Zoox is a robotics company developing autonomous vehicle fleet using the technology of robotics and machine learning that is headquartered in Foster City, California and was founded in 2014 by Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson. It aims to provide autonomous mobility as-a-service in the urban.
In July 2015 Zoox completed their seed funding round with $40 million in funding from undisclosed investors.
In November 2016 Zoox completed their series A funding round with $250 million in funding from undisclosed investors. At the time of announcing their series A funding Zoox came out of stealth mode with a company valuation of $1.55 billion.
On July 18, 2018 Zoox completed a venture capital round with $500 million in series B funding from Grok Ventures (lead investor) and Blackbird Ventures. At the time of receiving their venture funding Zoox had a company evaluation of $2.7 billion. The company plans on using the funding to deploy their autonomous vehicles by 2020.
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Funding rounds
People
Amanda Lind
Employee
Anne-Elyse Wachur
Employee
Anthony Kuhl
Employee
Brandon Feig
Employee
Carl Bass
Board member
Dimitri Alves
Employee
Felix Lorsignol
Employee
Frank Ramírez
Employee
Greg Zanghi
Employee
James Pearson Hughes
Employee
Jesse Levinson
Co-Founder
Jim Pallotta
Investor
Joseph Wu
Employee
Kit Cutler
Employee
Laurie Yoler
Board member
Luke Robus
Employee
Mark Schwager
Employee
Matt Rudolph
Employee
Megan Yee
Employee
Reid Rosenberg
Employee
Sandy Kory
Investor
Sophia Ho-Sing-Loy
Employee
Tim Kentley-Klay
Co-Founder
