SDVerse

🎄 Wishing You a Happy New Year and a Joyous Holiday Season! ✨ As the year draws to a close, we reflect on an incredible journey. The launch of SDVerse wouldn’t have been possible without the support of our amazing launch partners and all of our valued members. Your collaboration and trust have been instrumental in achieving this milestone. Thank you for being part of our story this year! Here's to an innovative and successful 2025 ahead. From all of us at SDVerse, we wish you a Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a prosperous New Year! #SDVerse #ThankYou #MerryChristmas #Innovation #AutomotiveSoftware #SoftwareSourcing

📢 We’re excited to welcome Methodica Technologies to the SDVerse marketplace! Methodica Technologies brings extensive expertise in embedded development, system validation, and automation, enhancing our ecosystem for the software-defined vehicle (SDV) era. By joining SDVerse, Methodica helps ensure our marketplace remains a one-stop destination for OEMs to access cutting-edge solutions that accelerate development timelines, optimize resources, and deliver vehicles to market faster. Welcome aboard, Methodica Technologies! #MethodicaTechnologies #SDVerse #AutomotiveSoftware #SDV #SoftwareDefinedVehicles #AutomotiveSoftwareDiscovery

We know your CES schedule can get full, please consider a meeting with SDVerse to review how we may help your business.

By the Industry - For the industry. Look forward to meeting with you at CES! #CES2025 #SDV #Innovation

The U.S. Automotive Industry: Heading Towards a Breaking Point The U.S. automotive sector stands at a crossroads, grappling with the twin forces of rapid innovation and intense global competition. The GLC white paper, "The U.S. Automotive Industry at Risk," offers a compelling deep dive into the challenges and opportunities shaping the industry’s future. What’s Inside? -There is a perfect storm of disruptive changes hitting the industry at the same time. -How China’s approach to innovation and market agility is redefining global dominance. -As the U.S. loses automotive manufacturing, it also loses defense capabilities and threatens our national security. -The challenges the automotive industry faces are largely invisible to the country’s political leadership. It is going to be up to the industry leaders to change that. -One positive development- the U.S automotive industry is working together on a shared software portal (SDVerse) to collectively drive innovation, tackle industry challenges, and accelerate product development. This white paper challenges industry leaders, policymakers, and stakeholders to rethink traditional models and forge a path toward collaboration and innovation. Download your copy and explore the full analysis here: https://lnkd.in/ezsnb22q Dive into this essential read and join the conversation on how we can collectively shape the future of the automotive industry. See the software platform mentioned in this whitepaper at #CES2025. Innovation Lounge #310, 3rd Floor West Hall #AutomotiveInnovation #USAutoIndustry #GLC2024 #SDVerse

The automotive industry is evolving at an unprecedented pace—shifting from Steel to Software. In his latest feature for Manufacturing Today, our CTO, Praveen Yalavarty, takes a deep dive into the transformative journey of the industry, tracing its progression from hardware-centric manufacturing to the cutting-edge era of Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). He also highlights how SDVerse, our groundbreaking vehicle software marketplace, will drive this transformation by accelerating the commercialization of automotive software, fostering transparency, and championing collaboration across the industry. #SoftwareDefinedVehicles #AutomotiveIndustry #SDVs #AutomotiveInnovation

Beyond Transactions: What Nobel Prize-Winning Market Design Tells Us About Industry Evolution - In 2012, Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on market design and matching theory. This achievement underscored a profound insight: marketplaces are more than transactional hubs - they're fundamental mechanisms that shape how society allocates resources and opportunities. Over 7,000 years of marketplace evolution reveal a consistent pattern: successful marketplaces emerge to address the critical and unique challenges of their time. Ancient bazaars standardized trade protocols for strangers. Medieval fairs introduced escrow and credit systems. Amazon's pivot in 2000 demonstrated the power of ecosystems over inventory ownership, while Airbnb and Uber unlocked new value by transforming underutilized assets into vibrant economies. Today, we're witnessing another pivotal shift: the rise of vertical marketplaces that embed themselves within industry workflows. While horizontal platforms excel at scale, these specialized marketplaces are transforming entire sectors through deep domain expertise and purpose-built infrastructure. Vertical marketplaces excel at complex functions: enabling sophisticated discovery in fragmented markets, facilitating optimal matchmaking based on nuanced requirements, supporting structured communication between stakeholders, and maximizing the use of existing industry resources. Three key lessons emerge from marketplace evolution, building on Roth and Shapley's foundational work in market design: 1. Value Creation Beyond Transactions: The most impactful marketplaces don't just bring participants together - they create entirely new forms of value through their interactions, transforming how industries operate. 2. Beyond Network Effects: Modern platforms succeed by building competitive advantages through deep specialization and infrastructure - enabling efficient discovery, matching, and smooth, scalable interactions. 3. Infrastructure for Transformation: Today's successful marketplaces aren't just venues for commerce - they're essential infrastructure for innovation, embedding sophisticated workflow tools that reshape how industries collaborate and grow. Looking ahead: Industries undergoing transformation need more than just transactional systems - they need fundamental infrastructure that embeds into workflows and enables new forms of innovation and value creation. The automotive industry embodies the complex challenges that Roth and Shapley studied. As we advance toward software, electrification, autonomy, and next-generation mobility, we stand at a moment of extraordinary possibility - where the mechanisms we create today will shape not just the future of vehicles, but of transportation itself. By Prashant Gulati, CEO SDVerse #Marketplaces #Innovation #Automotive #AutomotiveSoftware

📢 We’re thrilled to welcome Bosch Engineering GmbH to SDVerse! Bosch Engineering, a global leader in engineering services and mobility solutions, joins the SDVerse marketplace to showcase innovative solutions in software-defined vehicle (SDV) space. This collaboration brings cutting-edge performance and specialized engineering services to the SDVerse marketplace – solutions designed to drive the automotive industry towards a software-defined future. Key highlights: ▪ Bosch Engineering's offerings will expand the SDVerse ecosystem with solutions that span from embedded systems to cloud services, supporting every stage of the vehicle lifecycle—from concept to operational use. ▪ SDVerse’s marketplace simplifies software sourcing, enabling buyers to efficiently discover, compare, and procure software solutions, enhancing make-vs-buy decision-making and accelerating automotive software tools and services procurement. ▪ This collaboration marks a significant step toward SDVerse’s goal of driving innovation, transparency, and efficiency in automotive software. Learn more about Bosch Engineering and SDVerse collaboration: https://lnkd.in/ggb_PVfp A special thank you to Joe Capuano and Arnaud Fessard from Bosch Engineering for their invaluable partnership. #BoschEngineering #SDV #SoftwareDefinedVehicles #Automotive #AutomotiveSoftware

In case you missed it - sharing our groundbreaking white paper "Computer on Wheels: The Missing Market" developed in collaboration with Roland Berger. Key insights that are even more relevant as we approach the next year: 📈 OEM in-vehicle software costs have risen 14% annually since 2021, reaching $38B in 2024 💻 Only 10% of automotive software is sold as standalone products 🚧 68% of industry leaders identify lack of software commercialization as a key hurdle 💰 Without transitioning to a software-defined approach, OEM software spending could hit $59B by 2030   The paper explores how software commercialization will accelerate advancement of software-defined vehicles (SDVs), and why a robust marketplace is crucial for the industry's transformation.   Featuring insights from industry leaders at General Motors, Magna International, Wipro, FEV Group, FORVIA, HL Mando, NXP Semiconductors, TTTech Auto, Valeo, and others.   For more analysis and insights, read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/dnx3tEHP #SDV #SoftwareDefinedVehicle #AutomotiveSoftware #AutomotiveSoftwareProcurement #OnlineMarketplace

In a recent discussion, our Chief Commercial Officer, Jeff Walker, shared insights into SDVerse’s fast start and our exciting plans for the future. The demand we’re seeing confirms just how pivotal a centralized, digital marketplace is for the automotive industry. As vehicles evolve into complex, software-defined machines, SDVerse is poised to accelerate software discovery, promote IP reuse, and drive standardization in automotive software. #SDV #softwaredefinedvehicle #automotive #innovation #technology #future #software #standardization