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Zoox

Application

Autonomous vehicle company building purpose-built robotaxis.

Total funding$990M

Valuation—

Employees—

Founded2014

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Product

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

• Zoox Application Sold on its own

  Purpose-built driverless robotaxi service, hailed through the Zoox app in named US cities.

Closest alternatives 1

WWaymoPrivate · $126BArticle names Zoox as a new entrant into Waymo's robotaxi market. Waymo One and Zoox both carry drive-autonomously.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeSourced competitorBuild a self-driving systemCompare

Similar products 14

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TTeslaPublic · $1.4TZoox and Robotaxi do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareKMKakao MobilityPrivateZoox 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 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareAAvridePrivateZoox 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; ships platform and robot rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareNNuroPrivate · $6BZoox and Nuro Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareWWaabiPrivate · $1B raisedZoox and Waabi Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (private); ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareWWayvePrivate · $8.6BZoox and Wayve AI Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareAIApplied IntuitionPrivate · $15BZoox and Vehicle OS do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (private); ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareHRHorizon RoboticsPublic · $8.8BZoox and Horizon Mono do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (public); ships hardware and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareMMobileyePublicZoox 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 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BZoox and Apollo Go do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareAHArm HoldingsPublic · $282.8BZoox and Arm Zena CSS do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (public); ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareHHelsingPrivate · $18BZoox and CA-1 Europa both serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (private).Shared product typeCompareAIAnduril IndustriesPrivate · $61BZoox and Fury both serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (private); ships platform and robot rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TZoox and NVIDIA DRIVE do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (public); ships hardware, infrastructure service and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent 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

News reporting · 26 Jun 2020

"a self-driving startup founded in 2014 that has raised nearly $1 billion in funding" — TechCrunch, 2020-06-26, reporting Amazon's acquisition of Zoox for $1.2B. Zoox has been a wholly-owned Amazon subsidiary since 2020 and no longer raises independent funding, so this is a historical pre-acquisition figure.

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable figure found. Four sweeps were run and all came back empty for this company: (1) its own /about, /about-us, /company, /careers, /jobs and /team pages, pattern-matched for a self-published headcount; (2) stockanalysis.com's private-company page, which footnotes each figure to its source; (3) its Forbes company profile, which states a headcount and the month it is as of; (4) a targeted web search. Everything the search returned was a LinkedIn-scraping aggregator, and those disagree with each other by wide margins and cite nothing, so they are not used here. The field is null rather than carrying the round guess it held before.

Founded

Wikipedia · 11 Sep 2026

Founded July 29, 2014 by Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson.

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