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Using online platforms, autonomy, electric and fuel-cell tech solutions to shape the future of trucking.

Truck Industry Tech

Einride is a Swedish startup developing technology for both autonomous and electric trucks. Its product portfolio includes the freight-hauling autonomous Class 8 trucks “Pods,” electrified commercial mobility solutions “E-trucks,” electric semi-trailer <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/10558">“Einride Trailer,” </a>its operating system “Saga”—an IoT-based system that runs through Einride’s vehicles <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/14209">(also offered to third parties), </a>a developer application programming interface called <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/10558">“Einride Extend”; </a>and charging stations called <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/14209">“Einride Stations.” </a>The company offers electric trucks to customers across Europe, US, and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19012">the UAE. </a>It also has approval to launch its autonomous trucks in countries including Sweden, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11283">the US, </a>and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13069">Germany.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;Einride offers its products on a subscription-based delivery-as-a-service business model. The subscription includes the use of Einride's electric and autonomous trucks, access to its routing software, and maintenance services.Key customers and partnershipsEinride’s customers using its electric trucking solutions include <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9350">A.P. Moller-Maersk </a>(US), Bridgestone (US), <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9350">Beyond Meat </a>(US), <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35190">PepsiCo</a> (US), Lidl (Sweden), <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11100">Oatly </a>(Sweden and US), <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25917">Mars </a>(Europe), Heineken (Netherlands and Germany), <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15017">AB InBev </a>(Benelux region), PepsiCo snack food subsidiary <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17838">Walkers </a>(UK), <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18586">REWE </a>(Germany), and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19409">PostNord </a>(Sweden and Norway). Its customers that use the autonomous version of its trucks include <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24002">GE Appliances </a>(US).&nbsp;Einride has truck purchase agreements with automakers including Mercedes-Benz (120 trucks for deployments in Europe; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/sectors/commerce-and-hospitality/updates/7396">December 2021) </a>BYD (200 trucks for US deployments; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8645">February 2022) </a>, Scania (110 trucks for deployment in Europe; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11190">May 2022), </a>DAF Trucks (50 electric trucks; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18731">May 2023) </a>and Paccar (150 trucks, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29863">May 2024), </a>which would be retrofitted with Einride’s autonomous/operating software.&nbsp;Key competitors: None comparable (Einride is the only company in the Truck Industry Tech that offers battery-electric and autonomous trucking solutions.)

Electrifying passenger and commercial travel

EV Economy

Einride is a Swedish electric and autonomous (E&amp;A) commercial vehicle developer. The company’s flagship E&amp;A model “Pod” is the first to receive permission to operate on public roads in selected Swedish locations (in 2019). The company’s product portfolio also includes “E-trucks,” electric semi-trailer “Einride Trailer,” its operating system “Saga”—an IoT-based system that runs through Einride’s vehicles (also offered to third parties), and charging stations known as “Einride Stations.”In <a href="https://einride.tech/press/first-smartcharger-station-opens/">November 2023</a>, Einride opened its first charging station in Sweden, with plans to introduce charging stations to the US. The stations are capable of serving up to 200 vehicles and are available for both Einride customers and third-party fleets. Additionally, the company’s intelligent freight mobility platform Einride Saga can generate operational KPIs, track progress toward achieving emission targets and provide actionable operational insights using data gathered from customers’ transport ecosystem.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11283">June 2022</a>, the company received approval from the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) to operate Pods without a safety driver on US roads, and also announced the launch of its trucks in Germany in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13069">September 2022</a>.Key customers and partnershipsEinride launched its operations in the US in October 2021 and has onboarded several high-profile customers like Bridgestone, GE Appliances, and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11101">Oatly</a> (a Swedish food company). In March 2022, the company partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9350">Maersk</a> to supply 300 E-Trucks, following which it partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/12311">Beyond Meat</a> to supply five electric trucks in August 2022. In December 2022, Einride partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15018">AB InBev</a> to deploy a fleet of its trucks in the Benelux region (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg). In April 2023, the company established a three-year partnership with PepsiCo subsidiary <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17898">Walkers</a> (UK) where the latter will use Einride-connected EVs between its manufacturing sites in Leicester and Coventry. Similarly, in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18586">May 2023</a> the company partnered with German supermarket chain REWE to supply trucks for deployments in Germany. In June 2023, Einride partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19409">PostNord</a> to electrify the latter's fleet in Norway. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24002">November 2023</a>, the company partnered with GE Appliances again to launch long-term autonomous truck operations.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26431">February 2024</a>, Einride partnered with Heineken to deploy electric trucks to transport beer from Heineken's brewery in the Netherlands to a distribution center in Germany.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19012">May 2023,</a> the company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure to make Einride’s full-freight mobility offering (which includes 2,000 electric trucks, 200 autonomous trucks, and eight charging stations with over 500 charging points) available across the UAE’s “Falcon Rise” grid, a stretch of 550 km (341 miles) across Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah. The freight ecosystem will be optimized and monitored using the “Einride Saga” platform.Einride also has truck purchase agreements with automakers including Mercedes-Benz (120 trucks for deployments in Europe; December 2021) BYD (200 trucks for US deployments; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8645">February 2022</a>), Scania (110 trucks for deployment in Europe; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11190">May 2022</a>), DAF Trucks (50 electric trucks; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19012">May 2023</a>), and Mars (300 trucks; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25917">January 2024</a>). The company also has a partnership with the tire-making company Bridgestone (August 2021) to integrate its smart-sensing tire technology into Einride’s vehicles.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15176">December 2022 </a>, the company raised USD 500 million in equity and debt financing to fund geographical expansion into new and existing markets across Europe and North America. In May 2021 Einride raised USD 110 million in a Series B round. The proceeds were to be used to scale up deployments with major customers in Europe and the US.

Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

Mirantis is a technology company that provides cloud-native software and services to help businesses modernize their IT infrastructure.Mirantis specializes in open-source software, focusing on Kubernetes, OpenStack, and related technologies. Its core offering is the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform, a managed Kubernetes service that provides a complete set of tools for deploying and managing containerized applications. The platform helps organizations adopt and scale Kubernetes quickly and easily, with features like automated provisioning, integrated monitoring, and self-service access to resources. Mirantis also offers professional services including consulting, training, and support for Kubernetes, OpenStack, and related technologies.Mirantis sells its products and services through a subscription-based model. Customers can choose from various annual subscription plans, depending on their needs.Key customers and partnershipsMirantis focuses on enterprise customers who deploy and manage large-scale private clouds. Some of its high-profile customers include Volkswagen Group, Société Générale, S&amp;P Global, Paypal, Volkswagen, and GSK.Mirantis also has technology partnerships with several companies, including Arm, Cisco, Entrust, and Fujitsu, and hardware vendors like Dell EMC, Intel, and Supermicro.

Formant is a monitoring and operations infrastructure that allows companies to monitor robot fleets, receive alerts, and embark on root cause analyses when something goes wrong. Its platform is built on a secure and scalable cloud stack that can integrate robotic applications and existing tools that lets clients with a cloud infrastructure aid in robotic automation. Founded by a team of former Google, Savioke, and Redwood Robotics software engineers, roboticists, and product managers—Formant believes that more efficient cloud infrastructure can help unlock the shared potential of humans and robots. The company was established in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Einride is a freight technology company providing digital, electric, and autonomous shipping. It was founded in 2016 and became the world’s first company to operate an autonomous, electric freight vehicle on a public road in 2019. Einride´s award-winning technology and products enable users to execute on electrification and automation, order and track shipments, oversee routes and assignments, visualize data and gain insights.

PubNub is a secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy-to-use API that enables our customers to connect, scale, and manage real-time applications and IoT devices. With over 70 SDKs for every platform, 250ms worldwide data transfer times, and scalability for hundreds of millions of devices, PubNub’s unique infrastructure gives the ability to easily connect and operate real-time applications and IoT devices.  PubNub is headquartered in San Francisco.

Founded in 2007 as a designated small business with manufacturing and corporate headquarters located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, ConcealFab Corporation® provides commercial wireless carriers and government customers with radio frequency (RF) transparent shelters and enclosures to protect and conceal sensitive communication equipment from public detection. They have prototyped, manufactured, and delivered hundreds of rooftop and ground based antenna concealment solutions to both commercial and government customers.   ConcealFab® RF-transparent patented technology is made from proprietary thermoplastic and advanced composite materials, fabricated into architectural shapes that Hide In Plain Sight®. End-user costs and production lead times are significantly lower than existing RF enclosure options and the company’s innovative, modular designs simplify field installation.  The launch of one of their newest product families — oDAS and Small Cell Wireless Solutions — has solidified ConcealFab's position as the leader in this emerging industry. ConcealFab Corporation's® oDAS and small cell wireless solutions are ideal for fiber infrastructure build-outs, upgrades and retrofit projects. Their standardized platform integrates with any antenna and radio configuration, effortlessly blends into urban/suburban environments, and withstands harsh weather conditions.    The full family of ConcealFab® solutions includes RF-transparent rooftop screenwalls and enclosures, quick-deploy maintenance shelters, antenna barns, mobile containers for tactical deception, oDAS and small cell wireless solutions, equipment integrated poles, and backlobe suppression units. They offer commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions as well as custom solutions tailor-made to accommodate your site-specific component requirements.

Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. It provides infrastructure and tools for fleet owners so they can focus on developing their applications and growing their fleets with as little friction as possible. Balena enables devices and their running services to be managed, monitored, and updated through the web dashboard or through its API, via the CLI and SDK. Balena was established in 2013.

Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative, visual data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate data pipelines, enabling consumable data at any scale. With universal data connectivity, Trifacta provides flexibility to connect to any data from any source for any application. Using an AI-assisted, self-service approach, Trifacta users can collaborate to evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, accelerate data transformation, and automate robust data pipelines. Trifacta’s open cloud platform drives increased business value through informed decisions. Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data engineering cloud platform. Learn more at https://www.trifacta.com

Cask, the open-source software company that makes building and running big data solutions easy, provides the first unified integration platform for big data that cuts down the time to production for data applications and data lakes by 80%. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company is backed by leading investors including Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ignition Partners.

Jolata provides solutions that help enterprises optimize their network performance. The Silicon Valley-based start-up has built a software solution for real-time network monitoring, analytics and performance optimization. It can monitor up to every packet on a global network with sub-second visualization. The Jolata TruFlow Platform is a big data analytics solution for precise and real-time performance monitoring, initially aimed at network operators in wireless/telecommunications, cable and enterprise/financial services environments.

Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. The company provides a public cloud experience on any infrastructure from the data center to the edge. With Lens and the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform, Mirantis empowers a new breed of Kubernetes developers by removing infrastructure and operations complexity and providing one cohesive cloud experience for complete app and DevOps portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management with continuous updates.

Pluribus Networks is delivering an open, next generation software defined network fabric for modern data centers, multi-site data centers and distributed cloud environments. The Linux-based Netvisor® ONE operating system and the Adaptive Cloud Fabric™ have been purpose built to deliver radically simplified networking along with white box economics by leveraging open networking hardware from our partners Dell EMC, D-Link Systems and Edgecore as well as Pluribus’ own Freedom Series of switches. The Adaptive Cloud Fabric controllerless SDN architecture distributes state and intelligence throughout the network fabric and is optimized to deliver rich and highly secure per-tenant services across data center sites with simple operations and no single point of failure. Pluribus Networks is also embedded in industry leading Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVi) and distributed cloud solutions which are being deployed in the networks of the world’s largest 5G service providers. Pluribus Networks is a founding member of the Linux Foundation’s LF Edge organization and a member of State of the Edge. Visit pluribusnetworks.com to learn more.

Adapteva, Inc. is a privately held semiconductor technology company based in Lexington, Massachusetts, founded in 2008.  Adapteva has developed the world's most energy efficient multicore microprocessor architecture, immediately boosting by an order of magnitude the number of cores that can be integrated on a single chip.  Adapteva's breakthrough architecture will have an immediate impact in a wide range of end user products from compact mobile devices to next generation supercomputers.  Adapteva’s groundbreaking Epiphany multicore architecture represents a new class of massively parallel computer architectures that is the future of computing and will disrupt a wide range of end markets from compact low power devices to next generation supercomputers. To enable parallel programming in heterogeneous environments, Adapteva is adopting an open source approach making the architecture, interface and programming information available to all.

Sand 9, Inc. is a venture funded startup company dedicated to the design of components that will dramatically improve the performance and increase the capabilities of wireless devices.

Skorpios Technologies provides gain materials, wafer-scale processes, direct detection, coherent, co-packaged optics, and lidar products. They also provide uncooled tunable laser technology and coherent transceiver devices. Their services include solution design, development, and production services.

Founded in 1999, Arantech is the premier provider of Customer Experience Management (CEM) systems to communications service providers worldwide.  Arantech's CEM solution radically transforms not only the way that operators service their customers but also the way their internal organisations respond to customer needs. This has made Arantech CEM both a catalyst for cultural change and a transformational force for its customers in terms of revenue and operational practice issues, as well as network issues.  Arantech has defined CEM as the ability to proactively monitor and manage, in real time, the lifecycle experience of every customer that comes into contact with the business or infrastructure of a communications provider. Arantech CEM manages the experience of an entire brand offering, monitoring customers at every point where they touch the business. Arantech's CEM solutions deliver actionable business and technical options, providing a 360-degree view of all customers, 24/7/365, in real time, over any network or device.

Terraplay Systems operates a global gaming network. It enables game publishers and developers, network operators, and service providers to offer games to a global gaming community and deliver gaming services across various channels. The company provides services, which include mobile storefronts, content download, gaming community, in-game payments, and multiplayer; and white label community sites, billing, and community wrappers. It also offers game developer training, support, consultancy, testing, network and handset knowledge, and tools services. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Solna, Sweden.

Metro-Optix develops hardware for telecommunications companies that want to transition from circuit-based services to cell- and packet-based services. The hardware essentially reduces the number of hardware boxes needed, such as routers, which the networks feed into.

Juniper Networks is a news network that designs, develops, and sells products and services, along with network infrastructure.

Ericsson specializes in information and communications technology services. The company's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software, broadband, and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises, and the media industry. The company's products include telephones, switches, mobile systems, semiconductors, and other products.

<div> Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERIC) is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. Founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson, the company is a worldwide leader in delivering Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions. Ericsson's business is organized into three main segments: <ul> <li> Networks: Provides products and solutions for mobile and fixed communication, including radio networks, core networks, and cloud infrastructure. </li> </ul> <ul> <li> Global Services: Offers network rollout services, managed services, customer support, consulting and systems integration. </li> </ul> <ul> <li> Support Solutions: Provides software-based solutions for Business Support Systems (BSS), Operations Support Systems (OSS), TV and media solutions, and mobile commerce. </li> </ul> Ericsson's core products include antennas, transmitters, switching systems and other equipment used to build wireless telecommunications networks. The company is a leading provider of 5G network equipment globally. In 2023, Ericsson reported net sales of SEK 271.5 billion (approximately USD 27.1 billion). North America accounted for about 33% of Ericsson's sales in 2023, making it the company's largest market. Ericsson has recently faced challenges due to a slowdown in 5G spending, particularly in North America. In March 2024, the company announced it would cut 1,200 jobs in Sweden, representing about 8.6% of its Swedish workforce, as part of ongoing cost reduction efforts. Ericsson is also focusing on expanding its enterprise business and cloud software capabilities. In 2022, the company completed its USD 6.2 billion acquisition of cloud communications provider Vonage to strengthen its position in enterprise and developer solutions. </div>

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A new generation for mobile connectivity with 5G and beyond

Next-gen Private Mobile Networks

Companies that offer 5G/6G connectivity solutions for enterprises to use in private telecommunications, using cell towers, base stations and other terrestrial infrastructure

Companies that offer 5G/6G connectivity solutions for enterprises for use in private telecommunications, using satellites and other space-based equipment

Companies that develop hardware and equipment for mobile service providers and enterprises to build, maintain and optimize private 5G/6G networks, including switches, antennas, microchips, and routers

Companies that develop next-generation software solutions for mobile service providers and enterprises to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure and network services

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Companies that develop content editing tools and production software

Companies that develop hardware for video broadcasting, such as film and broadcast cameras, video converters, recorders, and editing hardware

Companies that offer video acquisition and encoding solutions for media and broadcast applications

Companies that offer content streaming platforms for end customers

Imbuing emotion into human-digital interactions

Digital Humans

Digital humans that engage in two-way conversations for customer service and employee training

Digital humans that deliver responsive interactions for virtual events, social media, and entertainment

Interactive digital humans for applications in education, fashion, sports, and others

Digital humans for one-way customer and employee communications, including presentations, training modules, or informational videos, and the like

Digital humans as characters in movies, news reporting, virtual events, and television shows without two-way user interaction

Digital humans as characters for video games without two-way user interaction

Digital humans for applications in fashion, education, sports, and others without two-way user interaction

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for digital humans

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 Swisscom, a Swiss telecom operator, and Ericsson have broadened their strategic alliance to offer a standalone Mobile Private Network solution, MPN Private, aimed at businesses. The technology behind the solution is Ericsson's dual-mode core, which allows for 4G and 5G connectivity. This enables companies to run private, localized mobile networks independently on-site.
 The new offering caters to data-intensive communications required for applications such as mobile robots, digital twins, and a connected workforce, while ensuring on-premises protection for sensitive data.
 The collaboration takes forward Ericsson's existing role as the mobile network supplier for Swisscom. Over the next few months, Ericsson intends to broaden MPN services, with a particular focus on network modernization through automation and AI integration. 
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