Our founder was CTO of a mid-sized auto-tech company and built an industry-leading connected-vehicle solution from the ground up: the device, its firmware, the backend, the apps and the fleet management around them.
The solution scaled to global deployment across EMEA, APAC and LATAM, with over 800,000 devices shipped and terabytes of vehicle data ingested every month. That meant vendor contracts, compliance processes, global homologation and security approvals for some of the industry's largest customers. The company has since signed a contract with a major vehicle manufacturer to ship millions more devices.
Building their own hardware was never the goal. It happened because no supplier excelled at every component — and nobody would sell them individually.