- CEO
- Don Burnette
- Full Time Employees
- 4
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management
- Address
- 1049 Terra Bella Avenue Mountain View CA United States of America 94043
- IPO Date
- Sep 25, 2025
- Business
- Kodiak AI, Inc. develops AI-powered autonomous vehicle technology and related services for commercial trucking and public sector applications; the company offers the Kodiak Driver, a unified platform that integrates advanced AI-driven software, modular hardware, and offboard services to enable driverless operations across diverse environments and vehicle types, including oversight and integration tools such as Kodiak OnTime for seamless customer operations, driver-as-a-service solutions with per-truck or per-mile recurring fees, and autonomous freight delivery services. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kodiak AI operates primarily in the United States, with a focus on high-freight-density lanes in the Sunbelt region such as the Permian Basin in West Texas, serving customers including Atlas Energy Solutions (NYSE: AESI), with whom it maintains a strategic partnership featuring a firm commitment for an initial order of 100 trucks following over 750 hours of commercial driverless operations, as well as partners like Bridgestone, C.R. England, J.B. Hunt, Martin Brower, Werner Enterprises, and the U.S. Department of Defense, which has awarded approximately $30 million for adapting the technology to Army vehicles. In 2025, the company completed a business combination with Ares Acquisition Corporation II, going public on Nasdaq under tickers KDK and KDKRW at a pre-money equity value of $2.5 billion, raising over $275 million including $145 million in PIPE financing from investors such as Soros Fund Management, ARK Investments, and Ares to accelerate commercialization, having logged over 2.6 million autonomous miles, delivered more than 7,000 loads, and achieved first publicly announced driverless semi-truck deployments for customers.