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FiveAI

Software for self-driving cars

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101-200 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Enterprise
  • Cars
Cambridge, UK

Company mission

To provide answers for the self-driving industry’s greatest challenges.

Top investors

-2% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Five develops software for self-driving vehicles in a B2B model, providing its software stack to other self-driving projects. The company has launched commuter trials on London streets as part of a research consortium named Streetwise with government backing, placing FiveAI at the forefront of driverless car technology in Europe.

The software company is aiming to build autonomy in complex urban environments without utilising dense 3D prior maps and localisation but instead using 'strong' AI to solve the challenge, resulting in a more scalable and flexible software.

Five has been acquired by Bosch (subject to approval by antitrust authorities) for an undisclosed amount. Bosch is a global leader in driving assistance technologies, with core technologies and vast data lakes that will be essential in bringing safe self-driving systems to market. Moving forward, Bosch and Five’s software engineering teams will be combined into one. Five's CEO is excited for Five to become part of Europe’s most powerful SAE Level 4 player and to be a part of Bosch’s future success.

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Benefits

  • You will be joining a European leader in the autonomous driving system market where you can have a real impact in a smart, low-ego multi-cultural team. We provide an environment where you can develop your skills and deliver meaningful work that matters. You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary and financial package, pension and private medical care
  • FiveAI is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all

Company values

  • Perpetual Improvement - We strive to continually improve; as individuals, each other, our teams, our products and our company
  • Science Engineered - We rigorously apply our mastery to intentionally design products that solve customer problems. Not more, not less
  • Impact Everyday - We believe in making a difference on a daily basis. This happens by empowering the right people in the right environment
  • Our values are underpinned by the implicit belief that we are “thoughtful and considerate humans” which is evidenced in our communication and by virtue of the value we place on team success over individual achievement

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Feb 2020

$41m

SERIES B

Jul 2017

$16.3m

GRANT

Total funding: $77.9m

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Leadership

Former co-founder and CEO at Icera Inc. and Element 14 Inc., acquired by NVIDIA and Broadcoms for > $1 billion. They were CEO at Acorn Computers and board member at ARM. Physics graduate (Cambridge).

Formerly Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom, co-founder and VP Systems & Software at Element 14, and CTO of Acorn Computers. Mathematics graduate (University of Cambridge).