San Jose – March 13, 2019 – WCP’s Managing Partner & Managing Director, Rudy Burger, spoke today at the Embedded Vision Alliance Vision Industry and Technology Forum. His presentation, entitled “What’s Changing in Autonomous Vehicle Investments Worldwide – and Why”, covers the following:
- Sector investment trends
- Geographic investment trends
- Venture vs. corporate investment trends
- Massive growth of $$ into the autonomous vehicles sector (still no revenue)
- Trends of no of new companies being started each year
- The decrease in the number of new AV/ADAS companies being formed in 2018,with the majority of investment going into later stage rounds for more mature companies.
- Trends of average round size by year
- AI companies partnering with OEMs (and massive amounts of $$ being invested)
- LiDAR bubble
- Semiconductor AI processors
- China
To read Rudy’s full presentation please click here.
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