Samsara filed a lawsuit in federal court against rival Motive Technologies on Wednesday. Samsara is worth his nearly $12 billion and went public in late 2021. (Photo courtesy of NYSE)
Fleet telematics provider Samsara Inc. on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court against rival Motive Technologies, alleging that Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) copied and used proprietary technology and engaged in false and misleading advertising, alleging that Samsara He claimed to have created a fictitious account to access the company's connected car platform.
In a 94-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, Samsara alleges that Motiv, an in-vehicle camera and GPS provider, has changed many of its product lines and business strategies by “routinely stealing Samsara's technology and ,” the company said in a statement.
Samsara alleges that Motiv employees secretly viewed Samsara's dashboard over a four-year period from 2018 to 2022. The company describes the dashboard as “the center for all data collection and reporting across all Samsara products (Fleet Telematics (VG Series), Fleet Safety Cameras)”. (CM Series), and Asset Tracking” on his website.
Motive did not immediately respond to Freightwaves' request for comment.
Samsara (NYSE: IOT), a connected operations cloud developer, was founded in 2015 by CEO Sanjit Biswas and CTO John Bicket. The two met as graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. .
Samsara said in a statement that it was forced to file suit against the company after asking San Francisco-based Motive's management and board to “cease illegal conduct” for more than a year. There is.
Samsara raised $805 million in an initial public offering in November 2021, priced at $23 per share, at the high end of its offer range. The company is valued at about $12 billion.
Based in San Francisco, Samsara has more than 1,600 employees worldwide and serves more than 20,000 customers in the energy, food and beverage, construction, manufacturing, and transportation industries.
Samsara's data platform applications provide video-based safety, vehicle telematics, and app and driver workflows.
In the founder's memo regarding the lawsuit, Biswas and Bicket wrote that while researching third-party benchmarking reports, they found that Motive's claims that it would copy Samsara “from our patented technology to our mission statement.” It claims to have discovered a comprehensive campaign spanning many years. In 2022 he was paid by Motive for its products.
“Specifically, Motiv's senior management team, including CEO Shoaib Makhani, gained access to our systems and accessed our platform by creating Samsara customer accounts under fictitious names. I did everything from calling the support line for information on the issue.”
The complaint includes screenshots of video footage of the Samsara device in which Makani and Motive Chief Product Officer Jairam Ranganathan claim to be “researching Samsara's products.”
Motive is embroiled in another legal battle with Omnitracs, another safety and vehicle technology provider that filed a lawsuit against the telematics provider in October. The lawsuit focuses on his 11 patents for Motive that were allegedly copied from Omnitracs.
