Our vision is to eliminate dishonesty and waste in the car repair industry

Story of DriveX

The story of how the DriveX team managed to build a viable business, gain the trust of multiple industry giants and change the world of vehicle inspection.

2019 February

Porsche Open Innovation Hackathon – TOP 10 out of 700. Back then, DriveX team was known as Porsche Wizards.

After reaching the semi-finals, we rebranded to DriveX.
2020 January

Just one month after registering the company, we took part in sTARTUp Day and achieved TOP 7 out of 312.

We focused on the insurance market and building with clients, concentrating our efforts entirely on vehicle CASCO pre-check inspections.
2020 December

We closed our first €200k investment round. Continued focusing on the insurance market and it paid off.

We soon dominated the Baltic states as the leading remote CASCO pre-inspection provider.
2021 December

By then, we had grown our client base significantly and, among others, partnered with insurers like ERGO, Gjensidige and two Vienna Insurance Group companies.
2022 April

Closed a €1M investment led by DEPO Ventures. Other participants included Plug and Play Ventures, Fund Fellow Founders and Startup Wise Guys.
2022 December

This year, we broadened our horizons. In addition to insurance companies, we started offering our solution to car rental and car sales companies.
2023 March

The Estonian Transport Administration adopted our solution to create a fully digital vehicle registration service – the first of its kind in the world.
2024 January

We began offering our solution to glass repair companies and partnered with Belron’s franchise in Estonia, Carglass®.

Continued refining our windshield damage detection technology (patent pending!). Also expanded to Africa.
2025 February

Raised €1.2M to accelerate our windshield damage detection technology and expand its AI capabilities.

The investment included participation from business angels from Carglass® franchises in Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia, existing investors and a development grant from the EIS Applied Research Program.
2025 so far

Signed Carglass® Latvia and Lithuania and launched multiple pilots with Belron companies across Europe. Also expanded to Mexico.

Our core values

Innovate what matters

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. ” – Henry Ford
Idea meritocracy

It doesn’t matter who said it – if the idea is excellent, we’ll execute it as a team. The author’s role or title is irrelevant.
It's all about execution

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. We provide top-quality service, flexibility in integration and strong work ethics every step of the way.
Ownership

We take ownership of our company, services and daily tasks. We embrace our mistakes and celebrate our wins equally.
Clear communication

We keep our promises and communicate our expectations to others as clearly as possible.
Resource efficiency

We critically evaluate how work gets done. Time and materials are valuable resources – for us and our clients. Let’s not waste them!

Let's introduce ourselves

Rauno Sigur CEO

Rauno Sigur
CEO

Rauno is an experienced business executive with a track record of more than 10 years. Beforehand he worked in Cleveron, a world-leading last mile technology company and sold technology to multi-billion dollar corporations. Rauno makes sure that DriveX’s vision and strategy is executed with the best team, product and investors. Importantly, he takes care of the DriveX organization and its culture – innovating what matters.
Kentti Koppel CTO

Kentti Koppel
CTO

Kentti leads DriveX’s today’s and tomorrow’s tech solutions. For the past 6 years he has been working as a software engineer and architect, previously employed by Net Group, a leading software developing company in Estonia. Besides building the best technical stack for a global insurtech, Kentti is well known for his high-grade reasoning skills that are instrumental in all business domains.
Valter Läll CPO

Valter Läll
CPO

Valter is in charge of product development and bringing value to customers. He has more than 8 years of experience in enterprise system and software analysis. Before founding DriveX, he worked in Net Group, a leading software developing company in Estonia.
Allan Triik VP of Design

Allan Triik
VP of Design

Allan has designed user experiences and interfaces for more than 10 years for leading technology companies like Cleveron and Fractory. He makes sure that DriveX is the most easy-to-use vehicle verification solution in the world.
Frederika Frey Marketing Lead
Karl-Joan Alesma Machine Learning Engineer
Jüri Aganitš Full Stack Developer
Joseph Soomer Customer Success Manager
Shehab Hesham Senior DataOps Engineer