# Inceptio Technology

> Inceptio Technology is a developer of full-stack autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks, headquartered in Shanghai with an R&D center in Fremont/Santa Clara, California. Founded in 2018 by Julian Ma, it works with truck OEMs to mass-produce Level 3 highway-capable trucks and operates one of the largest real-world autonomous freight fleets in the world. Its proprietary XUANYUAN and T-NOA systems power more than 4,000 trucks that have logged over 400 million kilometers of commercial operation for customers including JD Logistics, Nestle, Budweiser and Deppon Express, as it charts a data-driven roadmap toward scalable Level 4 autonomy.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Shanghai, China (U.S. R&D center in Fremont / Santa Clara, California)
- **Founders:** Julian Ma (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~500 employees
- **Products:** XUANYUAN Autonomous Driving System, Inceptio T-NOA, Taurus Domain Controller, L3 Autonomous Heavy-Duty Trucks
- **Notable:** Raised $678M across four disclosed rounds from investors including CATL, Sequoia China, JD Logistics and Meituan., Enabled the industry's first serial production of L3 autonomous heavy-duty trucks with OEM partners., Grew to 4,000+ commercial autonomous trucks in operation across China.

## Products & services

- **XUANYUAN Autonomous Driving System** — Proprietary, production-oriented full-stack autonomous driving platform for heavy-duty trucks, combining perception algorithms, Ultra Long Range Sensing (ULRS) and High Precision Lateral Sensing (HPLS) for highway autonomy.
- **Inceptio T-NOA** — Commercial Navigate-on-Autopilot driving system deployed across the fleet, delivering highway L2+/L3 autonomy with autonomous driving covering 95-99% of total mileage.
- **Taurus Domain Controller** — Next-generation autonomous driving control unit/compute platform for trucks, with mass production targeted around 2026.
- **L3 Autonomous Heavy-Duty Trucks** — Mass-produced Level 3 highway trucks co-developed with OEM partners Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle and China National Heavy Duty Truck Group (Sinotruk).

## Achievements

- Raised $678M across four disclosed rounds from investors including CATL, Sequoia China, JD Logistics and Meituan.
- Enabled the industry's first serial production of L3 autonomous heavy-duty trucks with OEM partners.
- Grew to 4,000+ commercial autonomous trucks in operation across China.
- Surpassed 100M km (2024) and later 400M+ km of safe autonomous commercial operations.
- Received a Level 4 driverless truck testing permit in 2022 and completed early L4 road tests.
- Reports 3-7% fuel efficiency gains, ~6,000 liters diesel and 15.8 tons CO2 saved per truck per year.
- Presented a scalable L4 commercial roadmap at the Next Truck 2025 conference in Berlin.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Outlined a commercial roadmap for scalable Level 4 autonomous trucks at the Next Truck 2025 conference in Berlin; targets 5B+ km of real-world data by mid-2028.
- **2024-04** — Inceptio-powered autonomous trucks surpassed 100 million kilometers of safe commercial operations.
- **2023** — Fleet grew past 4,000 L2+/L3 trucks with customers including JD Logistics, Nestle, Budweiser and Deppon Express.
- **2022-02** — Closed a $188M Series B+ round led by Sequoia Capital China and Legend Capital.

## Links

- Website: https://inceptio.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inceptio-technology
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/inceptiotech
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InceptioTechnology

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Last updated: 2026-07-14