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Recent investments

Series B
$200M

The Series B round was led by Eclipse Ventures with participation from a broad group of global financial and strategic backers.

"We were the first team to develop the scientific breakthroughs in deep learning to build autonomous driving technology that can easily scale to new markets using a data-learned approach. Today, we have all of the pieces in place to take what we have pioneered and drive AV2.0 forward. We have brought together world-class strategic partners in transportation, grocery delivery and compute, along with the best capital resources to scale our core autonomy platform, trial products with our commercial fleet partners, and build the infrastructure to scale AV2.0 globally."
— Alex Kendall, CEO
Series B
£800K

The funding coincides with a worldwide partnership to launch the new buildable Kano PC.

"The Education sector is undergoing massive change enabled by technology, and our collaboration with Kano is truly advancing the vision of “technology for all,”"
— Jordan Chrysafidis, General Manager, Worldwide Education Device Sales