The goal of WeRide has always been to make smart mobility accessible to everyone. In order to achieve this goal, we build a team with talents and passion, and form partnerships with the top players in the ecosystem. We always put safety as our top priority to make every self-driving trip you take with WeRide to be trustworthy.

This spirit has allowed us to develop leading technologies in autonomous driving, as well as build the most reliable RoboTaxi service for the future.

WeRide is a smart mobility company in China that creates leading L4 autonomous driving technologies. We have committed ourselves to new mobility services that will be accessible and beneficial to everyone. WeRide is China’s first ever 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 200 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.

Established in 2017, WeRide is headquartered in Guangzhou, China, and maintains R&D and operation centers in Beijing and Anqing, as well as Silicon Valley in the USA.

Our Series A funding round was led by Alliance RNM (the Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi) as a strategic lead investor, along with SenseTime, ABC International, Hanfor Capital, Atop Capital, Johnson Electric, He Xiaopeng, IDInvest Capital, OceanIQ Capital and others. Our pre-A round lead investor Qiming Venture Partners also participated in this round. Morgan Stanley was WeRide’s sole financial advisor.

Our pre-A fundraising round reached $57M, attracting investment from Qiming Venture Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Nvidia GPU Ventures and others.

WeRide will be deploying a large fleet of autonomous vehicles in 2019. Our pre-commercialized trials will be conducted in Guangzhou and Anqing together with supports from global preeminent partners.

WeRide aims to deploy autonomous vehicle operations in 2020. We strive to deliver reliable commercial RoboTaxi service and to help grow the autonomous driving industry.