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Turing

mobility · Kashiwa, JP · turing-motors.com

Develops end-to-end camera-based autonomous driving systems powered by generative AI.

Founders

Issei Yamamoto (Japan · ♂) — Famous as the creator of Ponanza, the first AI to beat a shogi title holder, he co-founded Turing in 2021 to bring fully self-driving AI cars to Japan under the vision 'We Overtake Tesla.'
Shunsuke Aoki (Japan · ♂) — He earned a PhD researching autonomous driving at Carnegie Mellon, then co-founded Turing as CTO to apply deep-learning AI to a homegrown Japanese self-driving car.

Date	Round	Amount
Jul 2026	Series A Turing completed a Series A round raising 27.89 billion yen for fully autonomous driving development, adding a 12.62 billion yen extension of equity and loans to its November 2025 first close.	$180M
Dec 2024	Seed Turing raised an additional 1.02B yen in a pre-Series A extension from JIC Venture Growth Investments, JR West Innovations and others, bringing the round total to 5.56B yen.	$6.7M
Jan 2022	Series D Plus Turing, a US remote-developer hiring platform, raised a US$87M Series D led by WestBridge Capital, reaching unicorn status.	$87M

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