Sequoia Puts $500M into self driving startup Aurora
Photo by Chris Brandt
I am always interested in keeping an eye on what is happening in the autonomous vehicle space, and I am particularly interested in what Sequoia invests in. For those of you unfamiliar with this storied venture capital firm, they have been the money behind many blockbuster investments like, Apple, Cisco and Oracle.
So it peaks my interest that they recently sunk half a billion dollars into Aurora. Aurora’s CEO is Chris Urmson who was formally CTO at Waymo. The other founders are Sterling Anderson from Tesla and Drew Bagnell from Uber.
From TFA:
““We’d like to be the system. So we’re going to work on the software and we’re going to build a reference architecture that we’ll share with automotive partners,” Urmson said on Recode Decode in 2017. “That’ll include — these are the sensors you should have, these are roughly where you should have them on the vehicle, and this is the computation you should have.””
