Top 10 Startups developing AI for Self-driving Cars in USA

Updated: March 21, 2024

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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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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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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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Funding: $3.6B
Argo AI is a self-driving technology platform company.
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Funding: $2.1B
NURO is a technology company that aims to accelerate the benefits of robotics for everyday life.
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Funding: $1.3B
Pony.ai is a developer of AI-based robot designed for autonomous driving.
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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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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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Funding: $601.5M
Applied Intuition provides software infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles
 at scale.
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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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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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Funding: $317.1M
Embark is building self-driving truck technology that specializes in freight and logistic services.
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Funding: $228M
Robotic Research develops autonomy and robotic technology to improve the safety, security, and effectiveness of transportation.
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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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Funding: $155M
Helm.ai is a scalable artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicle.
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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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Funding: $77M
Drive.ai creates AI software for autonomous vehicles.
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Funding: $73.9M
Developer of a visual perception platform designed for autonomous driving.
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Funding: $72M
Apex.ai develops an operating system for autonomous vehicles.
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Funding: $62M
Faction creates driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car.
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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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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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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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Funding: $27.3M
Mighty AI delivers the training data to build computer vision models for autonomous vehicles.
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Funding: $20.3M
Starsky Robotics is a San Francisco-based autonomous trucking company.
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Motional is making driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality.
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Funding: $10.5M
Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines.
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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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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.