Our mission
Improving life in our cities
We’re driven to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about.
Our journey
In September 2013, Kyle Vogt founded Cruise in San Francisco to fulfill a childhood dream of making self-driving cars a reality. Dan Kan joined Cruise as a co-founder in early 2014.
2013
Kyle Vogt founds Cruise in San Francisco to fulfill a childhood dream of making self-driving cars a reality.
2014
Dan Kan joins Cruise as a co-founder. Cruise develops a highway autopilot retrofitted to a car — the first step towards a fully self-driving vehicle.
2016
General Motors acquires Cruise, bringing more than a century’s experience designing and manufacturing vehicles to the effort.
2017
Cruise opens our AV fleet to employees as a rideshare network.
2018
Cruise receives a $3.35B investment commitment from GM and SoftBank.
Honda invests $750M and commits $2B to developing a new autonomous vehicle, the Origin.
Cruise rapidly scales to 1,000+ employees.
2019
T. Rowe Price leads a $1.15B investment round.
Cruise opens an office in the Seattle, Washington area.
2020
Cruise reveals the Origin and repurposes our AV fleet to deliver meals to vulnerable San Franciscans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cruise partners with Walmart on a self-driving delivery pilot in AZ and takes our first driverless ride on the streets of San Francisco.
2021
Microsoft, GM, Honda, Walmart, and institutional investors — in a combined new equity investment of $2.75B — bring Cruise's valuation to over $30B.
Cruise has delivered more than a million meals in partnership with the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank and SF New Deal.
In early November, Kyle takes the first fully driverless ride in a major U.S. city in a Cruise AV named Sourdough.
2022
In late January, Cruise opens its fully driverless service to public riders in San Francisco.
Our partners
Cruise has received $10 billion from well-respected companies and investors including GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart, increasing the company's valuation 30x since its founding.
