About Us

Let’s make driverless autonomy a part of our world.

We’re inspired by the revolutionary changes that true autonomous mobility will bring to individuals, communities, and societies around the world. More freedom. More productivity. More safety. New economic opportunities. New solutions for some of the most intractable problems the world faces. While autonomous mobility has made tremendous progress since the original DARPA challenge, we’ve created an approach that we believe is the only viable path to driverless autonomy.

Our TEAM

Who We Are

We are a team of product designers and technology mavericks who believe that for artificial intelligence to achieve its full potential, it needs the ability to sense and perceive the physical world the way humans do. That’s our mission, and we will not settle for anything less than truly perceptive autonomous vehicles, robotics, and devices. We’re not creating things for a vague, distant future — We’re building things for today.

Join Us!

Reza Mahalati, Ph.D.

VP of Engineering

Oliver Bowen

Head of Software

Karthik Choutagunta, Ph.D

Algorithms

Dan Brukwinski

Hardware

John Hogan

Software

Ryan Gibbs

Software

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Tim Yao

Algorithms

Nancy Colah

Finance

Advisors

Bruce Graham

Advisor

Dave Lyons

Advisor

Robin Goldstein

Advisor

Karthik Balakrishnan, Ph.D

Advisor

Lauri Viitas

Advisor

David Gamba

Advisor

Diego Marchioni

Advisor

Backers

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Notable Angel Investors

Alex Cable
CEO, THORLABS
Prof Joseph Goodman
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Prof Robert Byer
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Gary Bradski
PRESIDENT, OPENCV
Marc Verdiell
CTO, SAMTEC