rLoop was founded in 2015 after SpaceX announced plans to hold a hyperloop competition.
Co-founder Brent Lessard and other members of a SpaceX Reddit group were able to bring together a distributed team of 140 engineers and designers and eventually became the only non-university team to win a SpaceX Innovation award. Over the following four years, rLoop has continued to develop some of the most advanced Hyperloop technology as a decentralized team, and in late 2019, it also acquired certain technical intellectual property from Arrivo, a fellow hyperloop startup, to accelerate its growth.
To help support its decentralized, crowdsourced engineering business model, rloop chose to partner with XD Innovation and adopt the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform on the Cloud. “At rLoop we’re bringing together passionate people from all over the globe to create a community focused on innovating in the built environment. It’s important to have meaningful partnerships and an effective platform to execute this vision. This is why we’re very excited to call XDI our partner,” explains Brent Lessard, Founder & CEO, rLoop.
“The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform on the Cloud, along with XDI’s deep experience working with leading transportation tech start-ups, will help support rLoop’s proven business model for decentralized development and execution of innovative technology from concept to delivery. We are very excited to partner up with the rLoop team, a very innovative organization, with unparalleled passion, clear vision and demonstrated success,” adds Soufiane Elaamili, CEO, XD Innovation.
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