A minority-stake position in the Israel-based mobility sector AI startup Anagog has been purchased by Porsche Digital, with the idea being to complement its existing "digital innovation" portfolio.

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Porsche Buys Minority Stake In Mobility AI Startup Anagog

A minority-stake position in the Israel-based mobility sector AI startup Anagog has been purchased by Porsche Digital, with the idea being to complement its existing “digital innovation” portfolio.

James Ayre

Published

April 8, 2018

As some background here, the Israeli firm was founded back in 2010 and is focused pretty much solely on the development of artificial intelligence systems to be used in the context of mobility services.

Also notable is that Daimler also took a minority position on the company not that long back.

A press release on the matter (via Green Car Congress) notes that “Anagog’s system architecture provides on-device mobility status detection, with cloud-based processing power, deep learning, and an analytics platform. Modern smartphones have up to 15 different types of sensors. Anagog’s state machine, combined with machine learning technology, allows it to collect the raw sensor data directly from the source. It then analyzes and aggregates the sensor data on each handset in real-time, in order to determine user activity levels and location.

“Software programmed and patented by Anagog thus allows companies better to understand and anticipate customer behavior in certain situations, leading to features such as intelligent parking options being created. With this investment, Porsche is continuing to drive digital transformation and as a result can now develop and offer context-based and personalized services.”

As it stands, the Anagog tech is already integrated into more than 100 different smartphone apps worldwide. Further expansion is of course now planned.

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Written By James Ayre

James Ayre's background is predominantly in geopolitics and history, but he has an obsessive interest in pretty much everything. After an early life spent in the Imperial Free City of Dortmund, James followed the river Ruhr to Cofbuokheim, where he attended the University of Astnide. And where he also briefly considered entering the coal mining business. He currently writes for a living, on a broad variety of subjects, ranging from science, to politics, to military history, to renewable energy.