Metamoto technology to be incorporated into the Foretellix platform to meet growing demand from OEMs and Tier1s and ease integration with simulator partners

Tel Aviv, Israel – October 7th, 2020 – Foretellix, a company with a mission to enable measurable safety for advanced automatic driving systems, announced today that it will acquire Metamoto, developer of a cloud-based solution for testing and validation of automotive software.

Incorporating Metamoto’s expertise and technology will assist Foretellix in accelerating its roadmap, providing OEMs and Tier 1s with a best in class, simulator agnostic verification & Validation solution. The Foretellix solution helps to expose bugs and edge cases early in the development cycle; reduce the cost of testing using intelligent automation and reduce time to deployment.

Ziv Binyamini, CEO and co-founder of Foretellix, said: “The automotive industry is experiencing rapid changes following the accelerated adoption of ADAS and autonomous driving systems and the impact of COVID19. We are hearing from our customers that these two factors have made the need for virtual testing and automation of verification & validation more relevant for them. At Metamoto, we found a like-minded team of professionals who share our approach and commitment to safety. Their expertise will help us provide better integration with our simulator partners and expedite the development of our cloud infrastructure. We’re looking forward to working together to provide the most comprehensive verification solution for the automotive industry.”

Paul Scott, CTO of Metamoto said: “We’re excited to join forces with Team Foretellix. We share a similar vision on how complex verification & validation of ADAS and autonomous vehicles should look. Like Fortellix, over the past year, we’ve seen growing customer interest in making our scalable infrastructure simulator agnostic. We believe that Foretellix’s solution is a key ingredient to the safe and broad deployment of new ADAS functions and eventually autonomous vehicles. We are excited to take part in this journey.”

Following the acquisition, Foretellix will open a US R&D center to expand its US operation. The combined Metamoto and Foretellix team will comprise approximately 60 employees in the US, Europe and Israel.

Foretellix was represented in this transaction by Adv. Shay Dayan and Adv. Kay Geller from Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano & Co. Metamoto was represented by Telegraph Hill Advisors and the Ridless Law Office.

About Foretellix

Foretellix’s mission is to enable ‘measurable safety’ of autonomous vehicles, enabled by a transition from ‘quantity of miles’ to ‘quality of coverage’.

Foretellix was founded by a team of pioneers in measurable verification and validation, with a highly automated and proven coverage driven methodology broadly adopted in the semiconductor industry. They have adapted and tailored their approach for the safety verification and validation of autonomous vehicles.

Foretellix’s Foretify™ Technology includes an open, high-level Measurable Scenario Description Language (M-SDL), intelligent and scalable automation, analytics and metrics. This includes the functional coverage metrics required to make a compelling ‘safety case’ to consumers, developers, insurance companies and regulators. To learn more, visit www.foretellix.com/.

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Europe
Mike Stainton
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Foretellix’s ADAS and Highway Solution has been developed with input from carmakers, suppliers, and regulators

• Turnkey solution includes an out-of-the-box verification plan and a library of scenarios that automatically generates hundreds of thousands of meaningful tests and edge cases
• Includes extensive big data analytics tools
• Solution applicable for current-generation Level 2 ADAS technologies through Level 5 autonomous vehicles, helping ensure their safe deployment

Tel Aviv, Israel – September 1^st, 2020 – Foretellix, an Israel-based start-up with a mission to enable measurable safety of automated driving systems, today released a new solution that offers the capability to verify the safety of ADAS functions at an unprecedented scale. This first-of-its-kind solution provides a turnkey verification solution that requires minimal integration with existing testing infrastructure. An out-of-the-box verification plan and a library of scenarios that automatically creates hundreds of thousands of meaningful tests and edge cases. The result is that testing can, more comprehensively and meaningfully, cover the vast depth and breadth of scenario variation to determine that an ADAS system is safe.

The company’s ADAS and Highway Solution is the first of a family of verification packages that harness its Foretify coverage-driven verification platform. The new solution addresses the unique challenges of different ADAS and autonomous vehicle functions, from Level 2 driver-assist technologies, through Level 3 semi-autonomous systems, and on to Level 4 highway-focused fully autonomous systems. This allows for the verification of various ADAS functions, including automatic emergency breaking (AEB), automated lane keeping systems (ALKS), and others that are becoming commonly available in new models of cars and trucks.

The ADAS and Highway Solution was developed with the benefit of customer input, data from past accidents, technology limitations, upcoming regulations, safety standards, and disengagement reports. As such, it delivers the industry’s most effective solution for exposing bugs and verifying the quality and reliability of ADAS and AV systems.

“The growing complexity of ADAS and AV systems is presenting a new verification challenge to the automotive industry,” said Ziv Binyamini, CEO and co-founder of Foretellix. “We are passionate about verification and have the right solution and methodology to meet with this challenge and ensure the safety of these advanced automated driving systems.”

The need for better verification is highlighted by ongoing OEM recalls and a recent report from the American Automobile Association (AAA) recommends limiting the use of Level 2 partially automated driving systems due to its research discovering major flaws in the technologies installed in current generation vehicles from global car makers.

The novel Foretellix ADAS and Highway Solution is already in use with some customers, including leading OEMs, Tier 1 technology developers and regulators.

About Foretellix

Foretellix’s mission is to enable ‘measurable safety’ of autonomous vehicles, enabled by a transition from ‘quantity of miles’ to ‘quality of coverage’.

Foretellix was founded by a team of pioneers in measurable verification and validation, with a highly automated and proven coverage driven methodology broadly adopted in the semiconductor industry. They have adapted and tailored their approach for the safety verification and validation of autonomous vehicles.

Foretellix’s Foretify™ Technology includes an open, high-level Measurable Scenario Description Language (M-SDL), intelligent and scalable automation, analytics and metrics. This includes the functional coverage metrics required to make a compelling ‘safety case’ to consumers, developers, insurance companies and regulators. To learn more, visit www.foretellix.com/.

© Copyright 2020 Foretellix

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North America
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scott@fosgardpr.com

Europe
Mike Stainton
+44 7739 891040
mike.stainton@pfpr.com

Companies implement integrated toolchain for coverage-driven verification of ADAS and automated driving systems

Tel Aviv, Israel – June 1^st, 2020 – Foretellix, an Israel-based start-up with a mission to enable measurable safety of automated driving systems, today announced a new technology solution with VIRES  part of Hexagon – that improves the quality of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle testing through intelligent data-driven automation.

The new integrated workflow, which connects Foretellix’s Foretify platform with the VIRES Virtual Test Drive (VTD) simulation software to provide coverage-driven verification, was unveiled during the Virtual Test Drive event series on Wednesday 27th May.

Foretellix develops the Foretify™ platform, for intelligent verification automation and analytics of automated driving systems. The platform includes:

1. a Measurable Scenario Description Language (M-SDL) used to describe both scenarios and coverage goals at a very high level
2. automation to generate combinations of combinations of scenario variants along with monitors to check and track scenario coverage
3. the ability to aggregate coverage data from the execution across all testing platforms (test vehicles, test tracks, simulation, X-in-the-loop)
4. analytics and metrics for developers to know where they are, what to do next, when they’re done

VIRES Virtual Test Drive (VTD) is a robust and comprehensive simulation suite used to test advanced driver-assistance systems and automated driving systems. It enables the design of 3D environments and scenarios to simulate complex traffic scenarios and edge cases with high accuracy. Highly modular and based on open standards, it connects with third party software and hardware to enable SiL, DiL, ViL, and HiL testing with test rigs, training simulators or sensors.

Both companies actively support an open ADAS and AV ecosystem and contribute to open standardization efforts and are involved in ASAM (Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems).

“Foretellix is excited to collaborate with VIRES in order to bring our joint customers a comprehensive simulation and verification solution, that also supports our mutual belief in open standards for the benefit of the automotive ecosystem,” said Ziv Binyamini, CEO of Foretellix.

“Getting autonomous vehicles to market is a challenge that requires unprecedented collaboration across the ecosystem, especially to verify the safe operation of automated driving systems. Open data and continuous collaboration are absolutely paramount. We are happy to integrate our tools with emerging technologies such as Foretellix that can offer customers new ways to address these challenges,” said Luca Castignani, Chief Automotive Strategist, MSC Software, part of Hexagon.

About Foretellix

Foretellix’s mission is to enable ‘measurable safety’ of autonomous vehicles, enabled by a transition from ‘quantity of miles’ to ‘quality of coverage’.

Foretellix was founded by a team of pioneers in measurable verification and validation, with a highly automated and proven coverage driven methodology broadly adopted in the semiconductor industry. They have adapted and tailored their approach for the safety verification and validation of autonomous vehicles.

Foretellix’s Foretify™ Technology includes an open, high-level Measurable Scenario Description Language (M-SDL), intelligent and scalable automation, analytics and metrics. This includes the functional coverage metrics required to make a compelling ‘safety case’ to consumers, developers, insurance companies and regulators. To learn more, visit www.foretellix.com/.

About Hexagon | VIRES

Hexagon is a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, and quality across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, safety, and mobility applications.

Our technologies are shaping urban and production ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.

VIRES, part of Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, provides industry-leading simulation platforms and services that enable the research, development and validation of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), active safety systems and autonomous mobility technologies. Learn more at vires.com. Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division provides solutions that utilize data from design and engineering, production and metrology to make manufacturing smarter.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 21,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 3.9bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB

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Europe
Mike Stainton
+44 7739 891040
mike.stainton@pfpr.com

VIRES
Robin Wolstenholme
+44(0)7407 642190
robin.wolstenholme@mscsoftware.com

Leaders in safety validation and simulation testing sign cooperation agreement to bring coverage-driven verification of ADAS and automated driving systems to Japanese automotive industry

Tel Aviv, Israel – July 2nd, 2020 – Foretellix, an Israel-based start-up with a mission to enable measurable safety of automated driving systems, announced today a new collaboration with Virtual Mechanics Corporation (VMC)  to promote the adoption of the Foretify™ platform for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicle testing in Japan.

Developed by Foretellix, the Foretify™ platform, provides intelligent verification automation and analytics of automated driving systems. The platform includes:

1. Measurable Scenario Description Language (M-SDL) used to describe both scenarios and coverage goals at a very high-level
2. Automation to generate “combinations of combinations” of valid scenario variants along with monitors to check and track scenario coverage and KPI’s
3. The ability to aggregate coverage data from across all testing platforms (e.g. street driving, test tracks, simulation, X-in-the-loop)
4. Analytics and metrics for developers to know where they are, what to do next and when they are finished.

“We are excited to work with VMC to deliver Foretify™ to the Japanese market. We understand the value of working closely with a strong local partner to support our customers in Japan” said Ziv Binyamini, CEO and co-founder of Foretellix.

VMC has over 20 years of experience and established relationships in the Japanese automotive industry. “Foretify™ is a unique technology that significantly reduces physical testing and dramatically increases development efficiency and safety. VMC is pleased to work with Foretellix to accelerate ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle technology safety validation in Japan,” said Eiji Takita, VMC president and CEO.

About Foretellix

Foretellix’s mission is to enable ‘measurable safety’ of autonomous vehicles, enabled by a transition from ‘quantity of miles’ to ‘quality of coverage’.

Foretellix was founded by a team of pioneers in measurable verification and validation, with a highly automated and proven coverage driven methodology broadly adopted in the semiconductor industry. They have adapted and tailored their approach for the safety verification and validation of autonomous vehicles.

Foretellix’s Foretify™ Technology includes an open, high-level Measurable Scenario Description Language (M-SDL), intelligent and scalable automation, analytics and metrics. This includes the functional coverage metrics required to make a compelling ‘safety case’ to consumers, developers, insurance companies and regulators. To learn more, visit www.foretellix.com/.

About VMC

VMC is working on vehicle dynamics simulation software to simulate driving in a virtual environment and its application technology. Leading customers, the developer and partner companies, VMC plays a pivotal role in innovation, allowing customers to expedite their research and development. To learn more, visit: http://vmc.jp/foretellix/

© Copyright 2020 Foretellix

Media Contacts:

Foretellix:

Israel
Moshe Mendelson
+972 508993284
moshe@gopositive.co.il

North America
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+1 734 272 7440
scott@fosgardpr.com

Europe
Mike Stainton
+44 7739 891040
mike.stainton@pfpr.com

VMC:

Takuya Tamaki (New Business Development Dept. General Manager)
+81 52 265 6035
tamaki@vmc.jp