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Argo AI

Automated vehicle perception systems

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1001+ employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Tech
  • Mobility
  • Machine Learning
  • Automation
Strip District, Pittsburgh, PA

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Company mission

To make the world's streets and roadways safe, accessible, and useful for all.

Our take

Over the years, progress has been made in improving road safety, though they’ve been more focused on protecting vehicle occupants. Argo AI’s self-driving vehicles are fitted with over 31 sensors to extend vehicle safely to those outside the vehicle. Automated driving can be broken down into four steps: perception, prediction, path planning, and control.

Across the industry, reliable prediction has proved to be the hardest to solve. Argo AI’s perception system classifies everything the sensors see into one of several classes, characterizing behaviors of those classes so the vehicle is prepared to react to anything happening around it.

Argo AI is majority owned by Ford and Volkswagen and partnered with Lyft and Walmart, allowing the company to break into the retail, e-commerce and commercial delivery. With impressive funding, powerful partnerships, and its new Safety Advisory Council, the company is set to bring safe autonomous driving to industries and cities across the world.

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Benefits

  • Variety of Discounted Memberships
  • Professional Development Stipend
  • Employee Assistance Programs
  • 13 Paid Holidays

Company values

  • Safety
  • Empowering Neurodiversity
  • Building Meaningful Research Connections
  • Honesty and Humility
  • Respect

Funding (2 rounds)

Jun 2020

$2.6bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Feb 2017

$1bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $3.6bn

Leadership

Bryan Salesky

(CEO)

Previous Director of Hardware Development (Self-Driving Cars) at Google, also worked as a Technical Program Manager at Google. Worked at the NREC Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, advancing from Senior Software Engineer, to Commercialization Specialist (holding both Senior and Principal titles).

Peter Rander

(President)

Previous Engineering Lead at the Uber Advanced Technology Center. Worked at NREC Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, as a Commercialization Specialist (holding both Senior and Principal titles) and Associate Director of Operations. Previous Manager of Technology at Zaxel Systems, Inc.