The connected-car startup Zubie can already analyze what's abaft a abstruse and awkward "check engine" light. Now, it's aggravating to adduce the bulk of acclimation it.
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The aggregation sells a accessory that plugs into a vehicle's affection anchorage and connects it to the Internet, tracking things like acceleration and area for afraid parents of adolescence and business owners operating fleets. Because it's affiliated to cars' computers, the aggregation can additionally acquaint drivers why they accept an absurdity code.
Gary Tucker is CEO of Zubie. File/Provided
Zubie, which is headquartered in Minneapolis with business operations in Mount Pleasant, is acquisitive to booty that a footfall added by inking a accord with RepairPal. The San Francisco-based account generates quotes for accustomed casework and links motorists to adjacent auto shops.
"We're bringing a amazing bulk of accuracy to the account ancillary of agent ownership," said Zubie arch controlling Gary Tucker. "We're demystifying that action for them and giving them the aplomb to accept what's activity on central their car."
Tucker says the business accord with RepairPal is meant in allotment to appearance car dealers and adjustment shops what Zubie can do. While the startup sells its accessory anon to customers, it abundantly depends on businesses like allowance companies to buy them, giving them to audience in barter for abstracts about their active habits.
Zubie, which was founded on Sullivan's Island, has additionally approved business accessories to car dealerships. The abstraction is to accord the account administration a adventitious to see what's amiss with cartage — and alarm owners preemptively to align an appointment.
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The focus on affairs to businesses could be abnormally important as antagonism grows in the bazaar for connected-car devices, additionally accustomed as telematics.
Verizon is one example. It has invested heavily in its Hum accessory and added telematics services, affairs bags of Internet-connected accessories to wireless buzz customers. It additionally bought connected-car companies Fleetmatics and Telogis aftermost year, affairs in $214 actor from its telematics business in the aboriginal division alone.
And in April, Zubie adversary Automatic Labs was acquired by the accessory radio aggregation SiriusXM, which spent $115 actor on the startup, abacus added firepower to the market.
"It's starting to mature," Tucker said. "By abutting your car to the Internet, you actualize admission to all kinds of casework that you've never had before, and abounding of those casework are alpha to appear now."
Investors are putting added money into Proterra — a California aggregation already headquartered in the Upstate — as the electric-bus maker positions itself to go public.
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Silicon Valley-based Proterra, which is acquisitive to do for buses what Tesla did for electric cars, said this month it had aloft $55 million, aloof months afterwards demography addition $140 actor in investments.
The new allotment is accustomed to advice access up assembly at the company's aboriginal bus branch in Greenville and a new ability alfresco Los Angeles.
The new annular included Generation Advance Management, a armamentarium managed by above Vice President Al Gore, and the adventure basic arm of automaker BMW.
Proterra is calmly one of the better success belief in the contempo history of South Carolina's arising tech sector, alike as it has been pulled into the apogee of California's tech and accomplishment sectors. It counts amid its bounded partners S.C. Launch, a state-backed advance program, and VentureSouth, a accumulation of early-stage angel investors.
The company has said it expects to bear about 90 buses this year, with affairs to administer about 180 bodies in Greenville by the end of the year.
Speculation about the company's approaching has swirled about the anticipation of an antecedent accessible offering, abnormally as it has aloft bags of cash. CEO Ryan Popple, who confused the company's address to Burlingame, Calif., in 2015, has floated the anticipation of an IPO this year or next.
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"For me, an IPO is a bureau to the end and the end is: I appetite to annihilate fossil-fuel buses from American cities, and if an IPO helps us do that, great," Popple told The Wall Street Journal. "If a cardinal affiliation with a beyond association is absolutely the faster way to do that — doesn’t amount to me."
Three added Charleston companies accept been accustomed into the S.C. Research Authority's SC Launch program.
Included in the program, which is advised to accord South Carolina startups a boost, are Citibot, which builds babble bots for burghal governments; Good United, which is alive on a donor assurance apparatus for nonprofits; and in/Pact, which hopes to animate alms into consumers' purchases.
Joining the SC Launch affairs doesn't beggarly the companies will necessarily accept an advance from the tech-focused agency, but the startups will be acceptable to administer for funding.
Reach Thad Moore at 843-937-5703 or on Twitter @thadmoore.
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