Perceptive Automata

company

About

Perceptive Automata enables those vehicles to understand what people might do next so they can navigate safely and smoothly around humans.

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Details

Last Funding Type
Grant
Last Funding Money Raised
$224.63K
Industries
Artificial Intelligence,Automotive,Autonomous Vehicles,Machine Learning,Robotics,Transportation
Founded date
Jan 1, 2015
Number Of Employee
11 - 50
Operating Status
Active

Perceptive Automata is solving what is often described as the hardest of the hard problems for automated driving: human behavior prediction technology for the safe large-scale rollout of highly automated (L2/3) and autonomous (L4/5) vehicles, especially in urban areas.

The company enables those vehicles to understand what people might do next so they can navigate safely and smoothly around humans, including pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers. The level of understanding of our human-like AI goes well beyond what standard physics-based approaches can deliver, including information that can’t be gained any other way.

Importantly, in addition to increased safety, we enable a much more natural and smooth human-like driving of L4/5 autonomous vehicles. This is essential for autonomous vehicles to be accepted into a human-dominated road environment and also by passengers of robotaxi services. Without this capability autonomous vehicles simply will not function well enough.

Perceptive Automata is working with OEMs, suppliers, and tech companies that are building or integrating ADAS and autonomous driving systems.

The team is comprised of Harvard, MIT, and Stanford neuroscientists and AI experts working out of offices in Boston and Silicon Valley.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
3
$16.97M
Perceptive Automata has raised a total of $16.97M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Oct 9, 2018 from a Series A round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Oct 9, 2018 Series A $16M 1 Detail
Sep 19, 2017 Grant $749.95K 1 National Science Foundation Detail
Jun 24, 2016 Grant $224.63K 1 National Science Foundation Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
2
2
Perceptive Automata is funded by 2 investors. National Science Foundation and Toyota Ventures are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
National Science Foundation Yes Grant
Toyota Ventures Series A