The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Applied Intuition: $15.0B raised. 3 sources back the record.
Funding
$15.0B
Employees
1.5k
Overview
Mountain View-based autonomous vehicle software company providing simulation tools, vehicle OS, and data platforms for AV development. Co-founded in 2017 by Qasar Younis, Applied Intuition raised 00M in Series F at a 5B valuation, co-led by BlackRock and Kleiner Perkins. The company licenses its simulation software to autonomous vehicle companies worldwide.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Co-founder
Total fundingsee investors →
Valuationsee valuations ranking →
Products
Physical AI platform
Vehicle OS scope
Data & sources
Web sources
3
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Current leadership (1)
- Qasar Younis Co-founderreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Qasar Youniscofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Applied Intuition.
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Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Brains developed (1)
- Applied Intuition AV Stackframework · production
Recent coverage
Applied Intuition in third-party press
Financial state
- Total funding
- $15.0B
- Employees
- 1,531
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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Funding rounds (3)
Applied Intuition’s 3 disclosed rounds, $15.0B in total, oldest to newest.
- Funding
$5.0B(reported)
- Funding
$5.0B(reported)
- Funding
$5.0B(reported)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 27, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-29
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-29
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Applied Intuition.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Applied Intuition from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Saudi AI Firm Humain, Applied Intuition Partner on Self-Driving Trucks
Saudi Arabia’s Humain is partnering with Applied Intuition Inc. to deploy self-driving trucks by 2030, as the kingdom’s leading artificial intelligence firm looks to find…
AV and Applied Intuition Establish Strategic Collaboration to Advance Uncrewed Teaming
Applied Intuition’s Acuity ISR/Strike software to enable collaborative hunter-killer and swarm behaviors on AV’s Mayhem™ 10 Launched Effects system ARLINGTON, Va. and SUNNYVALE,…
Applied Intuition launches Dana agentic platform for physical AI
Applied Intuition has launched Dana – an agentic platform for building, testing, deploying and operating physical AI systems. The platform combines agentic AI with Applied…
Autonomous & Self-Driving Vehicle News: Waymo, Teradar, PlusAI, Mobileye, Tesla, Uber, Nuro, Lucid, Stellantis, Wayve, WeRide, Applied Intuition, Roadzen &
In autonomous and self-driving vehicle news are Waymo, Teradar, PlusAI, Mobileye, Tesla, Uber, Nuro, Lucid, Stellantis, Wayve, WeRide, Applied Intuition, Roadzen and drivebuddyAI.…
Applied Intuition hits 5B valuation with 00M Series F
Applied Intuition raised 00M Series F at 5B valuation, co-led by BlackRock and Kleiner Perkins.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/applied-intuition.md
- RSS feed: /companies/applied-intuition/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/3ef73450-6692-42ac-8645-50193cdbc7e4
- Revision history: /companies/applied-intuition/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Applied Intuition against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
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DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 5, 2026