ZOOX

ZOOX
NIST Sector	Transportation
GICS Industrial	Transportation
Smart Tag(s)
Business type	Private
Year Founded	2014
Founder(s)	Tim Kentley-Klay Jesse Levinson
City, State	Foster City CA
Country	United States
Region Served	Worldwide
Executives	Aicha Evans
Revenue	$35 m€ 30.8 <br />£ 25.9 <br />CA$ 44.45 <br />CNY 221.55 <br />KRW 42.891 <br />
Number of employees	1901
Sponsorship Level	Of Interest

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Zoox was founded to make personal transportation safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable—for everyone.

		ZOOX Deploying Purpose-Built Robotaxi on Open Public Roads
		Autonomous Mobility-as-a-Service company, Zoox, today announced it completed a key milestone: deploying the world’s first purpose-built robotaxi on open public roads with passengers. On February 11, 2023, Zoox conducted the first run of its employee shuttle service in Foster City, California, marking the first time in history a purpose-built autonomous robotaxi without traditional driving controls carried passengers on open public roads.

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In December 2018, Zoox became the first company to gain approval for providing self-driving transport services to the public in California. By July 2018, according to Bloomberg, Zoox had raised $800 million in venture capital, at a valuation of $3.2 billion. Draper Fisher Jurvetson is an investor in the company. In September 2020, Zoox became the fourth company in the State of California to receive permit to test driverless automobiles on public roads. On December 14, 2020, Zoox showcased a fully autonomous, all-electric, purpose-built vehicle that is capable of driving up to 75 mph.

On March 20, 2019, Tesla, Inc. filed a lawsuit against Zoox and several now-former Tesla employees (who left Tesla for employment at Zoox) alleging theft of Tesla's proprietary information and trade secrets related to warehousing, shipping, and logistics in late 2018 and early 2019. The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed sum in April 2020 where Zoox "acknowledged that certain of its new hires from Tesla were in possession of Tesla documents pertaining to shipping, receiving, and warehouse procedures when they joined Zoox's logistics team".

Zoox autonomous vehicle at CVPR 2022. In July 2022, Zoox became the first purpose-built, fully autonomous, all-electric passenger vehicle that was certified to the existing Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) without the need for regulatory changes or exemption requests