Olympian Motors

Automotive Industrials Augmented Reality Consumer Electric Vehicle

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New York, NY, USAFounded 202110+ employeesSeed raisedSeedPrivate

Last round: equity crowdfunding · $1.3M · Sep 2024(3 rounds total)

“Next-generation, modular electric vehicles”

Backed by(4 investors)

Collaborative FundY CombinatorClimate CapitalDVC

Olympian Motors is an electric vehicle startup, based in New York. Olympian is manufacturing electric vehicles with a proprietary modular system, providing strong cost and lead-time advantages. Olympian developed a new modular-vehicle and modular-manufacturing model. That provides +80% reduction in tooling & labor costs and ~60% faster production lead time. It radically shortened design-to-production period from 4+ years to only 6 months.

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About the Company

Olympian Motors is a new, disruptive automaker, building unique, aesthetic, minimalistic, software-defined electric vehicles.
Our unique Olympian Operating System (OOS) enables 'data privacy-first' user experience and radically minimalistic cockpit.
Olympian has a unique fully 'fabless' production model in the U.S., running an asset-light operation with no CAPEX or no front R&D - unlike other conventional EV companies in the U.S

Tech Stack

Olympian Operating System (OOS) provides a radically minimalistic cockpit UX for drivers & passengers
OOS secures military grade 'data privacy-first' architecture from chipset to middleware and cloud
Leveraging modular skateboard EV platform architecture
Running an asset-light operation unlike other EV companies in the U.S. (No CAPEX, no in-house factory, no front R&D requirement)

Building the Olympian Operating System (OOS) to provide minimalistic cockpit experience

Experience-first Operating System
Key Stacks: QNX/Blackberry, AWS and Android Automotive
Providing a radically simplified driver experience. +60% of use cases are automatized
Enabled by augmented reality HUD, voice-assistant, and head/eye tracking applications
No 2D display screens
Eliminated 80% of redundant buttons, switches, and panels in the cockpit

Founders

Eren Canarslan

Building the next-generation electric vehicles at Olympian. Prior to Olympian Motors, Eren was working at Qualcomm, focused on autonomous driving, electric vehicles and satellites. Previously, Eren worked at multiple VC funds in New York and investment banks in Europe. He started his professional career at Ford Motors R&D department as an electrical engineer. He holds an MBA degree from Columbia University, and a BSc Degree in Electronics Engineering.

Jasmine Sungu

Previously a Business Development Lead at Cisco. Prior to that, Jasmine worked at IBM & EY as a managing consultant in the automotive and mobility industry. She started her career at Merrill Lynch as a BD analyst. She holds a BA in Economics from NYU.