The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Plus: 3 models, 8 deployments across 5 regions, $740.0M raised. 6 sources back the record.
Plus holds 1 Regulatory filing, per the DEPLOY registry.
See all 1 filingsCategoryTrucks
Appears inLogistics robots
Overview
Autonomous trucking technology company (formerly Plus.ai). Develops AI-powered self-driving software for long-haul freight trucks. Founded 2016 by four Stanford PhD graduates. Split US/China operations in 2023; US Unit retains Plus brand. First cross-country autonomous freight delivery completed Dec 2019.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 8 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries B post-money
Key facts
Product
Founders
Patents
Fundingsee investors →
Partners
Split
Milestone
Data & sources
Patent documents
4
Web sources
2
6 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (3)
View all models →Current platform
Plus Autonomous Truck
Plus autonomous trucking software for driverless freight.
Current platform
PlusDrive
PlusDrive is an AI-powered autonomous highway driving system for Class 8 semi-trucks, offering SAE Level 2+ ADAS and a scalable path to Level 4. It integrates with standard truck OBD and supports driver-in-the-loop and fully autonomous configurations.
Current platform
Plus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck
Plus's autonomous-truck product: the SuperDrive L4 virtual driver factory-integrated into OEM truck platforms (International LT-series, IVECO S-Way, and Hyundai hydrogen fuel-cell trucks). Plus has no standalone branded truck; the product is the OEM-integrated SuperDrive truck. In supervised fleet trials (safety drivers); pre driver-out.
Partnerships
Every company Plus has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1International Truck1× joint
Most recent
- International Truck x PlusAI x NVIDIA2025-10-28with International Truckoperating
Plus on the deployment map
View the global map8 verified deployments across 5 regions, newest verified Aug 2026. Explore where Plus's robots are operating, by place and type.
- pilotPlus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck at I-35 Freight Corridor, Texas, USA →Texas · verified Aug 2026
- pilotPlus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck at I-35 Freight Corridor, Texas, USA →Texas · verified Mar 2026
- operationalPlus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck at Europe and USA →Europe and United States · verified Jan 2026
- pilotPlus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck at Spain →Western Europe · verified Jan 2026
- operationalPlus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck at United States →United States · verified Jan 2026
- operationalPlus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck at United States →United States · verified Jan 2026
- pilotPlus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck at Texas →Southwest · verified Nov 2025
- endedPlusDrive at Germany →Western Europe · verified Nov 2023
View the full Plus deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (4)
- David Liu Co-founder & CEO, founderIR-verified
- Shawn Kerrigan Co-Founder and COOsecondary-verified
- Hao Zheng Co-founder & CTOIR-verified
- Tim Daly Co-Founder and Chief Architectsecondary-verified
Founders (9)
- Hao Zhengcofounderfounded 2016-01-01
- Tim Dalycofounderfounded 2016-01-01
- Shawn Kerrigancofounderfounded 2016-01-01
- David Liucofounderfounded 2016-01-01
- Tim Dalycofounder
- David Liucofounder
- David Liucofounder
- Shawn Kerrigancofounder
- Hao Zhengcofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Plus.
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 →
Operator customers (1)
- Plus8 deployments
Brains developed (1)
- Plus SuperDrivefoundation-model · pilot
Recent coverage
Plus in third-party press
Peers
93 peers across 2 segments. Every Plus competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
av(88)
57 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 4969.122215850638) · leader Waymo at 6990%
- Aurora Innovationdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- AutoXdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Avridedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Baidudirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Bot Autodirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Caterpillardirect competitor(inferred)strong
autonomous vehicle(5)
- Aurora Innovationdirect competitor(reported)strong
- Embark Trucksdirect competitor(reported)strong
- Kodiak AIdirect competitor(reported)strong
- Einrideadjacent competitor(reported)moderate
- Gatikadjacent competitor(reported)moderate
Mentioned on (14+)
Registry pages whose text names Plus.
Robots and products (2)
Deployments (1)
People (9)
Earl Adams Jr., Bryant Park, David Liu, Christian Levin, Tim Daly, Shawn Kerrigan, Hao Zheng, David Liu, Harris Wang
About 423 more pages name Plus and were not checked here.
Supplied by (2)
Compute / semiconductor
Sensors
- Luminar Technologiesvia Plus SuperDrive Autonomous TruckLuminar mid-to-long range lidar (exclusive for PlusDrive factory-installed system)supplies
Inbound supply edges feeding this company directly or via the models it owns. Same source bar as the outbound view (verified against at least two strong sources).
Financial state
- Total funding
- $740.0M
- Employees
- 300
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Plus has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- International Truck x PlusAI x NVIDIA2025-10-28with International Truckoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1International Truck1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- International Truck x PlusAI x NVIDIAwithInternational Trucktechnology2025-10-28operating
Funding rounds (6)
Plus’s 4 disclosed rounds, $740M in total, oldest to newest.
- Strategic Round2021-06-01
- Series B2021-05-01
$220M(reported) · $3.3B post
Investors: Guotai Junan International (lead), Wanxiang International Investment, SAIC Capital, Full Truck Alliance, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, GSR Ventures
- Series C Extension2021-03-01
$220M(reported)
Investors: FountainVest Partners (lead), ClearVue Partners (co_lead), Quanta Computer, Millennium Technology Value Partners, Sequoia Capital China
- Series C2020-11-01
$100M(reported)
- Series B2019-08-01
$200M(reported)
- Series A2018-11-01
Regulatory filings (1)
- CA-DMV-TEST-PLUSother · othergranted2023-01-01
Patent estate (4)
- US10535191B2usptograntedgranted 2019-12-17assignee
- US20210197848A1usptopendingassignee
- US11702011B1usptograntedgranted 2023-07-25assignee
- US20230298318A1usptopendingassignee
Timeline
Every recorded move in Plus’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipInternational Truck x PlusAI x NVIDIA
2025-10-28International and PlusAI accelerating Level 4 autonomous truck development powered by NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperion platform. Fleet trial on I-35 corridor operated by Ryder.
Funding roundStrategic Round funding round
2021-06-01Strategic Round
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2021-05-01Series B raising $220000000
Funding roundSeries C Extension funding round
2021-03-01Series C Extension raising $220000000
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2020-11-01Series C raising $100000000
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2019-08-01Series B raising $200000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2018-11-01Series A
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Deployment recordedAug 10, 2026
Plus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck at I-35 Freight Corridor, Texas, USA
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
How Plus Is Bringing Self-Driving Trucks to the Market
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 4, 2026
Plus SuperDrive driverless Level 4 highway demo
- Deployment recordedMar 31, 2026
Plus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck at I-35 Freight Corridor, Texas, USA
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
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Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
- 1
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The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Plus.Peer companies
- Tesla4 models
- Volvo Autonomous Solutions4 models
- Waymo4 models
- Aurora Innovation3 models
- Caterpillar2 models
- DAF Trucks2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Plus from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/plus-ai.md
- RSS feed: /companies/plus-ai/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/a1510698-0cc5-4f5d-81de-3fbf81d29d13
- Revision history: /companies/plus-ai/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Tesla4 models
- Volvo Autonomous Solutions4 models
- Waymo4 models
- Aurora Innovation3 models
- Caterpillar2 models
- DAF Trucks2 models
Video
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Heat Index
Category contender77/100
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
Plus draws attention at the 96th percentile but verifies reality at the 81st percentile among truck robots. Hype Gap +14.8, 17th widest among truck robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 9 verified deployments. Broad public reach with 2.7M video views. Thin IP estate relative to category peers.
Signal flags
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: Oct 20, 2026