Trucks VC counts 81 new autonomous vehicle startups in 2026, more than any year of the first AV boom
Seed investor Trucks VC says 81 new AV startups have come to it so far in 2026, a record since it was founded in 2015, and nearly all build on foundation models. The models have made a first deployment cheap; a national fleet still is not.
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