Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition is an Autonomy Software & Simulation company founded in 2017 and based in Mountain View, United States. It has raised $1.5B in total funding, most recently a Series F in 2025 at a $15B valuation.
Founded in 2017 by Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig, Applied Intuition builds the simulation, validation, and data-management toolchain that automotive OEMs and autonomy developers use to develop, test, and certify ADAS and self-driving systems, alongside its own end-to-end autonomy stack. The company raised a $600M Series F at a $15B valuation in 2025 — roughly $400M of which was secondary, providing liquidity to early employees and investors — bringing total funding to roughly $1.5B. Its software lets engineering teams generate scenarios, run large-scale simulation, and mine real-world sensor data to validate autonomy at scale — making it foundational infrastructure for the AV industry as well as a dual-use player in defense autonomy.
The leading independent simulation-and-validation toolchain for autonomous vehicles, used across automotive OEMs and AV programs to test and certify self-driving systems at scale.
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