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Jur van den Berg

Co-founder and CTO of Ike, an autonomous trucking startup. Born 1981 in Groningen, Netherlands. PhD from Utrecht University under Mark Overmars in computational geometry. Previously researched at UC Berkeley, University of Utah, and UNC Chapel Hill. Joined Waabi as VP of Autonomy after Ike was acquired by Nuro in 2021.

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Ikeverified→
Founder
Ike was a self-driving truck startup founded by former Uber autonomous trucking engineers (from Otto).
Series A · $52M
Waabiverified→
Former VP of Autonomy
Canadian autonomous-trucking company (founded 2021 by Raquel Urtasun, former [Uber atg](/companies/uber-atg) chief scientist and University of Toronto professor
Series C · $750M2 verified deployments · Waabi Driver Autonomous Truck at Dallas-San Antonio Corridor, Texas, USA →1 model

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Ikecofounderno longer at company

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Alden Woodrow co-founded Ike
Nancy Sun co-founded Ike

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Ike Co-founder & CTO
Waabi VP of Autonomy2021-06-15 to ?Secondary-verified

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