Plus
Company

Last deal

$220M

Amount

Series D

Stage

01.04.2021

Date

3

all rounds

$520M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Plus is a global leader in self-driving trucks, developing technology to enable large-scale commercialization of autonomous transport.

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Also Known As

PlusAI, Plus.ai

founded date

01.06.2016

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series D

IPO status

Private

Description

The company, headquartered in Silicon Valley, is focused on creating high-performance full-stack Level 4 autonomous driving technology for long-haul trucking. Their first commercial product, PlusDrive, supports drivers and is already being delivered to world-class customers, including fleets and truck manufacturers. Using advanced sensing technologies like radar, LiDAR, and cameras, Plus provides a 360-degree sensing system to enhance safety and efficiency. With numerous industry awards and distinctions, Plus is at the forefront of the autonomous trucking revolution, making long-haul trucking safer, more sustainable, and more comfortable for drivers while reducing carbon emissions.
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Shawn Kerrigan
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Shawn Kerrigan

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current job

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David Liu
David Liu

David Liu

Dr. David Liu is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Plus. He is an entrepreneur passionate about creating technology-driven products. Previously, he built three successful companies RedAtoms, RMG Networks, and InformLink. He started his career at Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics, and later McKinsey. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

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1

David Liu

Tim Daly
Tim Daly

Tim Daly

Mr. Tim Daly is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Architect at Plus. He is helping to develop a new state-of-the-art, Level 4 self-driving system using deep learning and advanced AI techniques. He has over two decades of technical leadership experience in challenging domains, including artificial intelligence (AI), web search, machine learning, and distributed computing. Tim has an expansive body of technical contributions in areas including the web search architecture and machine learning ranking system of the third largest search engine in the world. He has also made significant open-source contributions to cloud infrastructure and programming languages, and received the best paper award at KDD. He has been granted 14 patents in the US and has over 30 pending applications in self-driving technology.

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Employee Profiles
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Steve Spinner

Steve Spinner

Advisor to the CEO for Finance & Strategic Initiatives

Yew Jin Kang

Yew Jin Kang

CTO

Lori Heino-Royer

Lori Heino-Royer

Sr. Director Strategic Partnerships

Guang Yang

Principal engineer, head of infrastructure and simulation

Vanessa Lee

Office manager

Qiaoyu Zhang

Member of technical staff

Marshall Choi

Marshall Choi

HR & Recruiting

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Tim Daly

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