Minus Zero develops autonomous vehicle software and four-wheeled shuttle vehicles designed to operate as robotaxis rather than sell vehicles. The company emphasizes an AI-first approach that relies on camera-based vision—including demonstrations using a single monocular camera—and algorithms intended to require less compute and data. It aims to build a scalable AV platform that can expand to new geographies, use-cases, and vehicle platforms with minimal changes. Safety is described as the foremost priority, and the firm says it has multiple patents in the pipeline. Minus Zero was founded in 2021 while the founders were undergraduates and demonstrated a prototype on Indian roads in April 2021. The startup raised $1.7 million to fund an extensive autonomous vehicle R&D infrastructure and to aggressively expand the team, and it is targeting a public launch of its first autonomous use-case in late 2022 to early 2023.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

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Equity

Latest activity

May 2022