Aurora, which employs over 200 at offices in Pittsburgh, Palo Alto and San Francisco, is led by CEO Chris Urmson who was one of the pioneers in the autonomous field and led a project set up by Google until around the time it was spun off as Waymo.
A row of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles 2017 Chrysler Pacifica minivan vehicles are displayed for sale at a car dealership in Moline, Illinois, on July 1, 2017.Automobiles, FCA US, is forming a partnership with autonomous vehicle start-up Aurora which already has linked up with retail giant Amazon.
Neither Aurora nor FCA US would reveal financial details of their new partnership, but the start-up got fresh funding of more than $530 million earlier this year, with Amazon a leader in the Series B funding round. The retail giant has made several strategic investments over the past year, several focusing on autonomous technology, another giving it a stake in Rivian, an electric vehicle start-up based in suburban Detroit.
The connection to Aurora could give FCA a direct connection to Amazon. But, in the strange-bedfellows world of high-tech transportation, Amazon's stake in Rivian also connects it to Ford Motor Co. which invested $500 million in that start-up in April.
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