, personal robotics, shared autonomy. Powerful global network of robotics, AI and automotive professionals, having worked on high-profile projects at Bosch and Stanford University. 20+ years of experience in vehicle automation 10+ years of experience in leading high performance technical teams 5+ years of experience in teaching at Stanford University 50+ patents in automated driving and driver assistance List of publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan_Becker3 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UBDpyhQAAAAJ
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About Apex.AI, Stanford University: Apex.AI is building an operating system for autonomous vehicles.
Dejan Pangercic
CTO & Co-Founder of Apex.AI
Dejan Pangercic and Jan Becker founded Apex.AI in 2017.
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About Apex.AI: Apex.AI is building an operating system for autonomous vehicles.
Stanley Yuan
CEO & Co-Founder of Otto Radio, Inc.
CEO of Otto Radio. Strategist by day, mathematician and economist by training, humanitarian at heart. Love productizing & building. Previous @GoldmanSachs @Columbia
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About hibooks, Otto Radio, Inc.: Transform the time on everyday tasks into opportunities to be entertained and stay informed about the things they care about most
Yu Wang
CTO & Co-Founder of Otto Radio, Inc.
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About Himalaya Media, Otto Radio, Inc.: Transform the time on everyday tasks into opportunities to be entertained and stay informed about the things they care about most
David Fink
VP of Engineering & Co-Founder of Otto Radio, Inc.
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About hibooks, Otto Radio, Inc.: Transform the time on everyday tasks into opportunities to be entertained and stay informed about the things they care about most
Patrick Enthoven
Co-Founder of Hollard Insurance
Patrick Robert Enthoven BA (UCT) is a Co-Founder of Hollard Insurance and served as it’s Chief Executive Officer. Patrick Enthoven serves as Non-Executive Chairman of Hollard Insurance. He is also Co-Founder and a Director of Merrymeeting Inc. in the United States of America. Patrick Enthoven has been a Director at Direct Relief International Inc. since July 2009. He served as a Non Executive Director of Clientele Life Assurance Company Limited and Clientele Limited.
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About Hollard Insurance: Hollard Insurance is an insurance agency selling house,car,business and funeral insurance.
John Taggart
Co-Founder and CTO of WeaveGrid
John Taggart is the co-founder and CTO of Weave Grid.
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About WeaveGrid: WeaveGrid develops electrification software for the scalable deployment of electric vehicles on the electric grid.
Evangelos Simoudis
Founder and Managing Director of Synapse Partners
Evangelos Simoudis is the Board Director of eXelate.He joined Trident Capital in 2005 as a Venture Partner and has been a Managing Director since 2007. Evangelos focuses on investments in Internet and Enterprise Software businesses. Prior to Trident, Evangelos spent 5 years as a partner at Apax Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm where he invested and served on the boards of early and mid-stage IT companies. At Apax he also chaired the firmâs IT advisory board. Prior to entering venture capital, Evangelos had more than 20 years experience in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. His experience as a technology executive includes serving as President and CEO of Customer Analytics, a Trident-backed, eCRM company acquired by Xchange, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXAP), and as Vice President of Business Intelligence Solutions at IBM. Evangelos’ current directorships include,DesiHits,Hip Digital,Host Analytics,PivotLink Software. Prior Directorships include,Bristol Technology (acquired by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ)), Composite Software, Confluent Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL)), Doppelganger (acquired by Hip Digital), Princeton Softech (acquired by IBM),Vidavee (acquired by Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN) .Evangelos earned a PhD in Computer Science from Brandeis University.BS in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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About Synapse Partners: Synapse Partners invests in early-stage startups developing horizontal or vertical enterprise software AI applications.
Chris Gerdes
Founder and Principal Scientist of Peloton Technology
Chris is a world-renowned expert in vehicle dynamics and safety, and the director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford, which counts as its members key transportation industry players. Prior to joining Stanford, Professor Gerdes was the project leader for vehicle dynamics for Freightliner trucks. At Stanford, Chris has developed several pioneering automated vehicles, including the autonomous racecar Audi TTS, which famously climbed Pikes Peak. Chris’s work blends the rigor of safety critical systems, with the need to work well with the human driver. Chris holds an BSME from UPenn, and a PhD from UC Berkeley.
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About Peloton Technology, Stanford University: Peloton is a connected and automated vehicle technology company improving safety and efficiency in the trucking industry.
Jessika Lora
Founder and CEO of CarForce
A management consultant by training and Stanford BS and MS graduate with 10+ years of automotive and e-commerce experience. Previous GM of ebay’s Vehicles C2C business and Head of Automotive Corp Dev, managing strategy and operations for a $7.3B division and responsible for double-digit growth on ebay’s $1.6B vehicles C2C sector.
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About CarForce: CarForce is a multi-brand enterprise software platform that delivers real-time vehicle health insights using EDGE computing and ML
Charlene Consolacion
CEO & Co-Founder of Biig
Charlene Consolacion co-founded the World’s First Smart Lockbox for Cars: The BiigVault, transforming the automotive industry by introducing a secured and smart lockbox into vehicles, enabling a wide-array of on-demand automotive services such as in-car trunk delivery. Charlene is constantly innovating in the dynamic and high-tech sphere. This patented system is easy to install, allowing customers to use their smartphones to control, monitor a wide range of connected car capabilities, and access on-demand services.
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About Biig, Phrame: BiigVault: The Smart Lockbox for Cars
Carolyn Coquillette
Founder and CEO of Shop-Ware
Carolyn Coquillette is the founder, owner, and lead technician at Luscious Garage. She started the San Francisco-based auto shop in 2007. After seven years, Carolyn founded an online software for auto repair shops called Shop-Ware.
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About Shop-Ware: Shop-Ware offers an enterprise-grade SaaS platform to help the automotive aftermarket thrive and grow.
Jia Li
Founder & President of Nonda
Founder at Nonda & Baixing.com.
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About Nonda: nonda makes consumer connected car devices.
Richard Wang
CEO/Co-Founder of Cuberg
CEO and Co-Founder at Cuberg
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About Cuberg: Cuberg is a company delivering lithium metal cells produced on existing lithium-ion manufacturing lines for electromobility solutions.
Khaled Hassounah
CEO & Founder of Ample
A visionary technologist, Khaled has recruited and built technical teams across multiple early-stage startups and managed them through rapid growth to deliver successful and innovative products. Khaled has proven experience in building and deploying scalable software that has been used and continues to be used by tens of millions of enterprise and online users across multiple verticals. He has also set up and managed teams across India, China and the Middle East. Prior to MedHelp, he was a founding member of IMlogic, an instant messaging security software company acquired by Symantec, where he built the tech team and managed the delivery of three successful product offerings. Khaled was also the a founding member of One World Software Solutions, a technical consulting company that grew to span three continents, and was part of the NetDocs team at Microsoft. Khaled holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan.
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About Ample, MedHelp, NetDocs: Ample utilizes autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology to solve the energy delivery challenge for electric transportation.
Jon Sobel
CEO & Co-Founder of Sight Machine
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About Sight Machine, University of Michigan: Sight Machine provides analytics platform that helps address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise.
Ezra Goldman
Co-Founder & CEO of Upshift
Ezra Goldman is founder & CEO of Upshift. He managed a software startup in Copenhagen for 2 years, spent 5 years as a human centered design strategist and has 22 years experience in shared transportation services since cofounding a bikeshare service in 1999. Ezra has never owned a car and has been a shared mobility pioneer: 1999-2003: Bikeshare 2006: Folding EV scootershare 2008: Carshare 2008: Rideshare 2009-10: P2P carshare 2011: Multi-modal trip planner app 2011-12: Emerging market carshare 2011-13: Fractional carshare 2014-: Autonomous carshare His background combines a depth of understanding on people’s needs, business strategy, environmental issues, urban systems, and the potential of technology. He combines these elements to drive market oriented, systemic change at the highest point of leverage possible. Specialties Entrepreneurship, user centered design, design strategy, urban planning and urban design, transportation planning, concept generation and innovation, mobile technology and social media.
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About Upshift: Fractional car memberships
Aaron Nathan
Founder & CEO of Point One Navigation
A hands on technical leader with over a decade of experience in cutting edge robotics work and mission critical development in both software and hardware. Designed, built and deployed complex systems in financial tech, defense, research, and enterprise. A firm believer tightly coupled hardware and software solutions with a focus on the end user experience.
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About Point One Navigation: Point One Navigation is building a centimeter accurate localization service for the future of transportation.
Logan Voxx
Founder of WOSH
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About WOSH: WOSH is the carwash that comes to you where you want it… when you want it.
Brad Perry
CTO & Co-Founder of DealerSocket
Brad’s role is to help the company align our business and technology strategy to achieve our aggressive growth objectives. Prior to joining FreightPOP, Brad was the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at DealerSocket.
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About DealerSocket, FreightPOP: DealerSocket is an industry leading automotive CRM–Customer Relationship Management and dealership training provider, serving auto dealers.
Jonathan Ord
CEO & Co-Founder of DealerSocket
As CEO, Jonathan Ord sets vision and drives overall strategy for DealerSocket. Jonathan co-founded DealerSocket in 2001 to create a revolutionary model for industry niche CRM applications. Both DealerSocket and Jonathan have received many accolades including being named Best Overall Company globally in the 2008 Stevie International Business Awards, Best Management Team in the 2009 American Business Awards, one of the Red Herring North American 100 in 2009. Additionally, Jonathan has been honored as one of the most successful young Entrepreneurs and Executives in Southern California, being honored with the 2010 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award from the Orange County Business Journal
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About DealerSocket: DealerSocket is an industry leading automotive CRM–Customer Relationship Management and dealership training provider, serving auto dealers.
Rohn Monroe
Founder of AutoBidMarket
Founder of AutoBidMarket.com.
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About AutoBidMarket: AutoBidMarket is a automotive project which aims to enhance the experience with the buying and selling of cars.
Sravan Puttagunta
Co-Founder and CEO of Hyperspec-ai
I’m a executive and an innovator with bold ambitions. I specialize in launching revolutionary products, redefining processes, and helping organizations grow rapidly. Seeking to partner with other innovative people that are inspired by creativity, thirst for knowledge and perseverance to see their ideas to reality. Reach out if you have these qualities.
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About Go360, Go360.io, Hyperspec-ai: We are expand navigable roadways for autonomous vehicles from 3% to 95%, today, by equipping each car with our onboard vision hardware.
Dima Steesy
Founder of Humble Motors
Dima Steesy is the Founder of Humble Motors.
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About Humble Motors: Humble Motors is a tech company that invents solar-powered electric vehicles.
Li Han Chan
Founder & Chairman of DynaOptics
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About DynaOptics, Sierra Angels, Zoox: Miniature advanced optics using IP-protected freeform lens technology for mobile phone cam, self-driving auto, military/UAV, IoT, security
Todd Chernecki
Co-Founder and CEO of SUBPAC
Todd Chernecki is the CEO & Co-Founder at SUBPAC.
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About SUBPAC, SUBPAC: SUBPAC is a patented tactile audio technology that transfers low frequencies directly to a users body and more.
Vinayak Nagpal
Co-Founder & CEO of Zendar
Vinayak Nagpal is the Co-Founder & CEO at Zendar.
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About Zendar: Zendar develops high-definition radar for autonomous vehicles.
Modar Alaoui
Founder and CEO of Eyeris
AI technologist at the intersection of computer vision, human behavior understanding and automotive. A frequent speaker, cheering for a world of predominately autonomous vehicles with a highly intelligent interior for optimized safety and comfort.
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About Eyeris: In-cabin Sensing AI for Autonomous and Highly Automated Vehicles
Eugene Kleiner
Co-Founder of Fairchild Semiconductor
Eugene Kleiner was a founder of Fairchild Semiconductor where he played a key role in the growth of the company and the semiconductor industry. Eugene received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York and an MS in Industrial Engineering from New York University. In 1989, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering Degree from the Polytechnic University of New York.
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About Fairchild Semiconductor: Fairchild Semiconductor offers power analog, power discrete, and non-power semiconductor solutions.
Jay Last
Co-Founder of Fairchild Semiconductor
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About Fairchild Semiconductor: Fairchild Semiconductor offers power analog, power discrete, and non-power semiconductor solutions.
Sheldon Roberts
Co-Founder of Fairchild Semiconductor
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About Fairchild Semiconductor: Fairchild Semiconductor offers power analog, power discrete, and non-power semiconductor solutions.
Victor Grinich
Co-Founder of Fairchild Semiconductor
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About Fairchild Semiconductor: Fairchild Semiconductor offers power analog, power discrete, and non-power semiconductor solutions.
