Rethinking automotive from the foundation up.

For decades, the industry improved vehicles by adding more electronic controllers, more software stacks, and more network complexity. DrakoTech builds the Unified Car: the software-defined car of the future, engineered as one mixed-criticality machine.

WHY DRAKO TECH

The problem isn't ambition. It's architecture

The automotive industry has spent years pursuing the software-defined vehicle. However, software is still being built on architectures designed for a hardware defined-era.

More software, more compute, and more features have been added without fundamentall changing the foundation underneath them. The result is greater complexity, higher cost and slower development.

Drako Tech evolved with a different question:

What if we redesigned the foundation instead?

That question led to a new approach to vehicle architecture. One designed from the beginning for software velocity, centralized intelligence, real-time control, and continuos evolution.

the unified drako architecture

The DrakoTech team

DrakoTech brings together leaders across software, real-time systems, silicon, vehicles, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure and go-to-market, combining disciplines that have traditionally been separated across the automotive ecosystem.
Together, we are focused on one solution: building the architecture that enables the car of the future.

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SOFTWARE
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REAL-TIME SYSTEMS
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SILICON
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VEHICLES
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CYBERSECURITY
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GTM
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Dean Drako

Dean Drako

CHAIRMAN

Strong track record building & scaling software-driven technology companies. BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan and UC Berkeley, respectively.

Shiv Sikand

Shiv Sikand

CEO

Expert in chip design, software development, & vehicle architecture.  BS and MS degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering, University of Manchester, Postgraduate research, Computer Science.

Richard West

Prof. Richard West, PhD

Chief Software Architect

Global authority in real-time systems & mixed-criticality design and professor at Boston University. MEng, Microelectronics & Software Engineering University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, MS & PhD, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dean Drako

Dean Drako

President

Strong track record scaling enterprise technology companies. Deep experience in global enterprise sales, commercial strategy, and bringing complex software platforms to market.

WHAT COMES NEXT

The car of the future needs
‍an architecture built for the future