We make it faster, safer, and easier to bring autonomy to market

Industry leading companies of all sizes use Applied to comprehensively test and rapidly accelerate their autonomous vehicle development.

Growing, global presence

We’re headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Detroit, Tokyo, and Munich

Automotive x Software

Our team has software and automotive experts from the top companies in the world

Recent Company News

Creating Simulations for Autonomous Vehicles

More Manufacturers Bet on Simulation Software

Wall Street Journal

This year traditional car makers will start to catchup with Tesla

Dieser Gründer will autonomes Fahren schneller möglich machen

Handelsblatt (Germany)

What self-driving cars can’t recognize may be a matter of life and death

Washington Post

Driver's ed for robotaxis: A grueling exam looms for self-driving cars

自動運転、走行試験も「仮想」の時代に

Applied Intuition Series B

Andreessen Horowitz

Applied Intuition, Whose Software Tests Self-Driving Cars, Grabs $40 Million

Wall Street Journal

Applied Intuition raises $40 million for autonomous vehicle simulation tools

Re-investing in Applied Intuition to accelerate autonomous vehicle development

The Autonomous Vehicles Podcast with Qasar and Varun

a16z Podcast: Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future

Andreessen Horowitz

Introducing AVS, an Open Standard for Autonomous Vehicle Visualization from Uber

57 startups that will boom in 2019, according to VCs

Business Insider

Why AV sensors need simulations of their own

Independent validation will help AVs meet higher safety standards

New AV industry could benefit from the old auto supply model

Smarter Cars Podcast: Applied Intuition - Qasar Younis, Matthew Colford

Making Self-Driving Cars Safe for the World, Through Simulation

Andreessen Horowitz

Applied Intuition — Advanced simulation software for autonomous vehicles

Applied Intuition: Powering Safety in Self-Driving Cars

How Self-Driving Cars Can Get Past the Learning Permit Stage, Without Any Risk

From our Blog

Procedural Generation with Applied Intuition and Toyota

Applied Intuition Announces $40M Series B funding led by General Catalyst

Frameworks for estimating large-scale Autonomous Vehicle deployments

Inside the Process: Creating a New Brand for Applied Intuition

Introducing a New Brand for Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition Joins PAVE

Our Investors

We’re proud to be backed by some of the most prominent investors in the technology business

Marc Andreessen

Andreessen Horowitz

Co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz

General Catalyst, Director

Investor in Gusto, Snap, and Stripe

Floodgate, Founder

Seed investor in Twitter, Twitch.tv, and Okta

Lux Capital, Partner

Investor in Desktop Metal, Saildrone, and AirMap

Kleiner Perkins, General Partner

Investor in Yammer, Slack, Box, and more

AngelList, Founder

Early investor in Uber, Twitter, Stack Overflow, and more

Angel Investor & Founder

Early employee at Google, investor in Airbnb, Coinbase, Gusto, Square, and Stripe

Kleiner Perkins, Chairman

Early investor in Google, Amazon, Netscape, Intuit, Square, Bloom, and Sun Microsystems

SV Angel, Founder

Investor in Google, Facebook, PayPal, Dropbox, Airbnb, and more

Tribe Capital, Founder

Investor in Carta, Gusto, Front, Snap, and more

Liquid2, Founder

Co-founder of TalkBin (acquired by Google)

Haystack, Founder

Early investor in Carta, DoorDash, and Instacart

Angel investor & Founder

General partner at Matrix, founded Parse (acquired by Facebook)

Village Global, Founder

Founding team at Product Hunt and Rapt.fm

Christopher Fong

Xoogler.co, Founder

Co-founder of Choice Labs