Overview
Ike was a self-driving truck startup founded by former Uber autonomous trucking engineers (from Otto). The company raised $52M in Series A funding and took a systems approach to autonomous trucking before being acquired by Waymo in 2021.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Background (reported)
Focus (reported)
Nuro acquisition (reported, Dec 2020)
Outcome (reported)
Data & sources
News coverage
2
Web sources
2
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Partnerships
Every company Ike has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1DHL Supply Chain1× joint
- 2NFI Industries1× joint
- 3Nuro1× joint
- 4Ryder System1× joint
Most recent
- with DHL Supply Chainjust announced
- Ike x Nuro (Technology Partnership)2018-10-01with Nurooperating
Relationships
Founders (3)
- Alden Woodrowcofounderno longer at company
previously at Uber
- Jur van den Bergcofounderno longer at company
previously at Waabi
- Nancy Suncofounderno longer at company
Former / Previously (3)
- Alden Woodrow Co-founder & CEO
- Jur van den Berg Co-founder & CTO
- Nancy Sun Co-founder & Chief Engineer
Safety record
No incidents on record for Ike.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Peers
88 peers across 1 segment. Every Ike competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
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Mentioned on (3)
Registry pages whose text names Ike.
People (3)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $52.0M
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Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating · 1 just announced · 1 ended
Every company Ike has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with DHL Supply Chainjust announced
- Ike x Nuro (Technology Partnership)2018-10-01with Nurooperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1DHL Supply Chain1× joint
- 2NFI Industries1× joint
- 3Nuro1× joint
- 4Ryder System1× joint
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Ike x DHL Ryder NFI (Autonomous Truck Deployment)withDHL Supply Chain,Ryder System,NFI Industriesdeployment2020-09-01announcedjust announced
- technology2018-10-01supersededoperating
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2019-02-05
$52M(reported)
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired by Nurofull acquisition2020-12-23
Timeline
Every recorded move in Ike’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Acquired byAcquired by Nuro
2020-12-23Acquired by Nuro (full_acquisition)
PartnershipIke x DHL Ryder NFI (Autonomous Truck Deployment)
2020-09-01Ike announced partnerships with Ryder, DHL Supply Chain, and NFI Industries to deploy Level 4 autonomous trucks on U.S. highways. The agreements aimed to install Ike's autonomous system in at least 1,000 trucks across the three logistics companies' fleets.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2019-02-01Series A raising $52000000
PartnershipIke x Nuro (Technology Partnership)
2018-10-01Nuro partnered with Ike, providing a copy of its autonomy and infrastructure software in exchange for an equity stake. The partnership enabled Ike to jumpstart development of autonomous trucking technology. Ike was subsequently acquired by Nuro in December 2020.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (4)
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-10
Sources by quality tier
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- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
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Methodology surface for Ike.Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/ike-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/ike-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/985d45e6-825b-4036-9e6c-c1eca84aeafe
- Revision history: /companies/ike-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
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Heat Index
Category contender79/100
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 Ike against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Funding runway warrants monitoring: last known round 94 months ago.
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Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 7, 2026