69 Best Autonomous Vehicle Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Autonomous Vehicle Startups

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There are 126 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $22.3b. The average funding per company in this subset is $323.2m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$3.9m

Money raised

Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.

9

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$995.5m

Money raised

Luminar Technologies is an Orlando, Florida-based automotive industry company.

9

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$3.9m

Money raised

Toyon Research Corporation is a Goleta, California-based company that researches and develops radio frequency and antenna systems that was founded in 1980.

8

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$3.0b

Money raised

Postmates is a food delivery service company operating a network of couriers for local goods delivery.

2

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$20.3m

Money raised

Driverless truck company based in San Francisco, California.

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3

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$70.0m

Money raised

Helm.ai is a start-up developing software for advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous driving, and robotics.

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$30.0m

Money raised

Drivezy, formerly JustRide, is a marketplace for self-drive cars and two-wheeler rentals, headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

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$23.0m

Money raised

Serve Robotics is a developer of autonomous robotic vehicles intended for use in delivery, especially food delivery, in urban settings.

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10

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$588.1m

Money raised

Shield AI is a company building artificially intelligent systems like drones for use by military service members and first responders.

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$1.2b

Money raised

A company developing artificial intelligence-based technology designed for autonomous vehicles. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Fremont, California.

3

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$108.0m

Money raised

WayRay is a Moscow-based developer of holographic augmented reality technologies for the automotive industry.

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2

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$46.0m

Money raised

A technology company building products for enabling the autonomous operation of self-driving vehicles.

5

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$232.0m

Money raised

An electronic manufacturing company with a focus on high-resolution LIDAR sensors. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Francisco, California.

11

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$511.8m

Money raised

A company designing and building autonomous electric transportation (AET) systems for freight and cargo.

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3

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$92.0m

Money raised

An artificial intelligence company that has developed technology for mapping services specifically focused designed for autonomous vehicles. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

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14

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$1.3b

Money raised

Momenta is a Beijing-based startup that designs software for autonomous vehicles.

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7

Funding Rounds

$2.2b

Money raised

Nuro is a company that develops self-driving vehicles designed for local goods transportation.

10

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$106.3m

Money raised

Mocana is a San Francisco-based developer of cybersecurity software solutions to protect Internet of Things devices and industrial infrastructure.

$1.6m

Money raised

A company providing an ultrasonic sensor solution for three-dimensional positioning in vehicles in order to drive autonomously in close proximity and low-speed environments.

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$1.6b

Money raised

WeRide, formerly known as JingChi, is a Guangzhou, China-based smart mobility company developing L4 autonomous driving solutions.

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2

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$23.3m

Money raised

A technology company developing technologies for self driving vehicles.

6

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$81.6m

Money raised

Liquid Robotics is a subsidiary of The Boeing Company engaged in the development of an unmanned wave and solar-powered ocean robot.

5

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$3.4m

Money raised

Asylon provides solutions for the autonomous UAV industry.

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$827.1m

Money raised

Operator of an on-demand transit company designed to provide car pooling services. The company's platform dynamically matches passengers with available seats, instead of entire vehicles, creating a virtual bus service, while keeping trip durations similar to a private taxi, enabling passengers to be picked up and dropped off in a continuous stream, without taking riders out of their way to accommodate other passengers.

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$1.4m

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OpenOcean Robotics is an early-stage company developing solar powered autonomous boats that provide real-time information to protect the ocean.

2

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$12.4m

Money raised

Provizio is a technology company that provides an AI-based, five-dimensional image sensing solution for road accident prevention.

2

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$58.0m

Money raised

Daedalean is building autonomous piloting software systems for civil aircraft of today and advanced aerial mobility of tomorrow.

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2

Funding Rounds

$38.5m

Money raised

Zendrive is a smartphone-based data analytics and transportation safety platform.

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2

Funding Rounds

$84.0m

Money raised

Swift Navigation provides precise positioning solutions for automotive, autonomous vehicle, mobile and mass market applications.

5

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$109.0m

Money raised

Upstream Security is an artificial intelligence company founded by Yoav Levy that develops automotive cloud security software.

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5

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$188.5m

Money raised

A company developing autonomous vehicles for central business districts, enterprise campuses and residential communities

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6

Funding Rounds

$117.1m

Money raised

Embark is a San Francisco-based self-driving trucks manufacturing company.

6

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$38.3m

Money raised

Algolux is a company founded by Allan Benchetrit and Felix Heide.

9

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$344.0m

Money raised

LeddarTech is focused on the development of environmental sensing solutions for the automotive industry.

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7

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$345.4m

Money raised

Nauto is a Palo Alto, California-based company that develops fleet safety management hardware founded by Stefan Heck.

4

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$96.0m

Money raised

TriEye is a sensor and machine vision company founded by Avi Bakal.

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2

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$3.6b

Money raised

Argo AI is a Pittsburgh-based artificial intelligence and self-driving technology platform company.

7

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$50.7m

Money raised

Matternet makes access to goods as frictionless and universal as access to information.

5

Funding Rounds

$188.5m

Money raised

Saildrone designs, manufactures and operates a global fleet of wind and solar powered ocean drones, providing in-situ data collection services, global ocean data sets and enhanced weather forecast applications.

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4

Funding Rounds

$58.0m

Money raised

Xwing is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2016 by Marc Piette.

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$155.0m

Money raised

Pudu Robotics is a Chinese robotics company offering robot-enabled delivery services.

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$12.1m

Money raised

Lunar Outpost is a Colorado based aerospace technology company, currently focused on developing space resource technologies.

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$79.1m

Money raised

Clearpath is a company that builds robot development platforms and develops autonomous robots.

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3

Funding Rounds

$10.3m

Money raised

Regulus Cyber is a company that has the vision of delivering cybersecurity for GNSS

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5

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$144.0m

Money raised

Developer of autonomous vehicle software designed to revolutionize city logistics and power the next generation of self-driving commercial fleets.

2

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$12.0m

Money raised

A company developing antenna and sensor technology for automotive (ADAS/AV), wireless communications, robotics and drones.

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2

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$13.0m

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V7 is developing a platform for organizing data, labelling, training, deployment, and monitoring AI in production.

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$2.2b

Money raised

A company developing self-driving technology.

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$1.5m

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Tayln produces battery electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft systems

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3

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$34.0m

Money raised

Edge Case Research is a Pittsburgh-based company that provides tools to enhance autonomous vehicles.

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Peloton Technology is a Mountain View, California-based developer of connected and automated vehicle technology company working to improve efficiency and safety in the trucking industry.

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$7.9m

Money raised

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. designs and manufactures unmanned vehicle systems, software, and components for a variety of industrial, agricultural, automotive proving ground, and military customers.

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4

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$154.0m

Money raised

Innovusion, based in Sunnyvale, California is a technology developing company.

2

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$55.5m

Money raised

Phantom Auto is a San Francisco, California-based company developing software to enable the remote operation of vehicles including forklifts, robots, cars, and trucks.

1

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$52.0m

Money raised

Ike is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018.

3

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$45.0m

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Lumotive focuses on solid-state, 3D-sensing systems, researching and developing solutions for various industries.

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2

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$17.7m

Money raised

iSee, a Massachusetts-based company, is an artificial intelligence technology company.

5

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$34.8m

Money raised

Cybrary is a College Park, Maryland-based career development platform in cybersecurity and information technology applications.

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3

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$36.0m

Money raised

Tactile Mobility provides smart and autonomous vehicles (AVs) with tactility-sensing innovation that empowers multiple data solutions.

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5

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$100.0m

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Autotalks is a company founded in 2008 by Hagai Zyss.

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$15.5m

Money raised

Zero Aero is an aviation and aerospace component manufacturing company based in Tacoma, Washington.

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$46.5m

Money raised

Karamba Security is an automotive Security & IoT Protection founded in 2016 by Ami Dotan.

4

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$144.0m

Money raised

Canvas Construction is a San Francisco-based company founded by Henrik Bennetsen, Maria Telleria and Gabe Hein.

2

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$20.7m

Money raised

FiveAI is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2015 by John Redford.

2

Funding Rounds

$165.0m

Money raised

Developer of an autonomous technology designed to redefine the long-haul trucking industry. The company's technology operates as a true freight carrier to improve safety and efficiency while reducing congestion and emissions, enabling trucking companies to apply better safety measures for their drivers and products.

2

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$19.0m

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Platform capturing real-time insights of warehouse operations using fully autonomous robots and Artificial Intelligence.

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4

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$155.6m

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EasyMile is a Toulouse-based artificial intelligence company providing software for autonomous vehicles and related mobility solutions.

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$120.0m

Money raised

Inceptio Technology is a Shanghai-based company.

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