1. Nuro
Headquarters: Mountain View
Founders: Jiajun Zhu (CEO), Dave Ferguson
Funding: $1.03 billion
Valuation: $2.7 billion
And in the #1 spot on Forbes list of the top promising AI companies in the US, its Nuro. This company found a niche and filled it well. Supplying the world with driverless delivery vehicles, Nuro has removed the people factor from the autonomous driving equation and substituted a service that people require; local goods. And in doing so, Nuro bypassed safety and technical restraints. "You can drive more conservatively because you don't have someone inside the vehicle that's getting frustrated," says Dave Ferguson, a co-founder of Nuro. With partnerships with grocery giants like Kroger's, it seems Nuro is definitely on its way to deliver big numbers in the future--and groceries.
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