As autonomous vehicles advance, Europe sets itself apart by prioritizing high performance, explainability, safety, and legal compliance. MOTOR Ai is addressing these needs with its recently announced $20 million seed funding round, aimed at deploying its certified, neuroscience-driven technology on German public roads. This funding, led by Segenia Capital and eCAPITAL, will support efforts to achieve type approval for autonomous vehicles.
MOTOR Ai, the only German company of its kind, has developed Level 4 autonomous driving intelligence that reasons through data for structured, transparent decision-making. Unlike other providers that rely on extensive data collection and opaque “black-box” models, MOTOR Ai focuses on creating a highly explainable system that meets stringent European and international safety standards, including UNECE and ISO (ASIL-D) approval.
This year, vehicles equipped with MOTOR Ai’s system will begin operations in several German districts, initially supervised by an onboard safety driver, who will be phased out by 2026. These deployments comply with legal requirements.
Since 2017, MOTOR Ai has built its entire autonomy stack in-house from Berlin, working closely with certification authorities. The company aims to establish a certified, explainable driving system that fosters safe and transparent autonomy, with type approval expected by 2026.
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“Our solution meets key requirements for transparency and traceability of autonomous driving decisions, as required by authorities. That clearly distinguishes us from US providers and at the same time optimally complies with European regulatory requirements.”
“We don’t think the future of autonomy in Europe should be a mystery. It should be measurable, inspectable, and designed to earn public trust. That’s what we’ve been building, and now we’re ready to scale it.”
MOTOR Ai’s CEO and Co-Founder Roy Uhlmann
“In a regulated environment like Europe, trust and compliance are non-negotiable. MOTOR Ai has built a solution that is not only technologically differentiated but fundamentally aligned with how Europe thinks about infrastructure and public safety. This is how autonomy will scale in future.”
Michael Janßen, General Partner, Segenia Capital
“This ‘Made in Germany’ in-house development reduces inter-dependencies while strengthening Europe’s ability to operate in critical innovative technology.”
Lucas Merle, Principal at eCAPITAL
