These startups create autonomous cars or develop vehicle autopilot software.
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Cruise Automation
Country: USA | Funding: $15.1B
Cruise Automation is a self-driving car company that develops an autopilot system for existing cars. Acquired by General Motors
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Waymo
Country: USA | Funding: $5.5B
Waymo is Google's self-driving technology startup with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.
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Aurora
Country: USA | Funding: $3.7B
Aurora works at the intersection of rigorous engineering and applied machine learning to address one of the most challenging, important and interesting opportunities of our generation: transforming the way people and goods move.
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Argo AI
Country: USA | Funding: $3.6B
Argo AI is a self-driving technology platform company.
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Nuro
Country: USA | Funding: $2.1B
NURO is a technology company that aims to accelerate the benefits of robotics for everyday life.
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Pony.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $1.3B
Pony.ai is a developer of AI-based robot designed for autonomous driving.
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Wayve
Country: UK | Funding: $1.3B
Wayve uses end-to-end deep learning to develop artificial intelligence capable of complex driving.
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Momenta
Country: China | Funding: $1.2B
Momenta is a developer of autonomous driving technology designed to improve efficiency.
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Didi Woya
Country: China | Funding: $1.2B
Didi Woya develop technologies for self-driving vehicles.
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Zoox
Country: USA | Funding: $1B
Zoox is a robotics company pioneering autonomous mobility as-a-service. Zoox is developing a breakthrough, fully automated, electric vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring the service to market at scale.
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Einride
Country: Sweden | Funding: $652.3M
Einride is a cargo and freight company that designs and builds autonomous trucks and technologies for transportation systems.
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TuSimple
Country: USA | Funding: $648.1M
TuSimple is a self-driving truck company capable of driving from depot-to-depot without human intervention needed.
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Applied Intuition
Country: USA | Funding: $601.5M
Applied Intuition provides software infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles
at scale.
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AEYE
Country: USA | Funding: $345M
Provider of AI-enabled LiDAR sensor solutions for automobiles. It offers hardware products that are solid-state lidars with ADAS functionality. It can be used for various sectors like defense, autonomous vehicles, etc.
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Kodiak Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $319.9M
We are developing autonomous technology for long-haul trucking and helps US Army automate future ground vehicles to conduct high-risk missions like reconnaissance and surveillance.
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Embark Trucks
Country: USA | Funding: $317.1M
Embark is building self-driving truck technology that specializes in freight and logistic services.
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Oxbotica
Country: UK | Funding: $229.5M
Oxbotica is developing the next generation of autonomous vehicles, creating the software that makes them go.
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Robotic Research
Country: USA | Funding: $228M
Robotic Research develops autonomy and robotic technology to improve the safety, security, and effectiveness of transportation.
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Recogni
Country: USA | Funding: $176.1M
Developer of a visual perception platform designed for autonomous driving.
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NAUTO
Country: USA | Funding: $173.9M
Nauto is an intelligent camera that protects commercial fleets and keeps drivers safe by preventing collisions before they occur.
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Helm.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $155M
Helm.ai is a scalable artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicle.
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Uisee
Country: China | Funding: $154M
UISEE provides leading-edge products on autonomous driving and transformative services on mobility on demand.
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Foretellix
Country: Israel | Funding: $132.5M
Foretellix is enabling the digital transformation of safety-critical automotive verification for large-scale deployment.
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Preferred Networks
Country: Japan | Funding: ¥16.5B
Preferred Networks develops technologies related to autonomous driving and connected cars. They also apply machine learning and deep learning to robotics and machine tools, and conduct research and development of object recognition, control, anomaly detection, and optimization technology, medical images such as CT and MRI, and develop systems to allow early diagnosis of cancer using blood samples.
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42dot
Country: South Korea | Funding: ₩1.2T
42dot is a technology company pioneering frictionless and autonomous mobility services through the development of UMOS.
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Gatik
Country: USA | Funding: $122.9M
Gatik AI is the autonomous vehicle startup that’s aiming for the sweet middle spot in the world of logistics
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NAVYA
Country: France | Funding: $110.3M
NAVYA develops driverless vehicles for the specific site transportation of goods and people.
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Cortica
Country: Israel | Funding: $109.4M
Cortica has developed autonomous AI that simulates the natural processes of the mammal cortex. Its is used for autonomous vehicles, smart city applications, security cameras, drones, media, robotics, and medical image analysis.
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Easymile
Country: France | Funding: €77.1M
EasyMile brings driverless vehicle solutions for people and goods to life with leading technology to provide a real service
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FiveAI
Country: UK | Funding: $78.7M
FiveAI provides software for safe and cost effective urban mobility in public transport and solution to complex urban environments.
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Drive.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $77M
Drive.ai creates AI software for autonomous vehicles.
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Apex.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $72M
Apex.ai develops an operating system for autonomous vehicles.
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OTTO Motors
Country: Canada | Funding: $70.1M
OTTO Motors provides self-driving vehicles for safe and efficient material transport inside factories and warehouses.
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Faction
Country: USA | Funding: $62M
Faction creates driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car.
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Serve Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $53M
Serve is the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery. Our robots serve people in public spaces, starting with food delivery.
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Voyage
Country: USA | Funding: $51.2M
Voyage is working to bring about the end-goal of self-driving cars: a world where anyone, anywhere can summon a car directly to their doorstep, travel safely to their destination, all for an extremely low price.
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Autonomous a2z
Country: South Korea | Funding: ₩52.1B
Autonomous a2z provides a new paradigm of an autonomous driving service that connects human and city by our own technology-based mobility innovation. From transportation to interchangeable system, innovative technologies that will be realized over the city, we will realize the value of autonomous driving mobility platform in Smart city.
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Venti Technologies
Country: China | Funding: $36.8M
Venti Technologies is an autonomous vehicles developer company that develops autonomous logistics systems for moving goods and people.
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Neurala
Country: USA | Funding: $32.1M
Make your products and services more intelligent with The Neurala Brain, a deep learning neural network software that mimics how the human brain works. Neurala is looking to put AI in the hands of toy makers, drone enthusiasts and IoT engineers alike.
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Mighty AI
Country: USA | Funding: $27.3M
Mighty AI delivers the training data to build computer vision models for autonomous vehicles.
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Starsky Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $20.3M
Starsky Robotics is a San Francisco-based autonomous trucking company.
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Motional
Country: USA
Motional is making driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality.
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Cognitive Technologies
Country: Russia
Cognitive Technologies is a pioneer of AI-based driver assistance systems. The company developed C-Pilot, an intelligent autonomous driving system that can be installed in cars and other vehicles.
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Bonsai Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $10.5M
Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines.
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RideVision
Country: Israel | Funding: $9.5M
Ride Vision is building an AI-driven safety system to prevent motorcycle collisions
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Provizio
Country: Ireland | Funding: $6.2M
Provizio develops an accident prevention platform using sensors and AI
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Bluespace.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $3.5M
Bluespace.ai develops software systems for autonomous mass transit fleets. Bluespace.ai’s aim is to safely enable full-size vehicles that can travel on public roads at road speed, therefore serving more passengers at a time.
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BaseTracK
Country: Estonia | Funding: $3.1M
BaseTracK is an all-weather autonomous driving technology provider and was the first company to demonstrate driver-out autonomous driving in snow conditions on an icy racetrack
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Deepen AI
Country: USA | Funding: $2M
Deepen AI is an autonomous development tooling company. Its product solution utilizes advanced deep learning and computer vision AI algorithms to accelerate and simplify high quality labeling of camera, LiDAR, and radar data. Deepen AI's typical customers are Autonomous AI vendors, OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, sensor providers, and HD mapping companies.
