Zendrive has raised $ 13.5 million via a Series A funding round backed by BMW . The startup that uses smartphone sensors to measure drivers ' behaviour will use the cash to expand its team and strengthen its technology . Developed with one of its investors, BMW, and tested at BMW’s crash-test facilities, the technology detects collisions in real time, allowing any car containing a smartphone to notify a call center or emergency contact, thereby reducing the time required to deliver a first response. Zendrive measures behaviour on mobile devices versus the vehicle and it will become increasingly relevant to on - demand services especially where there may be more than one driver per vehicle . The technology also has an advantage over onboard diagnostics ports which have enabled hackers to remotely take control over cars as smartphones do not pose the same kind of security threat .
Zendrive has raised $ 13.5 million via a Series A funding round backed by BMW . The startup that uses smartphone sensors to measure drivers ' behaviour will use the cash to expand its team and strengthen its technology . Zendrive measures behaviour on mobile devices versus the vehicle and it will become increasingly relevant to on - demand services especially where there may be more than one driver per vehicle . The technology also has an advantage over onboard diagnostics ports which have enabled hackers to remotely take control over cars as smartphones do not pose the same kind of security threat .