Forterra

Forterra was founded in 2002 as Robotic Research by Alberto Lacaze and Karl Murphy, and rebranded to Forterra in February 2024. The company develops AutoDrive, a vehicle- and use-case-agnostic autonomy kit of integrated hardware and software that runs ground vehicles on- and off-road, including in mixed traffic and combat zones. AutoDrive is among the most widely-fielded military ground-autonomy systems, deployed across more than a dozen platforms, and Forterra is the only firm currently producing driverless vehicles for the US military, competing across all four DoD ground-autonomy programs. In June 2026 Forterra and Oshkosh Defense won a $92M US Marine Corps ROGUE-Fires Block 2 award with deliveries running through 2031, and the company was named one of three awardees on the Army's UxS Autonomy OTA. The company raised a $75M Series B in September 2024 and a $238M Series C in equity and debt in November 2025 that pushed its valuation past $1 billion, having raised hundreds of millions across its history, including a $228M round as Robotic Research in 2021.