Minus Zero is India's first startup building affordable fully autonomous vehicles in the country, capable of fully driverless maneuvers in world's toughest unstructured and disorganized traffic scenarios, powered by proprietary nature-inspired AI that is less dependent on extensive data & costly sensor suite (like LIDAR's, etc.).
Location: India, Karnataka, Bengaluru
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $1.7M
Founded date: 2020
Founders name: Gursimran Kalra; Arsh Kalhotra
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 23.01.2023 | JITO Angel... | jitojiif.c... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 25.05.2022 | Seed | $1.7M | Chiratae V... |
Persons 7
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| - | Suraj | Ghosh | Vice Presi... | linkedin.c... | - | s***j@minu... | - |
| - | Aayush | Kumar | Founders' ... | linkedin.c... | - | a****h@min... | - |
| - | Gursimran | Kalra | Co-Founder... | linkedin.c... | - | g*******n@... | - |
| - | Arsh | Kalhotra | Co-Founder... | linkedin.c... | - | c*o@minusz... | - |
| - | Gagandeep | Reehal | - | linkedin.c... | - | c*****s@mi... | - |
| - | Krishna Te... | Jayanthi | Assistant ... | linkedin.c... | - | k*****a@mi... | - |
| - | Piyush | T. | System Sof... | linkedin.c... | - | p****h@min... | - |
Mentions in press and media 3
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| 25.05.2022 | Self-driving vehicle startup Minus Zero raises USD 1.7 million in Seed Funding | Bangalore, India-based self-driving vehicle startup Minus Zero raised USD 1.7 million in seed funding. The round took place on May 23, 2022. Chiratae Ventures led the financing for Minus Zero. Meanwhile, JITO Angel Network and senior execut... |
| 23.05.2022 | Minus Zero raises $1.7 m to bring driverless cars to Indian roads | M Self-driving vehicle start-up, Minus Zero has raised $1.7 million from Chiratae Ventures, JITO Angel Network, senior executives from NVIDIA and Lyft, among others. The funding will be primarily utilised for building an extensive autonomou... |
| 23.05.2022 | Indian autonomous-vehicle maker drives away with $1.7 million raise | Artificial IntelligenceNewsTransportation Kul Bhushan · 23 May 2022 · 2 min readIndian autonomous-vehicle maker drives away with $1.7 million raise Minus Zero, an India-based maker of self-driving vehicles, has raised US$1.7 million in a se... |