Buga Group LLC

Buga Group Overview

Buga Group LLC is a California limited liability company headquartered in San Diego, CA USA.

It is a holding and operational company owned by Dr. Walter J. Buga.
In the past, Buga Group was focused mainly on building startup companies, with Walter Buga operational role in these companies.
The new plan for Buga Group includes consulting services, in addition to building startup companies.
The focus is on companies having innovative products, sales and planning a global business expansion.
Consulting services include strategic planning, business development, fundraising, and team building.
Buga Group focus is on Telecom, Automotive, Industrial IoT, Robotics, Drones and Artificial Intelligence, as these are areas in which Dr. Buga has extensive experience and contacts.
Typically, Dr. Walter Buga may take Non-Executive Board Member seat or Board Adviser role.

Headquarters

San Diego, California

Business Development:

USA, EU

Engineering

Arendai Inc.

Buga Group Focus

Building Arendai company

Established in 2018, with roots back to 2012 as Arynga/Intel CarSync team (same office and same leadership team as Arynga)
Very experienced and well-respected software engineering team
Services company with expertise ranging from Embedded systems to Cloud solutions

Digital Transformation Advisory Services

Telecom (5G), automotive (autonomous and connected vehicles and C-V2X), industrial IoT (Industry 4.0), robotics, drones (and counter drones)
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, and Machine Learning

Special attention is given to European based companies and Polish in particular.

The companies built by Walter were US-based companies having its 100% owned R&D team and offices in Poland.
As an example, Arynga was Delaware Inc, with offices in San Diego, California, and Arynga Poland sp. z.o.o was based in Lodz, Poland.

Advisory Engagements

Publicly announced are:

Husarion

Products include robotic solutions, based on ROS2.0. Husarnet, which is peer to peer communication over any physical networks.
Husarnet is a global LAN solution, applicable to V2X and Industry 4.0.
Devices with Husarnet client installed see each other like they were in the same LAN network, with low latency, high security and privacy.

Husarion is based in Krakow, Poland

IVEX

IVEX is a software company developing technology to guarantee and validate safety-critical decisions taken by autonomous vehicles.
IVEX Safety Co-Pilot is applicable to autonomous driving vehicles, drones, tractors, mowers, AGVs, and more
IVEX Tumato Tool is an embeddable runtime behavior algorithm with the perception information from the sensors as input and the actions for the controllers as output.

IVEX is based in Heverlee, Belgium

Active in the pipeline:

Anti-drone solutions (sensors), predictive analytics (AI), cybersecurity, mobility, C-V2X

Buga Group Past Projects/Exits

Arynga Inc. (based in San Diego), and Arynga Poland sp. z.o,o. (based in Lodz, Poland).

Walter incorporated Arynga in April 2012 and sold it to Intel Corporation on April 4, 2016.
Walter was founder and CEO of Arynga, and the Chairman of Arynga Poland.
Arynga product CarSync was a framework for intelligent life cycle management of all in-vehicle Electronic Control Units, including secure OTA updates.
CarSync technology has been supplied to major automakers.

Proximetry Inc. (based in San Diego), incorporated in 2005 and acquired in 2016.

Walter was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer.
Proximetry product, AirSync™, enables the management of the "most critical things" in the Internet of Things (IoT).
Proximetry product, GateSync™, was the implementation of connected aircraft project, named GateSync, for Thales Avionics, and acquired by Thales Avionics.
Proximetry was acquired by Relayr, the global Enterprise Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform provider (relayr.io). Later Relayr was acquired by Munich RE for $300M.

Contact BUGA GROUP

Contact Info

walter@bugagroup.com