Stellantis Celebrates Innovative Startups Revolutionizing Mobility
Stellantis Honors Pioneering Startup Ecosystem for Intuitive, Personalized, and Sustainable Mobility Solutions
The Venture Awards recognize five exemplary startup partners and two Stellantis Ventures-backed innovators
Startups play a pivotal role in the Dare Forward 2030 strategic vision, aiming to deliver customer-centric solutions for clean, safe, and affordable mobility
AMSTERDAM, July 15, 2024 – In a grand celebration of innovation and collaboration, Stellantis N.V. has honored seven outstanding technology startups with the prestigious third annual Stellantis Venture Awards. These accolades underscore Stellantis’ dedication to advancing customer-centric technology and features, propelling the Dare Forward 2030 vision of a future defined by clean, safe, and affordable mobility.
“We are committed to integrating technologies that seamlessly fit into our customers’ lives,” said Ned Curic, Stellantis Chief Engineering and Technology Officer. “Our gratitude goes to the startups whose innovations delight and enhance our customers’ experiences.”
This year’s honorees were selected for their remarkable impact on customer experience, technological novelty, and scalability potential within Stellantis. The 2024 Stellantis Venture Awards recognized the following:
CARE:
- Glanceable (France): An AI-powered solution for customer experience, Glanceable centralizes, analyzes, and helps act on all consumer feedback through an intuitive interface and proprietary AI.
- Niron Magnetics (United States): Revolutionizing the manufacturing process for permanent magnets with iron nitride, free of rare earth and other critical materials, enabling a new era in electric motor and generator design using environmentally friendly materials.
TECH:
- Epitone (United States): Leading the way in automotive augmented reality with the LiveWindow system, which projects navigation and crucial information onto the windshield in the driver’s line of sight, fully integrating with various autonomous driving levels.
- Voltbras (Brazil): Innovates with white-label electric vehicle charging management software, providing companies with tools to monitor and manage EV chargers.
- Ample (United States): Offers a modular, drop-in battery-swapping system for electric vehicles, adaptable without reengineering the vehicle platform, and providing a versatile, low-cost, fast-to-deploy energy solution.
VALUE:
- Wheel.me (Norway): Specializes in indoor mobility with autonomous wheels, transforming existing infrastructure into self-driving robots to enhance business efficiency and productivity.
- Emotiva (Italy): Utilizes AI-powered technology to analyze human attention and emotions, improving the effectiveness of advertising by understanding customer reactions.
Stellantis also commends the other 22 finalists and their groundbreaking projects, including 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, and Volix.
A Dual Approach to Innovation:
As a Partner: Stellantis accelerates innovation by rapidly implementing startup solutions, having signed over 150 partnership contracts with startups in the past three years.
As an Investor: Stellantis Ventures, with an initial investment of €300 million, targets early and later-stage startups developing cutting-edge automotive and mobility technologies. Since its inception two years ago, Stellantis Ventures has made 14 investments, including new stakes in Tiamat, a French company commercializing sodium-ion battery technology, and Steerlight, a developer of advanced LiDAR sensing technology.
Stellantis’ commitment to fostering innovation through its partnerships and investments underscores its mission to drive forward the future of mobility, ensuring it is intuitive, personalized, and sustainable.
