WeRide.ai Funding & Investors

WeRide is a smart mobility company in China that creates leading L4 autonomous driving technologies. It is the first in China and second in the world to test fully driverless cars on open roads. We have committed ourselves to new mobility services that will be accessible and beneficial to everyone. WeRide is China’s first L4 autonomous driving technology start-up company to obtain strategic investment from a top-tier global automaker Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi. We employ a highly skilled technology team of more than 300 employees globally, 70% of whom are R&D engineers. Our core management team all has extensive domestic and international experience in technology development and business operations in both China and the USA at companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Baidu, DiDi, Cisco, and others. WeRide has been focusing on the strategic alliance among AI technology companies, car makers and mobility service platforms. WeRide RoboTaxi, a joint venture company of WeRide, Baiyun Taxi and SCI (Guangzhou) Group, has launched a robotaxi program in Guangzhou, China. The operation covers 144.65 square kilometers in the Huangpu and Guangzhou Development District, providing the locals with robotaxi services on their daily commute. It’s the first publicly accessible robotaxi service in China. Established in 2017, WeRide is headquartered in Guangzhou, China, and maintains R&D and operation centers in Beijing, Shanghai and Anqing, as well as Silicon Valley in the USA.