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Oct 29, 2026

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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Oct 28, 2026

Funding & Companies

Unitree and HongShan launch a program to back early-stage embodied-AI startups

Unitree and HongShan, formerly Sequoia China, launched the Shanyu program to invest in early-stage embodied-AI, robotics and hard-tech startups. HongShan supplies the capital and Unitree the engineering review, which gives the humanoid maker an early look at the companies that may build on its robots.

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