Zoox

Transportation · Menlo Park, United States · Founded 2014

The first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market

Valuation $1–2.5B

Headcount 2–5k

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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier

Investors

9 investors on Zoox's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 2 investors entered at this stage

Lux Capital

Threshold Ventures

Series A 6 investors entered at this stage

ARCHina Capital Management

AID Partners Capital

Thomas Tull

Composite Capital Management

Blackbird Ventures

Visionnaire Ventures

Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage

Grok Ventures

Zoox mafia

Startups founded by Zoox alumni

Former Zoox employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

ExaEst. 2021

Will BrykUnited States

Signal score96

The Bot CompanyEst. 2024

Luke HoloubekUnited States

Signal score94

ArintraEst. 2020

Nitesh ShroffUnited States

Signal score92

CellaresEst. 2019

Alex PeschUnited States

Signal score89

VayEst. 2018

Thomas von der OheGermany

Simba JongaUnited States

Signal score85

PebbleEst. 2022

BYBingrui YangUnited States

Signal score83

FlexAIEst. 2023

Brijesh TripathiFrance

Signal score82

SkiffEst. 2020

Andrew MUnited States

Signal score82

Zadar LabsEst. 2019

Mahmoud SaadatUnited States

Signal score79

Me.meEst. 2015

JHJim HefnerNetherlands

Signal score74

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Global footprint

Where Zoox has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

19 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States97.7%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.9%

🇮🇳 India0.3%

🇨🇦 Canada0.3%

🇲🇽 Mexico0.1%

Top 5 of 19 shown

Web traffic by country

230K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States66.5%

🇮🇳 India5.4%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.1%

🇨🇦 Canada4%

🏳️ Korea1.8%

Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Zoox's talent

Dealroom maps Zoox's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

219 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org

256 AI specialistsincl. 137 core researchers

4,558 employees mappedperson by person

DimensionScore

AI Talentlive

Engineering

Product

Go-to-market

Leadership

Research

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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$4B patent portfolio · 15,417 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$4B

332.1% of valuation · 111.7× larger than top peer Pony.ai ($36M)

15,417 active patent families

Where Zoox innovates Data miningData scienceReal-time computingArtificial intelligenceAutomotive engineering

Where Zoox concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Zoox and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Zoox

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Zoox on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

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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