Driver announced it emerged from stealth mode and unveiled its AI-based platform that instantly decodes technology and automates the creation of interactive documentation. Driver also announced $8 million in seed funding, led by GV (Google Ventures), with participation from Y Combinator and over a dozen early-stage and angel investors.
Driver’s platform dramatically reduces teams’ time to understand, document, and deliver technology, enabling significantly faster engineer onboarding and product time-to-market. This seed funding round will be used to advance the significant momentum Driver has generated in just one year of operation. The company plans to expand the engineering team, aggressively build out the product roadmap, and accelerate commercialization.
Revealed at Embedded World (Booth 2204), Driver’s platform generates customer-facing technical support documentation 50 percent faster, freeing up half of engineers’ workday. And automating source code documentation takes two hours with Driver, compared to the three months it typically takes engineers. Team onboarding to projects is twice as fast, and all team members can instantly understand complex technology.
Driver’s interactive platform benefits the semiconductor industry dramatically. Semiconductor companies produce thousand-page manuals, guides, and source code for customers.
These customers often invest millions of dollars and several months in engineer onboarding to implement their products and bring them to market. Driver streamlines these processes by helping semiconductor companies quickly decode technology and automate complex documentation. This results in substantial time and cost savings, fewer support issues, and happier customers.
Driver’s top platform features include:
1.) Transforms lengthy and complex manuals into clear, concise explanations.
2.) Syncs codebases to keep up-to-date documentation and to understand how a codebase is evolving in real time. Connect directly from GitHub or other source code management tools.
3.) Works for any programming language, with specialized content for common languages and their nuances.
4.) Unified search across assets, content, and contextual information.
5.) Create reusable templates with defined sections and instructions for how Driver should complete the document.
6.) State-of-the-art encryption and advanced identity management.
KEY QUOTES:
“By providing a significantly faster, user-tailored understanding of complex technology, we’re empowering teams to quickly access mission-critical information, reduce errors, and accelerate product time-to-market. Driver is the first solution to create clear, compelling explanations that make technology more accessible for customers and partners while ensuring documentation is drafted quickly and stays consistently up-to-date.”
-Adam Tilton, Co-founder and CEO at Driver
“We invested in Driver early given our excitement about the founders and the novel use cases of generative AI they are addressing with a large untapped market opportunity. The founders have an incredible track record of building and bring extensive experience and hard-earned lessons from working with complex codebases. We believe Driver is a game changer for any team that needs to document complicated technology quickly and ensure it can be understood by all constituents.”
-Luna Schmid, Partner at GV
“UICO’s journey to creating full-touch solutions required us to overcome the challenges of navigating complex systems. As we grew, we realized we needed robust technical documentation. Driver has accelerated our understanding of these systems, allowing us to more quickly and successfully port our software to new platforms, speeding time to market and onboarding new engineers.”
-Basman Dahleh, CTO at UICO
