Aurora, a startup pioneer in auto-driving, recently completed a fundraising plan totaling $ 90 million, highlighting investors' enthusiasm for self-driving. According to the FT, investors involved in Aurora's financing include Index Ventures and Greylock, which are estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars at the moment. Aurora was founded more than a year ago by Chris Urmson, former head of Google's self-driving car (now Waymo), and Sterling Anderson, former head of Tesla Autopilot's program, Co-founder Drew Bagnell, one of the founders, Index Ventures partner Mike Volpi said that experience is important when developing a technology that is both novel and cutting-edge.Waymo is obviously the self-driving leader, , Believe they will once again create a great business.Linx co-founder and also a Creylock partner Reid Hoffman also optimistic about Urmson, he considered the background alone, Urmson is the autobahn Henry Ford (Henry Ford Most Silicon Valley self-driving plans to build their own cars, Aurora is taken with the traditional car system So far, Aurora has finalized a partnership with Volkswagen, Hyundai Motor and Byton, China, to raise funds to speed up partnerships with these partners Technology research and development.Volpi that, Aurora's strategy can make it and general self-driving car business district away, so will be able to side by side with the traditional car dealer, rather than mutually antagonistic.Therefore, Aurora's customer base in addition to the car In addition to business operators, it also extends to fleet operators such as Uber and Lyft, while other Silicon Valley self-driving business models appear somewhat obscure.
