Autonomy · San Francisco, California · Founded 2023 · Raised $7.8M · Formation stage
Tera AI
Review noteSeed-stage camera-only, GPS-denied navigation software for air, ground and sea vehicles, founded 2023 by ex-Google X ML lead Tony Zhang; $7.8M seed from Felicis and Inovia with Naval Ravikant, covered by TechCrunch in March 2025, so it is already on VC radar. Source ↗
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13#153 · ▼10 in 7d
1 of 8 families
Why now
Score
Momentum18
Regulatory
Thesis fit98
× 0.99
Matched on autonomous, autonomous vessel, autonomy, fixed-wing, fusion
Earliness95
× 0.97
Already visible: company age
Team–
× 0.85
No people identified yet
18 × 0.99 × 0.97 × 0.85 × 0.85 one family only = 13