AMSTERDAM – Stellantis N.V. has celebrated innovation and successful collaborations by honoring seven top-performing technology startups with the third annual Stellantis Venture Awards. These awards emphasize Stellantis’ dedication to customer-centric technology and features, aligning with 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 recognized:
CARE:
- Glanceable (France): An AI-powered solution that 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 mass production of permanent magnets based on iron nitride, free of rare earth and other critical materials, enabling revolutionary designs of new electric motors and generators.
TECH:
- Epitone (United States): At the forefront of automotive augmented reality with its LiveWindow system, enhancing safety by projecting navigation and other crucial information onto the windshield in the driver’s line of sight.
- Voltbras (Brazil): Provides companies with innovative white-label electric vehicle charging management software for monitoring and managing the operation of EV chargers.
- Ample (United States): Offers a modular-designed drop-in battery-swapping system for EVs, delivering energy to multiple vehicle platforms using the same low-cost and fast-to-deploy infrastructure.
VALUE:
- Wheel.me (Norway): Robotics and IoT company offering a pioneering solution to indoor mobility with autonomous wheels, transforming existing infrastructure into self-driving robots to enhance business efficiency and productivity.
- Emotiva (Italy): Deciphers human attention and emotions with AI-powered technology that analyzes customer reactions to enhance advertising effectiveness.
Stellantis also congratulates the other 22 finalists and their 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.
Stellantis collaborates with startups in two primary ways:
As a partner: 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 developing sodium-ion battery technology, and Steerlight, the developer of a new generation of high-performance LiDAR sensing technology.
