Smartcar, Inc.
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Founded 📆 | January 2015 |
Founders 👔 | Sahas Katta Sanketh Katta |
Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
Area served 🗺️ | United States |
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Number of employees | |
🌐 Website | www |
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Smartcar is a software company based in Mountain View, California. It allows app developers to communicate with connected cars using an API.
History[edit]
Smartcar was founded in 2015 by Sahas Katta and Sanketh Katta. As of March 2018, Smartcar has raised $12 million in venture capital funding from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).[1][2][3][4]
Board Members[edit]
Smartcar's board consists of CEO Sahas Katta, CTO Sanketh Katta, William Krause of Andreessen Horowitz, and Forest Baskett of New Enterprise Associates.[5] Forest Baskett previously was the CTO at Silicon Graphics and William Krause was the previously the CEO at 3Com. [6][7]
References[edit]
- ↑ Sawers, Paul (1 March 2018). "Smartcar raises $10 million from NEA and Andreessen Horowitz for developers to build apps for connected cars". VentureBeat. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
- ↑ Davis, Alexander (1 March 2018). "A Connected-Car Platform Fuels Its Tank With NEA, Andreessen". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ↑ Krause, Bill (8 March 2018). "Smartcar". Andreessen Horowitz. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ↑ Forest, Baksett. "Smartcar: Driving a New Standard for Automobiles". www.nea.com. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ↑ "Smartcar Inc". Bloomberg. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ↑ "Forest Baskett". Forbes. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ↑ "Bill & Gay Krause - The Citadel". www.citadel.edu. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
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