# Zhu Lei (朱磊): founder, White Rhino

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Co-founder & CEO of [White Rhino](/companies/white-rhino), a Beijing-based autonomous delivery vehicle company founded in April 2019. Zhu Lei is a former member of Baidu's Apollo autonomous driving team, where he worked on L4 autonomous vehicle technology before leaving to build White Rhino's unmanned delivery fleet. Under his leadership, White Rhino raised $10 million in July 2021 and aims to deploy 5,000 unmanned vehicles on public roads.

- **Nationality:** Chinese
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (1)

- [White Rhino](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/white-rhino.md) Co-founder & CEO (_reported, not verified_)

## Foundings (1)

- [White Rhino](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/white-rhino.md) founded 2019-01-01 (cofounder)

See all founders: [/founders](https://registry.deploy.report/founders.md)

## Former / Previously (1)

- [Baidu](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/baidu.md) Autonomous Driving Engineer (Apollo) (secondary-verified)

## Sources (4)

1. https://crunchbase.com
2. https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-07-19/autonomous-delivery-vehicle-specialist-white-rhino-closes-10-million-funding-round-101742296.html
3. https://www.therobotreport.com/white-rhino-raises-7m-delivery-robots/
4. https://kr-asia.com/white-rhinos-autonomous-delivery-system-gets-tune-up-with-new-investment


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