Arrival’s Denis Sverdlov on the new era of car manufacturing – TechCrunch

Arrival’s Denis Sverdlov on the new era of car manufacturing 'If your business doesn’t have a technology element, then it doesn’t have a future'Electric vehicle company Arrival wants to break the current auto manufacturing model. The London-based company, founded in 2015, joined the ranks of EV companies going public via SPAC, merging with blank-check company CIIG Merger Corp. in March. Arrival founder Denis Sverdlov has been at the intersection of technological advancement and societal change before. Born in the nation of Georgia, Sverdlov founded his first company at 22 selling IT consulting software to enterprise customers. Oh, and he founded electric autonomous car race Roborace in 2015, too, just ‘cause.