# Verne: company

Canonical ID: `c07de3f5-661e-49d7-b0d5-b41184d319cd`

## Key facts

- **Founder:** Mate Rimac (Rimac Group CEO, also Bugatti CEO)
- **CEO:** Marko Pejkovic
- **Chief Design Officer:** Adriano Mudri (designer of Rimac Nevera)
- **Autonomous partner:** Pony.ai (7th-gen system)
- **Ride-hailing partner:** Uber
- **Launch date:** April 8, 2026 (Europe's first commercial robotaxi service)

- **Slug:** verne
- **Founded:** 2019
- **HQ:** Zagreb, Croatia

## Models

- [Verne Robotaxi](/models/verne-robotaxi.md) (av) (id: `071ba53d-6682-4134-8e80-9c3090f0705e`)

## Current leadership (2)

- [Mate Rimac](/people/mate-rimac.md) Founder (_reported, not verified_)
- [Marko Pejkovic](/people/marko-pejkovic.md) CEO (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (1)

- [Mate Rimac](/people/mate-rimac.md) (cofounder)

## Partnerships (2)

- [Verne x Pony.ai Robotaxi](/partnerships/verne-x-pony-ai-robotaxi.md) with Pony AI _technology_
- [Verne x Pony.ai x Uber](/partnerships/verne-x-pony-ai-x-uber.md) with Pony AI, Uber _deployment_

## Supplies to

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## Sources (1)

1. https://www.letsverne.com/news-grid/verne-launches-europe%E2%80%99s-first-commercial-robotaxi-service.

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