Company
Started with boats. Built for every vehicle.
c.technology AG builds and runs the vehicle data platform that manufacturers put their own name on. It started in Zurich in 2020, out of a boat-sharing platform, and today connects 50,000+ vehicles in 60+ countries, from electric outboards to motorcycles.
01The record
Six years, in dates.
Outboards, motorcycles, farm machines, commercial vehicles. Engineered in Zurich, with 50,000+ vehicles connected today.
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Zurich
Founded, out of the boat-sharing platform Ship-Ahoy
2020
Founded
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GANZ+
Boats connected to the platform
2021
First boats live
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Light electric scooters from Switzerland
2022
First two-wheelers
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- Q3
Electric outboards
- Q3
Electric motorcycles
- Q4
Boats, connected at the factory
- Q4
Seed round with new strategic investors
2023
1,500 vehicles
- Q3
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- Q2
Torqeedo × Yamaha
Yamaha acquires Torqeedo, the platform comes along
- Q4
25,000 vehicles
17× growth in one year, across all manufacturers
2024
26,000 vehicles
- Q2
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- Q2
The collaboration starts, through Open Bosch
3,500 dealers
The Yamaha Marine dealer network, through Torqeedo
- Q3
The platform off the shelf for smaller manufacturers, live in under a month
- Q4
North America and Europe
- Q4
BRP Switzerland
The importer, for dealers and rental
2025
46,500 vehicles
- Q2
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- Q2
Farm and forestry machines, with Bosch
- Q2
Four vehicle types
Boats, two-wheelers, powersports and commercial vehicles on one platform
- Q2
EMCO
Electric scooters from Germany
- Q3
Open Innovation Award, Scaling of the Year, with Bosch Mobility
- Q3
50,000+ vehicles
Connected, with 9+ manufacturers on the platform
- Q4
YMC Land Mobility
Pilot: connected Yamaha NEO'S scooters for marinas and resorts
Every process AI-enabled, every change tested and owned by an engineer
- Q4
Bosch
Strategic partnership for commercial vehicles
2026
50,000+ vehicles
- Q2
Sep 2026 · IAA Transportation
Open Innovation Award 2026, Scaling of the Year, for the joint solution with Bosch Mobility.
02What we do, and why
Every manufacturer was building the same thing.
Vehicles are connected now. What sits on top should not take three years.
We started with boats, on a sharing platform, and saw what the manufacturers we met were doing: hiring a team to connect their vehicles, building an app, a dealer portal and a backend, and spending years on the part that is the same for everyone. The part that makes their brand different came last, if at all.
So we built that common part once, for every vehicle type, and run it for manufacturers under their own name. We think of it as the c.technology triangle: the manufacturer, its partners and the driver, each with their own product, all on one record of the vehicle. Manufacturers buy the foundation and build only what makes them different.
c.technology is the company and the platform. coride ↗ is our own brand of it, for fleets, dealers and workshops that do not build vehicles.
03How we work
A focused team in Zurich, AI throughout.
Engineers who own what they ship, a product the founders still run, and a habit of saying exactly what the platform does and nothing more.
People own the decisions
AI agents help in every process, from planning and code to support and release notes. An engineer directs every change and decides what ships. How we build →
Tested before it ships
Every pull request runs the full regression, the apps clicked through end to end, staging comes before production, and an AI agent is on every alert.
Precise about what is real
We say "we serve the firmware", not "we update your vehicle". We mark what is next as next. A manufacturer has to be able to sign what we write.
The owner comes first
Only the owner sees where a vehicle is. We do not sell data, and no manufacturer ever sees another's vehicles.
04The people
Who builds it, and who oversees it.
An engineering company in Zurich. The founders still run product, technology and the business.
| Leadership team | Role |
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| Christian Fehr ↗ | Co-founder and CEO |
| Dominik Bucher, PhD ↗ | Co-founder and CTO |
| Julian Brönnimann ↗ | Co-founder and Head of Product |
| René Buffat, PhD ↗ | Head of Cloud Systems |
| Adrian Hauser ↗ | IoT Data Science Lead |
| David Haug ↗ | Growth and Partnerships |
| Bettina Keller | People and Culture |
A compact team in Zurich. AI is part of every process, in engineering, support and operations; people own the decisions.
| Board of directors | Also |
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| Fabio Magagna, PhD ↗ | Chairman · Google |
| Nicholas Paraskevas | Formerly Glencore |
| Nico Niesper ↗ | Palisis Group |
| Christen Oesterbye ↗ | Advisor to the EIC for AI |
05For investors
Why this, and why now.
c.technology is backed by investors since its seed round in 2023, which brought in new strategic investors. If you are thinking about joining them, here is how we see it.
Every vehicle is getting connected
Motorcycles, boats, e-bikes, tractors, campers: the vehicles that never had a modem now ship with one, and their owners expect an app the day they buy. Most of their manufacturers have no software team to match.
Regulation makes it mandatory
Since 12 September 2026 the EU Data Act requires connected products placed on the EU market to give users access to their data by design. Every manufacturer now needs the access model we already run. The Data Act →
A platform that grows with its network
Each manufacturer brings its dealers, service partners and fleets, and multi-brand dealers bring the next manufacturer. The more of them are on it, the more it is worth to each one.
The record speaks
From the first boats in 2021 to 50,000+ vehicles connected with 9+ manufacturers in 2026, and the Open Innovation Award with Bosch Mobility. The dates are above, the posts since 2022 on the blog.
06The company
The facts a procurement team asks for.
In one place, so nobody has to email for them.
- Legal name
- c.technology AG
- Register
- CHE-384.751.094
- Commercial register
- Zurich
- Founded
- 2020
- Address
- Stockerstrasse 33, 8002 Zurich
- Governing law
- Swiss
- Connected vehicles
- 50,000+
- Countries
- 60+
- Manufacturers
- 9+
- Funding
- Seed round 2023, strategic investors
- Hosting
- AWS and Google Cloud, Frankfurt
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07Careers
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