Companies founded by Cruise alumni, also known as the "Cruise Mafia".
Sources: LinkedIn, Crunchbase, GitHub, official websites, etc.
- Founded: 2020, in San Francisco
- Cruise alumni: Peter Gao (Co-founder and CEO), Quinn Johnson (Co-founder)
- Financing history:
- 2020/8: Seed (YC S20)
- 2021/2: Seed (Sequoia, Kyle Vogt, etc.)
- Tagline: The Platform For ML Data Operations. Aquarium helps teams streamline the process of finding issues, validating fixes, and adding data for their machine learning datasets.
- Founded: 2021, in San Francisco
- Cruise alumni: Adrian Macneil (Co-Founder and CEO), Roman Shtylman (Co-Founder)
- Financing history:
- 2022/1: Seed (Amplify Partners)
- 2022/10: Series A (Eclipse Ventures, Amplify Partners, Kyle Vogt)
- Tagline: The leading observability platform for robotics developers. Foxglove brings advanced data infrastructure and visualization to any robotics framework, supercharging your development and debugging.
- Founded: 2021, in San Francisco
- Cruise alumni: Brian Calvert (Co-Founder)
- Financing history:
- 2022/5: Pre-Seed (Google Ventures, NEA, etc.)
- Tagline: Simplify your AI strategy. Graft is a modern AI platform, supporting the full production lifecycle of AI from data ingestion through deployment and monitoring. No infrastructure or ML skills required.
- Founded: 2022, in San Francisco
- Cruise alumni: Lei Xu (Co-Founder and CTO), Jai Chopra (Head of Product)
- Financing history:
- 2022: Seed (YC W22)
- Tagline: Developer-friendly, serverless vector database for AI applications. LanceDB is an open-source database for vector-search built with persistent storage, which greatly simplifies retrevial, filtering and management of embeddings.
- Founded: 2020, in San Carlos, CA
- Cruise alumni: Jason Wilson (Co-Founder and CTO), Kevin Chu (Engineer)
- Financing history:
- 2021: Seed (Operator Partners, Founders Fund, Lux Capital)
- Tagline: Pain and uncertainty are lousy. Receiving care shouldn't be.
- Founded: 2022, in San Francisco
- Cruise alumni: Emmanuel Turlay (Founder and CEO), Joshua Bauer (Founding Engineer), Tudor Scurtu (Founding Engineer)
- Financing history:
- 2022/11: Seed (Race Capital, YC S22, Oliver Cameron, etc.)
- Tagline: The open-source Continuous Machine Learning Platform. End-to-end Python pipelines from your laptop to your cloud cluster in minutes. Tracked, reproducible, visualized.
- Founded: 2021, in Huntsville, AL
- Cruise alumni: Divya Thakur (Co-Founder), Logan Anderson (Co-Founder)
- Financing history:
- 2022/5: Pre-Seed
- Tagline: The Future Of Lawn Care. Don't Mow Your Lawn. Let our team of humans and robots provide your yard with the care it deserves.
Created and maintained by James Luo, who co-founded and led the Machine Learning Platform team at Cruise from 2018 to 2021.