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Avride

Application

Autonomous-driving and delivery-robot maker spun out of Yandex's self-driving group, sharing one perception-and-planning stack between its robotaxis and sidewalk delivery robots; a wholly owned Nebius Group subsidiary.

Subsidiary of Nebius Group

Total funding—

Valuation—

Employees—

Founded2017

HeadquartersAustin, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

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

Inside Uber

• Universal Driver Platform Included with the parent

  Level 4 self-driving system -- five proprietary lidars, four radars and thirteen cameras for 360-degree perception -- operating Avride's robotaxi fleet on Uber's platform, commercially launched in Dallas.

Inside Uber Eats

• Avride Delivery Robot Robot Included with the parent

  Fully autonomous four-wheeled sidewalk delivery robot -- 25kg cargo capacity, 50km range, lidar/camera/ultrasonic sensing -- offered as a delivery option inside the Uber Eats app in Austin, Dallas and Jersey City, with 200,000+ deliveries completed.

Similar products 26

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 ↗

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both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWWayvePrivate · $8.6BUniversal Driver and Wayve AI 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 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKMKakao MobilityPrivateUniversal Driver and 카카오모빌리티 자율주행 do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAIApplied IntuitionPrivate · $15BUniversal Driver and Vehicle OS 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 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAIAnduril IndustriesPrivate · $61BAvride Delivery Robot and Ghost do comparable work on robot control; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHelsingPrivate · $18BAvride Delivery Robot and HX-2 do comparable work on robot control; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHRHorizon RoboticsPublic · $8.8BUniversal Driver and Horizon SuperDrive 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 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAApptronikPrivate · $5.3BAvride Delivery Robot and Apollo do comparable work on robot control; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBDBoston DynamicsAcquiredAvride Delivery Robot and Spot / Atlas do comparable work on robot control; Avride's scale not recorded; Boston Dynamics is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSASanctuary AIPrivateAvride Delivery Robot and Phoenix do comparable work on robot control; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare1T1X TechnologiesPrivate · $820MAvride Delivery Robot and NEO do comparable work on robot control; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFAFigure AIPrivate · $39BAvride Delivery Robot and Figure 03 do comparable work on robot control; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMobileyePublicUniversal Driver and SuperVision / Chauffeur do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; scale not recorded for either; ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRRunwayPrivate · $5.3BAvride Delivery Robot and Runway Robotics do comparable work on robot control; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSASkild AIPrivate · $14BAvride Delivery Robot and Skild Brain do comparable work on robot control; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BUniversal Driver and Baidu Apollo Open Platform 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 2 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePIPhysical IntelligencePrivate · $11.2BAvride Delivery Robot and π0 do comparable work on robot control; Avride's scale not recorded; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareARAgility RoboticsPrivate · $2.5BAvride Delivery Robot and Digit do comparable work on robot control; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSymboticPublic · $24.6BAvride Delivery Robot and SymBot do comparable work on robot control; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSenseTimePublic · $7.7BAvride Delivery Robot and SenseRobot do comparable work on robot control; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TUniversal Driver and NVIDIA DRIVE do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Avride's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAHArm HoldingsPublic · $282.8BUniversal Driver and Arm Zena CSS do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Avride's scale not recorded; ships hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare

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

Not found · 26 Sep 2026

Nebius's own newsroom post (2025-10-22) states Uber and Nebius are committing 'up to $375 million' in 'strategic investment and other commitments' -- a mix of an equity-convertible note and commercial/fleet commitments, with Avride declining to disclose the split (Transport Topics, 2025-10-22, quoting an Avride spokesperson: Uber's contribution is structured as a convertible note and 'Avride will remain a wholly owned subsidiary of Nebius'). No figure isolates funding actually raised by Avride as opposed to commercial commitments, so funding_total stays null rather than recording the $375M headline as an equity raise.

Valuation

Checked — none published

No independent valuation for Avride is published; it remains a wholly owned Nebius Group subsidiary with no separate priced round.

Employees

Checked — none published

No headcount is published on avride.ai (home, about, careers, privacy policy). Wikipedia states 270 employees, but headcount is not one of the two fields the wikipedia exception covers on a company record, so it is not written here.

Founded

Company disclosure · 26 Sep 2026

Avride's own About page states the company 'was established in 2017' by engineers who had been working on autonomous-driving technology at Yandex. Avride Inc., the current legal entity, was formed later (Wikipedia: Dec 4, 2020, the Yandex/Uber self-driving spin-off) -- the same operating-business-vs-reorganisation split already recorded on Alphabet's founded field (1998, not the 2015 holding-company restructuring).

Description

Company disclosure · 26 Sep 2026

Avride's own About page: engineers 'many of whom have been working on the autonomous driving technology at Yandex' before Avride was 'established in 2017'; homepage names the two product lines, the Autonomous Driver (/driver) and the Delivery Robot (/robot), sharing technology and 'learning from one another'.

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