2024 Venture Awards Celebrate Startups Partnering with Stellantis to Enhance Customer Experience
July 15 2024 - 9:01AM
2024 Venture Awards Celebrate Startups
Partnering with Stellantis to Enhance Customer
Experience
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Stellantis leverages an innovative startup ecosystem to
drive intuitive, personalized and sustainable mobility
solutions
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Venture Awards honors five startup partners and two startups backed
by the Stellantis Ventures capital fund
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Startups are crucial to the Dare Forward 2030 strategic
plan, which aims to provide customer-centric solutions for clean,
safe and affordable mobility
AMSTERDAM, July 15, 2024 – In a celebration of
innovation and successful collaborations, Stellantis N.V. has
honored seven top-performing technology startups with the third
annual Stellantis Venture Awards. These awards highlight
Stellantis’ commitment to delivering customer-centric technology
and features, driving the Dare Forward 2030 vision of clean, safe
and affordable mobility.
“We are dedicated to creating technologies that
seamlessly integrate into people’s lives,” said Ned Curic,
Stellantis Chief Engineering and Technology Officer. “We are truly
grateful to the startups that help us deliver technology that
delights and enhances our customers’ experiences.”
This year’s honorees were selected based on
their impact on the customer experience, the novelty of their
technology, and its potential scalability within Stellantis. The
2024 Stellantis Venture Awards recognition includes:
CARE:
Glanceable (France) offers an
AI-powered solution for customer experience that automatically
centralizes, analyzes and helps act on all consumer feedback using
an intuitive interface and proprietary AI.
Niron Magnetics (United States)
advances the manufacturing process for the mass production of
permanent magnets based on iron nitride, free of rare earth and
other critical materials. By using environmentally friendly
materials, this innovation enables a revolution in the design of
new electric motors and generators.
TECH:
Epitone (United States) is at
the forefront of automotive augmented reality innovation with its
LiveWindow system, which enhances safety by projecting navigation
and other crucial information onto the windshield in the driver’s
line of sight. This advanced technology fully integrates with
various levels of autonomous driving.
Voltbras (Brazil) provides
companies with innovative white-label electric vehicle charging
management software for monitoring and managing the operation of
electric vehicle chargers.
Ample (United States) offers a
modular-designed drop-in battery-swapping system that can be
integrated into electric vehicles without requiring a reengineering
of the vehicle platform. Ample’s modular solution can deliver
energy to multiple vehicle platforms using the same low-cost and
fast-to-deploy swapping infrastructure.
VALUE:
Wheel.me (Norway) robotics and
IoT company that offers a pioneering solution to indoor mobility,
specializing in autonomous wheels. By transforming existing
infrastructure into self-driving robots, they help businesses
enhance efficiency and productivity on their automation
journeys.
Emotiva (Italy) is dedicated to
deciphering human attention and emotions with AI-powered technology
that analyzes customer reactions to enhance advertising
effectiveness.
In addition, Stellantis congratulates the other
22 finalists and their projects: 4Screen, Bioxegy, Chunjian, Comet
ML, Deep ESG, Deep legal analytics, DeepHawk, Fleeti, Forge 3D,
Gaming, Gnani, Hevo, HMRexpert, Hubject, Inbolt, Minviro, Mira,
Myelin, Nebula Link, Proovstation, Sowhen, Volix.
Stellantis collaborates with startups in two
primary ways:
As a partner: Stellantis
promotes innovation through the rapid implementation of startups’
innovative solutions, having signed over 150 partnership contracts
with startups in the past three years.
As an investor: With an initial
investment of €300 million, the Stellantis Ventures capital fund
focuses on early and later-stage startup companies developing
cutting-edge technologies for the automotive and mobility sector.
Since its inception two years ago, Stellantis Ventures has
completed 14 investments, including new investments this year in
Tiamat, a France-based company that is developing and
commercializing sodium-ion battery technology and Steerlight, the
developer of a new generation of high-performance LiDAR (Light
Detection and Ranging) sensing technology.
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About Stellantis
Stellantis N.V. (NYSE: STLA / Euronext Milan:
STLAM / Euronext Paris: STLAP) is one of the world’s leading
automakers aiming to provide clean, safe and affordable freedom of
mobility to all. It’s best known for its unique portfolio of iconic
and innovative brands including Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler,
Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, FIAT, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati,
Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall, Free2move and Leasys. Stellantis is
executing its Dare Forward 2030, a bold strategic plan that paves
the way to achieve the ambitious target of becoming a carbon net
zero mobility tech company by 2038, with single-digit percentage
compensation of the remaining emissions, while creating added value
for all stakeholders. For more information, www.stellantis.com.
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