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We immediately set up a South Korea office in Seoul to act as a bridge between the European and Asian markets and start to make our first contacts with young start-up companies. Our CEO becomes a mentor for Startupbootcamp Smart Transportation & Energy, giving rise to cooperation with various universities, particularly EBS University of Business and Law; e&Co. becomes a partner for the institution's EBS Symposium. skill-fisher, a boutique headhunting firm specialising in digital talent, is set-up. e&Co. AG takes a stake in Tallinn-based start-up Autobahn, a digital dealership and order management platform which offers manufacturers a direct connection to customers - both online and offline. While breaking the 10-million-Euro turnover barrier, e&Co. AG. invests in start-up Butleroy, a digital assistant powered by artificial intelligence, and attends the South by Southwest Festival (SXSW). We also set-up our innovation platform motec ventures with Automotive legend Henrik Fisker on the Board of Advisors. Another e&Co. investment is start-up FDTech, which specialises in algorithms for autonomous driving. We open our Berlin office and welcome Uwe Baunach, a passionate automotive veteran with over 30 years of management experience at Volkswagen, as the new chair of our Supervisory Board. Our book, The In.Car.Nation Code, is published and we take a stake in Israeli radar start-up RFISee while setting up CarFellows, an online platform for new car sales. On our fifth anniversary, co-founders and are called to the Management Board as executives for our investment and consultancy operations. We enter into an IIOT partnership with the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences as we diversify our consultancy business by signing a broad range of new clients outside the automotive industry. We're working on it to make it great ...