Outrider
About
About Outrider
Outrider automates the repetitive movement of semi-trailers between parking rows and dock doors. Its system combines electric yard tractors with lidar, cameras and autonomous-driving software, while TrailerConnect robotically attaches and removes the trailer’s brake and electrical lines without requiring modifications to the trailer. The vehicle can identify, hitch, move, back and place trailers in mixed yard environments.
Management software receives move requests from yard or transport systems, assigns vehicles and maintains a live trailer inventory. Site infrastructure, charging and remote operational support complete the deployment, while deep-learning perception and path planning adapt to changing trailers, workers and yard traffic. Outrider has moved beyond pilot-only operation through customer deployments including Georgia-Pacific distribution yards.
Articles
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Ouster
Inbound - Perception - Ouster supplies digital lidar integrated in Outrider autonomous yard trucks
Source - NVIDIA
Inbound - Compute & Control - Outrider's next-generation autonomy kit uses NVIDIA DRIVE compute architecture
Source - YMX Logistics
Outbound - Autonomous Vehicles - Outrider’s five-year agreement provides the Outrider System for YMX-financed and operated autonomous yard fleets
Source
Funding
- 2024-10-24 - Series D - $62M - Outrider closes $62M Series D for autonomous yard operations
Outrider closed a $62 million Series D round to scale its autonomous yard-operations platform. - source: outrider.ai
- 2023-01-19 - Series C - $73M - Outrider raises $73M Series C
Outrider closed a Series C led by FM Capital to expand deployment of its autonomous distribution-yard platform. - source: outrider.ai
Investors
- Koch Disruptive Technologies - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-01-19 - latest 2024-10-24
- New Enterprise Associates - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-01-19 - latest 2024-10-24
- Abu Dhabi Investment Authority subsidiary - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-01-19
- B37 Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-01-19
- FM Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-01-19
- Lineage Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-01-19
- NVentures - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2023-01-19
- Presidio Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-01-19
- ROBO Global Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-01-19
Team
- Andrew Smith - Founder and CEO
Timeline
Events
- 2026-10-01 - Partnership - Outrider and YMX sign five-year autonomous-yard operating agreement
YMX will lead implementations and on-site operations; Outrider will provide remote monitoring and technical support. Initial deployments are planned for 2026 across food and beverage, retail, consumer packaged goods and automotive customers. The offering combines the Outrider System with YMX OS and capacity-based pricing for trailer-spotting operations.
Source - 2025-11-19 - Product Launch - Outrider launches enterprise support services for driverless yard operations
The services are designed to support commercial rollout of the Outrider System in 2026. Outrider positioned the offering around uptime, performance and ROI for Fortune 500 logistics hub customers.
Source - 2024-10-24 - Funding - Outrider closes $62M Series D for autonomous yard operations
Koch Disruptive Technologies and New Enterprise Associates led the oversubscribed Series D. Outrider said the funding would support commercial scaling with Fortune 500 logistics customers. The company planned to scale to hundreds of systems, extend its safety and autonomy platform, and protect its patented technology.
Source - 2023-01-19 - Funding - Outrider raises $73M Series C
New investors included a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and NVentures, while Koch Disruptive Technologies and New Enterprise Associates also participated. The financing supports Outrider's autonomy and safety roadmap, hiring, and work with electric yard-truck manufacturers. Outrider said the capital would help scale deployments toward hundreds of autonomous yard trucks at customer sites.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- YMX Logistics
Partner - Outrider and YMX signed a non-exclusive five-year agreement for YMX to finance, deploy and operate autonomous yard-truck fleets.
Context
Comparable profiles
- ISEE
stack adjacency - Autonomous Yard System Layer
Shared workflows
- YMX Logistics
workflow adjacency - Autonomous Yard Trailer Moves
- EUROGATE
workflow adjacency - Autonomous Yard Trailer Moves
Context tags
- Logistics operations - Customer Environment
- Autonomous yard truck builder - Peer Group
- Autonomous yard trailer moves - Workflow
- Autonomous yard system layer - Stack Layer