Synaptiv

What Synaptiv does

Synaptiv is a London-based connected car platform founded in 2017 that helps fleets and car manufacturers monetize the data generated by their connected vehicles. The company's offering sits at the intersection of automotive IoT, fleet telematics, and data monetization, targeting enterprise customers (fleet operators and OEMs) that need to extract commercial value from the telemetry, driver behavior, and operational signals produced by their vehicles. Synaptiv operates with 11-50 employees under founder and CEO Matt Lewis, with Phil Hunter serving as Chief Data Scientist, indicating a technical organization built around data science capabilities applied to connected vehicle datasets.

The company's business model centers on enabling B2B data monetization services for automotive stakeholders rather than direct-to-consumer offerings. Early-stage capital came primarily from InMotion Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Jaguar Land Rover, which closed a seed round of approximately $194,492 in February 2017 alongside an earlier $123,883 tranche in January 2017, totaling roughly $318,375 in disclosed funding. The strategic relationship with JLR's CVC implies preferential access to a major OEM's connected fleet and positions the company within the automotive OEM ecosystem. No follow-on funding rounds, named enterprise customers, disclosed pricing, or active product updates are present in the available data, and the synaptiv.ai web domain currently resolves to a generic parking page rather than an active commercial site, which is a notable negative signal for ongoing commercial activity.

Name

Synaptiv

Website

https://synaptiv.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Synaptiv is a London-based connected car platform, founded in 2017, that helps fleets and car manufacturers monetize data generated by their connected vehicles through data analytics services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Connected Vehicle Data Platform

NAICS

Other Support Activities for Transportation (4889)

SIC

Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

V2X Message & Data Exchange Platforms (SPaT/MAP, TIM, CAM/DENM Brokers) (TLAJAHAF)

Keywords

• Connected car platform
• Vehicle data monetization
• Fleet telematics
• Automotive data analytics
• Connected vehicle software

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Domain Registration: Domain name registration services with various TLDs (.com, .org, .net, .co, .xyz, .ai, etc.)
2. Shared Hosting: Cloud-based shared hosting with scalable plans, high-performance servers, and free SSL certificates
3. Encrypted Email (Spacemail): Encrypted branded email service for secure business communications

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Synaptiv provides a connected car platform that enables fleet operators and car manufacturers to monetize the data generated by their connected vehicles. The platform ingests vehicle telemetry and usage data and turns it into insights and revenue opportunities for automotive customers.

Product overview

No product information available. The synaptiv.ai domain is currently displaying a parking/placeholder page from Spaceship, Inc., indicating the domain is registered but not yet developed as an active company website. The page offers domain registration, shared hosting, and encrypted email services by Spaceship, not Synaptiv.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Synaptiv Connected Car Platform

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Wejo: Wejo is a connected vehicle data platform that aggregates OEM telemetry and monetises it for mobility, infrastructure, and insurance customers — directly comparable to Synaptiv's fleet/OEM data-monetisation positioning.
• Otonomo: Otonomo operates a connected car data marketplace serving OEMs, fleets, insurers, and smart-city players — the same target segments and use cases Synaptiv targets.
• High Mobility: High Mobility provides a developer platform for OEM-grade connected car data, with similar data-monetisation and API-based delivery to Synaptiv's B2B focus.

Emerging players

• Platform Science: Platform Science builds a connected vehicle platform for fleets and commercial vehicles with an app marketplace — overlapping with Synaptiv's fleet/connected-vehicle software ambitions.
• Smartcar: Smartcar offers a connected car API platform for fleet, mobility, and insurance apps — overlapping with Synaptiv's data-access and monetisation layer but typically positioned further down the stack for developers.
• Caruso (Caruso Dataplace): Caruso Dataplace is a European connected-vehicle data platform for OEMs, fleets and service providers — comparable scope and target customer set to Synaptiv.

Broad incumbents

• Verizon Connect: Verizon Connect is a major fleet telematics and connected-vehicle incumbent — adjacent overlap with Synaptiv on fleet data monetisation and analytics.
• Geotab: Geotab is a large fleet telematics incumbent with deep vehicle data collection and analytics capabilities — adjacent to Synaptiv's fleet/monetisation use cases though anchored in hardware telematics.
• Samsara: Samsara is a public fleet telematics and IoT incumbent — adjacent rather than direct, but the most visible buyer of fleet data and therefore a frequent partner/competitor for OEM-and-fleet data platforms.
• Inseego (Ctrack): Inseego supplies telematics hardware and SaaS for connected fleets — adjacent to Synaptiv as a fleet-data provider, though heavier on hardware.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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