Applied intuition raises $ 600 million because it pays more to defense

Its self -ruling software software company closed A financing round of the F 600 million dollar series, which prompted its evaluation to $ 15 billion.

The tour was led by Blackrock and Kleiner Perkins funds, and included new investments from the Investment Authority in Qatar, the investment board in Abu Dhabi, Greycroft, and more. The current investors at General Catalyst, Lux, Elad Gil and Mary Meeker’s Growth Bond also participated.

The Applied Insuition increases just one year after the completion of the E -250 million chain, which put the company with a value of $ 6 billion. The company manufactures programs that help companies and government agencies to develop solutions to self -government vehicles. It includes simulation and data management programs.

“When they think,” I have this program or the problem of artificial intelligence, “We generally want to think about us,” said Qasar Younis CEO at Techcrunch last year. “We also want to be that first call.”

Applied intuition works with most major car manufacturers, as well as independent vehicle companies such as Gatik and Kodiak.

The company has also increasingly pushed the defense area. In its news message that announces the financing round, the Applied Lainition that the US military requested to help bring it Independent technology for some of their cars. The company was able to take a pedestrian from “naked” to the autonomy in only 10 days. This included the development of “a pedal robot to assemble the pedal to transform the wheel physically and press the pedal and brakes.”