AI

Applied Intuition

Application

Vehicle software company selling simulation, data tooling and autonomy stacks for cars, trucks, defence and off-road vehicles.

Total funding$850M

Valuation$15B

Employees1,290

Founded2017

HeadquartersSunnyvale, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Self-Driving System (SDS) Platform

  Unified stack for deploying autonomous machines across land, air and sea, combining domain-specific sensing and control architectures with fleet data that feeds continuous improvement.

• Vehicle OS Platform

  Unified operating system that lets teams design, deploy and evolve intelligent machines' in-car software and driver assistance.

• Dana Platform

  Agentic platform for building, testing, deploying and operating intelligent machines across industries at scale.

Similar products 23

No sourced competitor yet: no filing, vendor document or measured-market report read so far names a rival for this company, so none is asserted. The companies below are the closest by what their products do.

How this list is ranked ↗

WWaabiPrivate · $1B raisedSelf-Driving System (SDS) and Waabi World do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (private).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWWaymoPrivate · $126BVehicle OS and Waymo Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareNNuroPrivate · $6BVehicle OS and Nuro Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; smaller scale (private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareWWayvePrivate · $8.6BVehicle OS and Wayve AI Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTeslaPublic · $1.4TVehicle OS and Full Self-Driving (Supervised) do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (public).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAAvridePrivateVehicle OS and Universal Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZooxPrivate · $990M raisedVehicle OS and Zoox do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (private); ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHRHorizon RoboticsPublic · $8.8BVehicle OS and Horizon SuperDrive do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (public).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKMKakao MobilityPrivateVehicle OS and 카카오모빌리티 자율주행 do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMobileyePublicVehicle OS and SuperVision / Chauffeur do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Mobileye's scale not recorded; ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BVehicle OS and Baidu Apollo Open Platform do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (public).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TSelf-Driving System (SDS) and NVIDIA DRIVE do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (public).3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAHArm HoldingsPublic · $282.8BVehicle OS and Arm Zena CSS do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (public); ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareVSVerint SystemsAcquiredOverlaps on agent orchestration and evaluation and observability; Verint Systems is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDataikuPrivate · $3.7BOverlaps on agent orchestration and evaluation and observability; smaller scale (private).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSServiceNowPublic · $130.1BOverlaps on agent orchestration and evaluation and observability; larger scale (public).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAIAnduril IndustriesPrivate · $61BOverlaps on agent orchestration; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareSSierraPrivate · $15.8BOverlaps on agent orchestration and evaluation and observability; ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareRRobinhoodPublic · $108.6BOverlaps on agent orchestration; larger scale (public); ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareGGlean (Glean Technologies)Private · $7.2BOverlaps on agent orchestration; smaller scale (private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareAAmazonPublic · $2.8TOverlaps on agent orchestration and evaluation and observability; larger scale (public).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSASnorkel AIPrivate · $1.3BOverlaps on agent orchestration; smaller scale (private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareHHelsingPrivate · $18BOverlaps on agent orchestration; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompare

Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 11 Sep 2026

Forbes company profile states this figure verbatim. Confirmed, matches the recorded value. (CB Insights separately shows $1.202B including a later $600M Series F not reflected in the Forbes figure; not applied here.)

Valuation

News reporting · 17 Jun 2025

Applied Intuition valued at $15 billion for autonomous vehicle tech, Reuters, 2025-06-17. post-money valuation of the round dated 2025-06-17. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Employees

News reporting · Apr 2026

Forbes company profile for Applied Intuition, "Employees" stated as of April 2026. Read 2026-08-27.

Founded

Wikipedia · 11 Sep 2026

"In January 2017, Younis started Applied Intuition, along with co-founder Peter Ludwig..."

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

The products page lists Dana, Tools for Vehicle Intelligence (simulation, evaluation, ingestion, data collection), the Self-Driving System and a Vehicle Operating System "for robots, trucks, drones, and humanoids" — self-driving is one product of four.

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