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Cruise

Self-driving vehicles

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1001+ employees
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Enterprise
  • Transport
  • Mobility
  • Robotics
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Automation
China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Company mission

To create a better world by deploying driverless cars at scale.

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

29% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

The taxi industry has seen dramatic changes through mobile vehicle-hailing apps such as Uber, but these services focus simply on ease-of-access to regular taxi services. The automotive industry has seen a vast range of innovations in recent years such as electric cars and self-driving capability, features that are currently not found in existing services.

Cruise brings self-driving autonomy and electric cars together into a taxi-hailing mobile application. In addition to these innovations, the service focuses on efficiency through ride-sharing as opposed to each ride providing a single trip. Whilst other taxi-hailing services will inevitably turn to electric self-driving vehicles, Cruise shows potential to stand out through its AI-fuelled focus on carpooling and fleet efficiency.

Cruise, which has been acquired by General Motors, has received an inordinate amount of funding, including from Honda and Microsoft, with Softbank investing over $2B to scale its technology. A sum of this came after Cruise launched a limited driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco. However, the company is now facing lawsuits from the city to limit its operations there after a series of accidents involving Cruise's vehicles.

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Benefits

  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays
  • Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise)
  • Subsidized mental health benefits
  • Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
  • One Medical membership
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • 401(k) match
  • Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks
  • Paid parental, family care and medical leave
  • CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time

Company values

  • Stay safe
  • Stay focused
  • Own it
  • Seek truth
  • Work together
  • Be humble
  • Be a customer

Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)

Jun 2024

$850m

LATE VC

Feb 2022

$1.3bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $9.1bn

This company has top investors

Leadership

Craig Glidden

(CEO (Not Founder))

Is also currently the Executive Vice President of General Motors in its Legal wing.

Jobs (12)

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