Report: Self-driving car startup Aurora is raising capital at a $2B valuation
Early last year, LinkedIn co-founder and prolific venture capital investor Reid Hoffman called Chris Urmson “the Henry Ford of...
Read MoreGoldman Sachs invests in Deep Map to provide a reliable solution for autonomous vehicles
In order to provide safe and best solution for autonomous vehicles, Goldman Sachs invested in Deep Map, Inc. The company joins Generation...
Read MoreBaraja raises $32 million for autonomous vehicle lidar with prism-like optics
Lidar startup Baraja has raised $32 million in a series A round of funding led by Sequoia China and Main Sequence Ventures’ CSIRO...
Read MoreU.S. Department of Transportation announces Notice of Funding Opportunity for automated driving system demonstration grants
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) today announced up to $60 million in federal grant funding for projects that test the safe...
Read MoreBlackBerry profit beats as bets on autonomous technology pay off
Canada’s BlackBerry Ltd reported a quarterly profit that beat analysts’ estimates on Thursday, as the company’s focus on...
Read MoreAudi vs. Tesla? German automaker pouring billions into electric
Volkswagen (VLKAY) might have lost a number of customers after its emissions-cheating scandal in 2015. But the automaker isn’t...
Read MoreRTC, City of Las Vegas land $5M grant for autonomous vehicle project
The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) and the City of Las Vegas received a $5.3 million grant from the Federal...
Read MoreDENSO invests nearly $100 million in startups to advance mobility
DENSO, the world’s second largest mobility supplier, has invested nearly $100 million over a four-year period in startup companies around...
Read MoreAudi to spend nearly $16 billion on self-driving car tech, electrification through 2023
Audi, the German luxury automaker under VW Group, said Tuesday it will invest €14 billion ($15.95 billion) over the next five years on...
Read MoreDenso acquires stake in Infineon
According to Infineon, the two companies have been working together for a long time and now want to strengthen their cooperation....
Read MoreWest Midlands driverless cars project wins £19m boost
More roads in the West Midlands will be used to test driverless cars as part of a £19m grant. The money has come from the...
Read MoreAEye raises $40M to build autonomous car sensor that sees better than humans
AEye is a computer vision start-up that believes everyone else is doing solid-state LiDar wrong. Current LiDar systems are mechanical,...
Read MoreVolkswagen to spend €44 bln by 2023 to develop electric, self-driving vehicles
The Volkswagen Group said that it will spend almost 44 billion euros on e-mobility, autonomous driving, new mobility services and...
Read MoreAdaSky raises $20 million to build far-infrared sensor for autonomous cars
In October 2017, two-year-old Israeli startup AdaSky emerged from stealth with what it claimed was the first far-infrared (FIR) thermal...
Read MoreApex.AI raises $15.5 million for autonomous-vehicle software
Apex.AI is emerging out of stealth today with quite the claim — an operating system for autonomous vehicles that will never fail. Founded...
Read MoreRidecell expands funding round for autonomous ride-hailing platform to $60 million
Car-sharing, ride-sharing, and ride-hailing companies have something in common: They rely on fairly sophisticated backends to keep fleets...
Read MoreHyundai invests in startup to bring deep learning technology to autonomous cars
Aiming to bring deep learning (DL) technology to autonomous cars, Hyundai Center for Robotic-Augmented Design in Living Experience...
Read MoreDeepMap, a maker of HD maps for self-driving, raised at least $60M at a $450M valuation
As car and tech companies continue to make inroads on vehicles and services to build autonomous driving systems, a startup that is...
Read MoreChinese self-driving car startup raises $1 billion in funding
Momenta, a Chinese-based automotive startup, is the latest in a series of car manufacturers to raise significant amounts of funding in an...
Read MoreZF takes 35 percent stake in autonomous driving specialist ASAP
Car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen said on Friday it acquired a 35 percent stake in ASAP, a Germany-based maker of software and testing...
Read More