# Embark Trucks: company

Canonical ID: `761d03fd-960b-4437-b8fb-08d886695a98`

## Key facts

- **Founded:** 2016, San Francisco, by Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak
- **Public:** SPAC via Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp II (2021, ~$5.2B valuation)
- **Historical peak:** Test/pilot freight runs WITH safety drivers (1.5M+ test miles); never reached sustained observer-free driverless commercial (2024 driver-out goal unmet)
- **Wind-down:** ~70% layoffs late 2022; wound down March 2023; IP sold to Applied Intuition (~$71M, 2023)

- **Slug:** embark
- **Status:** discontinued
- **Founded:** 2016
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California, USA

## Models

- [Embark Autonomous Truck](/models/embark-truck.md) (truck) (id: `4bbc007f-c1e2-47c9-8199-b1a37d99a5ac`)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Sources (10)

1. https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/inside-embarks-mission-to-make-autonomous-trucking-a-reality/
2. https://www.ttnews.com/articles/embark-self-driving-truck-completes-coast-coast-test-run
3. https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/23/autonomous-trucking-startup-embark-to-go-public-in-5-2b-spac-deal/
4. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/embark-ceo-alex-rodrigues-taking-driverless-truck-firm-public-via-spac.html
5. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001827980/000121390021033824/ea143196-425_northerngene2.htm
6. https://www.therobotreport.com/embark-announces-plans-to-expand-to-texas/
7. https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/03/embark-trucks-lays-off-workers-explores-liquidation-of-self-driving-truck-assets/
8. https://www.truckingdive.com/news/embark-lays-off-230-employees-explores-exit-strategy/644282/
9. https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/25/applied-intuition-to-buy-autonomous-trucking-spac-embark-for-71m/
10. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/embark-technology-goes-private-in-71m-deal

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