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Cruise
Building self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about
At a glance
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- Transportation
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Cruise.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed29 investors entered at this stage
Founder Collective- PCPatrick Collinson
- SPSignia Venture Partners
- MVMaven Ventures
- QVQuotidian Ventures
Zillionize- JCJohn Collison
- TVTravis VanderZanden
AME Cloud Ventures
Initialized Capital- ESEmmett Shear
- CCColin Carrier
- MSMichael Siebel
Daniel Gross
Avichal Garg- SAStewart Alsop
- TBTikhon Bernstam
SV Angel
David Beyer
Lee Linden
Y Combinator
Homebrew- DRDavid Rusenko
Felicis- ASAdam Smith
- SHSteve Huffman
Justin Kan- DCDaniel Curran
Tuesday Capital
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later10 investors entered at this stage
- WAWalmart
Microsoft- HSHonda Soltec
SoftBank Vision Fund- ECEleven Two Capital
Qualcomm Ventures- GMGeneral Motors
- HOHonda
Softbank Capital
T. Rowe Price
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Cruise employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
TCThe Bot CompanyEst. 2024
Luke HoloubekUnited States
Oliver CameronUnited States
RORoboForceEst. 2023
FOFoxgloveEst. 2021
LALanceDBEst. 2022
Lei XuUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
740 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Cruise was the backer or acquirer, 2016–2021. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
5 deals across Cruise's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Cruise deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Cruise's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Cruise on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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