Helm.ai is a Redwood City, California-based software company founded in 2016 that develops AI platforms for autonomous driving, targeting Level 2 through Level 4 systems. The company has raised over $102 million in funding and works with major automotive OEMs including Honda and Volkswagen. It was named in the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™.
The company's product portfolio spans two categories. On-vehicle software includes Helm.ai Vision, a perception system, and Helm.ai Driver, a full-stack autonomy solution. For offline training and validation, Helm.ai offers a suite of foundation models - GenSim-2, VidGen-2, and WorldGen-1 - designed to support model development at scale. Underpinning these products is Deep Teaching™, a proprietary unsupervised learning method that combines real-world data, deep learning, and applied mathematics to train foundation models without relying on large-scale human annotation, HD maps, or lidar data.
Helm.ai's technical work spans computer vision, perception, simulation, and full-stack autonomy software, with an emphasis on approaches that reduce the data collection and annotation overhead typically associated with autonomous driving development. The company targets both the automotive sector - particularly mass-market vehicle manufacturers - and robotics applications.