About

Founded

2017

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Industry

Automotive

Company Description

Applied Intuition is a vehicle software supplier that accelerates the adoption of safe and intelligent machines worldwide. Applied Intuition provides a simulation and validation platform for various industries such as automotive, trucking, construction, and more.

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Funding

Total Raised

$350 million

Valuation

$3.6 billion

Significant Investors

Elad Gil, Addition, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Lux Capital

Company Traction

As of July 2023, Applied Intuition counts 17 out of the top 20 automotive original equipment manufacturers as customers, including Toyota, Nissan, Daimler Torc, Volkswagen Group, Kodiak, May Mobility, and GM.

In May 2023, Applied Intuition won a contract (estimated to be less than ~$7.5 million) to provide virtual sensor optimization solutions to the Air Force.

In February 2022, Applied Intuition was selected to participate in a multi-award blanket purchase agreement of $249 million with the Department of Defense to provide AI and autonomy testing and evaluation software.

Leadership Team

Qasar Younis: Co-Founder & CEO of Applied Intuition. Former General Partner and COO at Y Combinator.

Peter Ludwig: Co-Founder & CTO of Applied Intuition. Former Product Manager and Software Engineer at Google.

Vijaysai Patnaik: Head of Product at Applied Intuition. Former Head of Product, Self-Driving Trucks at Waymo.

Rohan Pai: Head of Global Application Engineering at Applied Intuition. Former Software Engineer at Sourcegraph.

Mary Liu: Head of Finance at Applied Intuition. Former Strategy Lead, Google Assistant at Google.

Press

TechCrunch (May 25, 2023): Applied Intuition to buy autonomous trucking SPAC Embark for $71M

Breaking Defense (May 10, 2023): Startup Applied Intuition wins AFWERX contract for ‘virtual sensor optimization’

Applied Intuition Blog (February 2, 2022): Applied Intuition Awarded Position on Department of Defense $249M BPA for AI and Autonomy Test & Evaluation

Applied Intuition Blog (November 11, 2021): Announcing Our $175M Series D Funding Co-Led by Elad Gil, Addition, and Coatue Management

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