Cruise Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

SAIC Motor Corp Ltd builds and sells passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The company operates its business through two segments: the Vehicle and Parts Segment and the Financial Services Segment. The Vehicle and Parts segment focuses on the manufacturing and sale of automobiles and components. The Financial Services segment is engaged in offering various financial solutions. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Vehicle and Parts Segment.

Applied Intuition is a Mountain View-headquartered developer of simulation software, Vehicle OS, and self-driving toolchains for AI-driven autonomous vehicles. The company accelerates deployment across automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture sectors. Major global automakers and Department of Defense programs rely on its platforms to validate sensor suites, perception stacks, and planning algorithms. Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition maintains offices in Washington, D.C., San Diego, Ann Arbor, London, Stuttgart, Munich, Stockholm, Bangalore, Seoul, and Tokyo to support international engineering teams.

Aurora Innovation Inc delivers self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles. It underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. The Company is developing the Aurora Driver, a scalable suite of self-driving hardware, software, and data services designed as a platform to adapt and interoperate among vehicle types and applications.

General Motors Co. emerged from the bankruptcy of General Motors Corp. (old GM) in July 2009. GM has eight brands and operates under three segments: GM North America, GM International, and GM Financial. The United States now has four brands instead of eight under old GM. The company regained its US market share leadership in 2022, after losing it to Toyota due to the chip shortage in 2021. 2025 US share was 17.4%, up 60 basis points from 2024. The Cruise autonomous vehicle arm, which GM now owns outright, previously operated driverless geofenced AV robotaxi services in San Francisco and other cities, but after a 2023 accident, GM decided that it will focus on personal AVs. GM Financial became the company's captive finance arm in 2010 via the purchase of AmeriCredit.

Founded in 2015, XPeng is a leading Chinese smart electric vehicle company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets EVs in China. Its products primarily target the growing base of technology-savvy middle-class consumers in the midrange to high-end segment in China’s passenger vehicle market. The company sold over 190,000 EVs in 2024, accounting for about 2% of China’s passenger new energy vehicle market. It is also a leader in autonomous driving technology.

Argo AI was a Pittsburgh-headquartered developer of autonomous vehicle technology, operating engineering centers in Detroit, Cranbury, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, and Munich. Launched in 2016 by Ford and Volkswagen, it built the Argo Autonomy Platform for self-driving ridesharing and delivery until operations ceased in 2022 with technology transferred to Ford.

Mobileye Global Inc engages in the development and deployment of ADAS and autonomous driving technologies and solutions. It is building a portfolio of end-to-end ADAS and autonomous driving solutions to provide the capabilities needed for the future of autonomous driving, leveraging a comprehensive suite of purpose-built software and hardware technologies. The company's reportable operating segment are Mobileye and Moovit. Its solutions comprise Driver Assist, Cloud-Enhanced Driver Assist, Mobileye SuperVision Lite, Mobileye SuperVision, Mobileye Chauffeur, Mobileye Drive, Self-Driving System & Vehicles. It derives maximum revenue from Mobileye Segment.

Momenta Global Ltd is principally engaged in the development and provision of autonomous driving (AD) solutions in the People's Republic of China (the PRC) and provides services to corporate customers. It offers two solutions: the deployment of its solutions in mass-produced vehicles (Solutions forMass-produced Vehicles) and the development of a scalable, driverless AD mobility and logistics business (Solutions for Robotaxi Services). The company's majority of revenue is derived from the provision of technical development services to OEMs in the PRC.

Didi Woya is a Beijing-headquartered autonomous driving unit of Didi Chuxing focused on robotaxi development. The division deploys self-driving vehicles equipped with 360-degree sensors, machine learning, and IoT for ridesharing tests in China. Didi Woya advances commercialization of Level 4 autonomy for efficient urban transport.

Momenta is a Beijing-headquartered autonomous driving software company developing deep learning solutions for perception, high-definition semantic mapping, and path planning. The firm provides multi-level autonomy stacks and big data services, drawing on expertise from Faster R-CNN, ResNet developers, and ImageNet challenge winners.

Hong Jing Drive is a Hangzhou-based developer of Level 4 autonomous driving systems founded in 2018. Its full-stack platform integrates LiDAR, cameras, and radar sensors with computing hardware delivering 500 TOPS performance for robotaxis and trucking. Deployed in pilot fleets across Zhejiang province, it partners with Baidu Apollo for mapping and simulation testing.

Avride is a Moscow-headquartered developer of autonomous driving technology for ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. It equips self-driving vehicles with proprietary lidars, cameras, and radars to handle urban streets and rural roads in Russia and Central Asia. The company deploys four-wheeled sidewalk robots for package delivery, featuring sensors for obstacle avoidance and crosswalk navigation. Avride integrates its systems into Yandex platforms, enabling autonomous operations in Moscow, Kazan, and Tashkent since its 2022 spin-off from Yandex.

Hesai Group is engaged in the development, manufacture, and sales of three-dimensional light detection and ranging solutions, or LiDAR. Its LiDAR products enable a broad spectrum of applications across passenger or commercial vehicles with enhanced advanced driver assistance systems, or ADAS, autonomous vehicle fleets providing passenger and freight mobility services, or Autonomous Mobility, and other applications such as last-mile delivery robots, street sweeping robots, and logistics robots in restricted areas, or Robotics. Geographically, the company operates in North America, Mainland China, Europe, and Other regions.

Rimac Group is a Croatia-headquartered developer of electric vehicle technology, producing the Nevera hypercar with 1,914 horsepower and supplying powertrains to automakers. Founded in 2009 near Zagreb, Rimac partners with Bugatti-Rimac for high-performance EVs and Porsche for platform engineering. The company delivers battery systems, motors, and software for vehicles achieving sub-two-second 0-60 times.

WeRide Inc operates in the autonomous driving industry. The company has developed a universal autonomous driving technology platform that integrates full-stack software algorithms, modularized hardware solutions, and a cloud-based infrastructure platform. The company provides autonomous driving products and services from L2 to L4 vehicles. The products of the company includes Robotaxi, Robobus, Robovan, Robosweeper, and others. The company earns its revenue from the People's Republic of China.

Qianxun Spatial Intelligence is a Shanghai-headquartered provider of high-precision GNSS positioning services utilizing Beidou and GPS networks. Founded in 2015 as an Alibaba affiliate, it operates 50,000+ base stations delivering centimeter-level dynamic accuracy for autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics, and agriculture. Serving 100,000+ enterprise users, Qianxun supports national smart city initiatives with millimeter static precision.

Quanergy Systems is a San Jose-headquartered designer of 3D LiDAR sensors for automotive ADAS, industrial automation, and physical security. The company's S3 solid-state sensors deliver 1.3 million points per second with 120-degree FOV for object detection up to 300 meters. Deployed by 400 customers including Volvo and John Deere, Quanergy partners with 50 integrators globally. Founded in 2012, it emerged from Chapter 11 in 2023 to focus on smart sensing markets.

HL Mando Corp is engaged in the business of manufacturing automobile parts. Its products consist of brake systems, including brake comer modules, caliper brakes, drum brakes, master cylinders, boosters, proportioning valves, steering, suspension system, driver assistance system, and sensors. Geographically, the group operates in Korea, India, America and other countries.