PRESS RELEASE
Apex.AI Secures Strategic Investment from LG Electronics to Advance Software-Defined Vehicle Technology
The investment underscores Apex.AI’s growing global footprint and strengthens collaborations in South Korea
PALO ALTO, CA — February 20, 2025 — Apex.AI, a leader in safety-certified software for mobility and software-defined vehicles (SDVs), today announced that LG Electronics (LGE), a global innovator in technology and consumer electronics, including vehicle solutions, has made a strategic investment in the company. This investment is part of an extension to Apex.AI’s Series B funding round and marks the company’s first strategic investor from South Korea.
By pairing Apex.OS’s AI-first runtime with QNX’s next-generation real-time operating system, customers will be able to move faster from prototype to safety-ready deployment. Joint demonstrations are underway to show how the two platforms integrate to support real-world autonomy and robotics workloads.
Why It Matters
Modern autonomy stacks must reconcile two demands that have traditionally been difficult to combine: high-performance AI processing and predictable, safety-certifiable real-time execution.
The Apex.AI and QNX integration delivers:
- Deterministic real-time execution for AI workloads
- AI-native development tools and ROS-style ergonomics
- Reduced integration and safety certification risk through validated compatibility
- Applicability across industries requiring safety-critical AI
“Bringing Apex.OS together with QNX’s proven and trusted real-time operating system provides a practical and certifiable foundation for production-grade autonomy,” said Jan Becker, CEO and Founder, Apex.AI. “With validated compatibility on QNX SDP 8.0, teams can now move from AI prototypes to deterministic, safety-ready systems with far less integration risk.”
“QNX delivers deterministic, safety-certifiable platforms for mission-critical systems,” said Romain Saha, Senior Director, Strategic Alliances at QNX. “Working with Apex.AI extends that foundation, giving customers a clear path to build and certify real-world autonomous and robotic systems.”
How the Platforms Work Together
Running Apex.OS on QNX OS 8.0 with validated integration patterns for deterministic data paths, safe monitoring, and controlled shared-memory exchanges, will help engineering teams meet strict timing budgets and assemble stronger safety arguments during safety certification.
Real-World Impact
Apex.AI and QNX-compatible architectures are already being adopted by autonomous mobility development, perception-to-control pilots, medical device projects, and automotive domain controller initiatives. A live urban mobility demonstration based on a real-world customer deployment will be showcased at Apex.AI’s booth at CES 2026, highlighting how the platform performs in complex, real-world scenarios. Request a demo at the booth, LVCC, West Hall, Booth 3231.
About Apex.AI
Apex.AI, founded in 2017, is an international company headquartered in Silicon Valley that develops secure, certified, developer-friendly, and scalable software for software-defined vehicles and mobility systems. The company's flagship product, Apex.Grace, is an automotive-grade, real-time, reliable software development kit. Apex.AI provides automakers, truck manufacturers and suppliers, as well as defense, agriculture, and medical sectors, with a software development kit that helps customers transition from hardware-centric products to modern software-defined systems, enabling faster software development at a lower cost and with less effort.
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