Nuro

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Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Nuro is a privately held autonomous-driving and physical-AI company founded by former Waymo engineers. It develops the Nuro Driver™, a universal autonomy platform combining AI software with automotive-grade hardware, and has pivoted from operating its own low-speed delivery fleet to licensing autonomy technology to automakers, mobility platforms, and commercial fleets.

Primary product

Nuro Driver™ / Universal Autonomy Platform: an AI-first SAE Level 4 autonomous-driving system intended for robotaxis, logistics fleets, and personally owned vehicles.

Founded

2016

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Team size

Approximately 500–1,000; about 700 reported in August 2025

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Autonomous vehicles / software development

Sub-industry

AI robotics, self-driving technology, mobility and automotive software

Offices

Mountain View, California (headquarters)

Toronto, Canada (engineering office)

San Francisco, California

Washington, D.C. (policy office)

Southern Nevada (build and validation / testing)

Business model

Technology licensing to automakers and mobility platforms

Driver-as-a-Service (DaaS) partnerships

Autonomy software and hardware integration for commercial fleets

Strategic vehicle and robotaxi partnerships

Funding

Stage

Late-stage private company; Series E

Total raised

$2.3B

Latest round

Series E · Aug 2025

Latest amount

$203M

Series E, closing tranche

Aug 2025

$97M

Series E, initial tranche

Apr 2025 · T. Rowe Price Associates

$106M

Series D

Nov 2021 · Tiger Global Management

$600M

Series C extension / strategic financing

Mar 2021 · Chipotle

Series C

Nov 2020 · T. Rowe Price Associates

$500M

Series B

Feb 2019 · SoftBank Vision Fund

$940M

Series A

Jan 2018 · Greylock Partners

$92M

People & investors

Leadership

Jiajun Zhu

Co-founder and Co-CEO

Dave Ferguson

Co-founder and Co-CEO / President

Mike Mancini

Chief Financial Officer

David Salguero

Chief Communications / Communications leader

Robert Kim

Head of Autonomous Vehicle Hardware Engineering

Investors

Work & culture

Nuro emphasizes engineering rigor, safety, inclusion and continuous improvement. Its stated values are “Earn it,” “1% better every day,” “Find a way,” “Act now,” and “One team.” The company also describes diversity, inclusion and belonging initiatives and early-career pathways including community-college AV and EV training partnerships.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

Public job postings show role- and location-dependent base salary bands; one ML-infrastructure posting listed approximately $160,360–$240,540 base pay plus annual performance bonus, equity and benefits. No company-wide compensation table was found.

Benefits

401(k)

Restricted stock units / equity

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Fertility benefits

Healthcare insurance

Behavioral-wellbeing support

Paid holidays

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly disclosed; appears to be negotiated enterprise licensing / partnership economics rather than consumer pricing.

Differentiators

—Universal, vehicle-agnostic autonomy platform
—Integrated AI software and automotive-grade hardware
—SAE Level 4 deployment and testing experience
—Partner-led, capital-efficient licensing model
—Designed for multiple use cases including robotaxis, logistics and personal vehicles
—Nuro Toolkit and development infrastructure for partners

Technology

Nuro Driver autonomous-driving stack

AI and machine learning

Computer vision, perception, prediction and planning

NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA Drive AGX Thor

Solid-state lidar, cameras and radar

C++ and Python

CUDA

PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow and Keras

Bazel

ROS / DriveOS

Kubernetes, GraphQL, gRPC and PostgreSQL

Customers

Uber

Lucid

Uber Eats

Toyota / Woven Capital relationship

Kroger

Walmart

Domino’s

Chipotle

FedEx

Competitors

Waymo

Zoox

Tesla

Motional

Aurora

Applied Intuition

Apex.AI

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Unavailable from reliable public financial disclosures; third-party estimates report approximately $750 million annually, but this is unverified and should be treated cautiously.

Signals & risks

Layoff

Nuro conducted multiple rounds of layoffs, including cuts reported as approximately 20% and later 30% of the workforce, amid cost pressure and a difficult funding environment.

Source

Other

Jan 2024

The company stopped pursuing ownership and operation of its own low-speed delivery-robot fleet and shifted toward licensing its autonomy technology to OEMs and mobility providers.

Source

Other

Apr 2025

Series E valuation of $6 billion was below the $8.6 billion valuation associated with the 2021 Series D, indicating a material valuation reset.

Source

Other

May 2026

Nuro received a California permit for driverless testing of Lucid Gravity vehicles, but still required additional deployment and driverless ride-hailing approvals before a public commercial service.

Source

Latest news

Uber’s commitment to self-driving startup Nuro is close to $500 million, sources say

Reuters · Jun 2026

Reuters reported that Uber’s total commitment to Nuro is close to $500 million, connected to a planned Nuro-Lucid-Uber robotaxi program targeting 35,000 vehicles over time.

Nuro receives driverless testing permit ahead of Uber robotaxi service launch

TechCrunch · May 2026

California authorized driverless public-road testing of Nuro-equipped Lucid Gravity SUVs; further permits remain necessary for paid driverless rides.

Nuro’s AV pivot paying off as Uber deployment nears

Automotive World · Feb 2026

Coverage described Nuro’s shift to a DaaS/licensing model, the Uber-Lucid partnership, and an expected initial Bay Area robotaxi deployment in late 2026.

Nuro closes $203 Million Series E Financing

Nuro · Aug 2025

Nuro announced the completed $203 million Series E financing to support AI-first autonomy and commercial partnerships.

Nuro’s $106M raise backs its shift from delivery robots to licensing autonomy tech

TechCrunch · Apr 2025

The initial Series E tranche supported Nuro’s licensing-focused strategy and commercial expansion through 2027.

Jobs and careers at Nuro

107 jobs at Nuro

Technical Lead Manager, Motion Validation

On-site

Autonomy

Mountain View, California (HQ); Nuro HQ - Mountain View, CA

4d ago

On-site

Full-time