Leo Drive
About
About Leo Drive
Leo Drive packages the pieces required to turn an existing vehicle into an autonomous development or operating platform. The company combines perception sensors, onboard compute, drive-by-wire interfaces and Autoware-based software, then maps, calibrates and validates the resulting vehicle for a defined operational setting.
Its portfolio ranges from research cars and the ARGUS autonomy kit to Robione urban carriers, industrial conversions for trucks, loaders and excavators, and autonomous passenger-bus projects. The common layer is integration rather than vehicle manufacture: Leo Drive adapts an autonomy blueprint to the customer’s chassis and application, with simulation and verification used before field deployment. This positions the company between open-source autonomy software and finished vehicle programmes.
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- SBG Systems
Inbound - Navigation - Leo Drive integrates SBG Systems Ellipse-D GNSS/INS into its Autoware autonomous test vehicle
Source
Funding
- 2022-10-20 - Seed - Leo Drive secures seed investment from TIER IV
Leo Drive received an undisclosed seed investment from TIER IV to expand project capacity, grow its development team and form a product team. - source: medium.com
Investors
- TIER IV - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-10-20
Team
- Armağan Arslan - Co-Founder and CEO - Founder and chief executive
Timeline
Events
- 2024-02-28 - Facility Opening - Leo Drive establishes Netherlands presence at Automotive Campus
The Netherlands move was Leo Drive's first expansion into the European market. The company located its new presence at the Automotive Campus in Helmond. Leo Drive positioned the site closer to European partners and stakeholders for autonomous-technology collaboration.
Source - 2022-10-20 - Funding - Leo Drive secures seed investment from TIER IV
TIER IV is the only investor named in the announcement; no round amount or valuation was disclosed. Leo Drive planned to use the financing to increase project capacity and grow its project-development team. The companies had already collaborated on projects, business development and Autoware participation.
Source
Context
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Context tags
- Autonomous-driving technology stack - Stack Layer - Leo Drive integrates perception, localization, planning and control for autonomous vehicle programmes. https://www.leodrive.ai/technology
- Autoware integration - Workflow - Leo Drive identifies long-running Autoware development and collaboration with TIER IV. https://austurkiye.org.tr/blog/leo-drive-tier-iv%E2%80%99dan-tohum-yatirim-aldi
- Vehicle autonomy integration - Peer Group - The official technology page documents end-to-end vehicle autonomy integration across sensing, localization, planning and simulation. https://www.leodrive.ai/technology