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Zoox

Transportation · Menlo Park, United States · Founded 2014 Unicorn

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

Valuation

$1–2.5B

Latest valuation · 2026

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Headcount

2–5k

Current team size

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Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026

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

Threshold Ventures

Lux Capital

Series A 6 investors entered at this stage

AID Partners Capital

Thomas Tull

Visionnaire Ventures

ARCHina Capital Management

Blackbird Ventures

Composite Capital Management

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 score94

ArintraEst. 2020

Nitesh ShroffUnited States

Signal score91

VayEst. 2018

Thomas von der OheGermany

Alex PeschUnited States

Signal score86

PebbleEst. 2022

BYBingrui YangUnited States

Signal score85

LaborupEst. 2024

Simba JongaUnited States

Signal score85

Zadar LabsEst. 2019

Mahmoud SaadatUnited States

Signal score81

specter automationEst. 2021

MGMax GierGermany

Signal score68

Spark AIEst. 2020

Michael KohenUnited States

Signal score67

Range EnergyEst. 2021

Ali JavidanUnited States

Signal score66

Monarch TractorEst. 2019

Mark SchwagerUnited States

Signal score65

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Global footprint

Where Zoox has talent and traffic

AI talent share

5.6% of workforce is AI talent
(256 of 4,610 staff)

Core AI1372.97%

Other AI1192.58%

Non-AI workforce4,35494.45%

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

310K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States66.2%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.3%

🇨🇦 Canada3%

🇩🇰 Denmark2.2%

🏳️ Korea2.1%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$4B patent portfolio · 15,163 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$4B

334.4% of valuation · 197.9× the top peer Pony.ai ($20M)

15,163 active patent families

Where Zoox innovates Data scienceReal-time computingData miningDistributed computingComputer 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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