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Madison, WI – AiDEN Auto, a connected vehicle consent management & 2-way communication platform, announced their graduation from the 2023/2024 Risk stream of the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) program at the University of Wisconsin. Aiden provides OEMs their own branded services platform and a free license enabling OEMs to deliver and monetize in-vehicle services with no integration, no coding, and no additional costs.
For service providers like parking, charging, insurance, contextual advertising, in-vehicle shopping, Aiden provides the first services platform to stream 2-way communication directly with the vehicle and across vehicle brands, enabling service providers to proactively deliver the services drivers need exactly when the driver needs them.
The AiDEN platform also solves the data privacy issue by providing 100% GDPR and CCPA-compliant consent management enabling car owners to choose which digital services they want and who they want to share their data with.
After being selected for the CDL program from over 600 applicant companies, AiDEN Auto is among 10 ventures in the latest cohort to graduate. “There is no question we emerged as a different company than when we started 8 months prior. Through the CDL network and the advice we received throughout the program, we now have a clear path to our next major revenue inflection point and clarity around what our company will look like as we scale to tens of thousands of vehicles,” said Niclas Gyllenram, AiDEN Auto’s CEO & Co-founder. “The depth of expertise and raw intelligence in the room at CDL is just humbling, everyone from leading academic luminaries of AI through to entrepreneurs who have built billion-dollar companies from the ground up. CDL gave us the chance to sit down with dozens of incredible thought leaders and get insight and advice for how to move AiDEN Auto forward in every way,” said Syed Mubeen Saifullah, Aiden’s COO & Co-founder.
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About AiDEN Auto
Imagine a world where your vehicle anticipates your every need, delivering tailored services to you in an instant. Experience the seamless integration of third-party digital services directly into your vehicle, elevating your driving experience to new heights. With AiDEN, the ultimate in-car convenience is at your fingertips. Aiden provides OEMs with their own branded miniApp Platform & the first miniApps store for cars and a free license enabling OEMs to deliver and monetize miniApps with no integration, no coding, and no additional costs. For service providers, like parking, charging, insurance, contextual advertising, in-vehicle shopping, The Aiden miniApps Platform & the first miniApps store for cars enable streaming 2-way communication directly with the vehicle and across vehicle brands, enabling service providers to deliver the services drivers proactively need exactly when the driver needs them.
The Aiden platform also solves the data privacy issue by providing 100% GDPR and CCPA-compliant consent management enabling car owners to choose which miniApps they want and who they want to share their data with.
About the Creative Destruction Lab
The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. The nine-month program employs an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation. The CDL is particularly suited to early-stage companies with links to university research labs. Launched in 2012 at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, the program has now expanded with locations in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax, and New York City. Companies that graduated from the Lab’s first five cohorts between 2012 and 2017 have generated more than $2.5 billion (CAD) in aggregate equity value. CDL graduates include Atomwise (San Francisco), Deep Genomics (Toronto), Thalmic Labs (Waterloo), Nymi (Toronto), Automat (Montreal), BenchSci (Toronto), Kyndi (Palo Alto), Kepler (Toronto), and Heuritech (Paris).
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