Japan's TURING Secures $79 Million for Robotaxi Software
Japanese autonomous driving startup TURING has announced $79 million in extended Series A funding, bringing the total to $174 million. The company aims to launch its Robotaxi software by 2028, utilizing AMD hardware.
Japanese autonomous driving technology startup TURING announced on Tuesday it has completed a $79 million extension to its Series A funding round, bringing the total raised in Series A to $174 million. The extension includes a $36 million credit facility from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and $43 million in equity financing from investors including AMD Ventures, Mitsubishi Corporation, and Supermicro.
TURING conducted its first 30-minute autonomous driving test in the Tokyo suburbs in 2025 and has since repeated trials on multiple congested road sections in Japan. The company's stated goal is to bring its Robotaxi-ready software to the consumer market as early as 2028.
The company's autonomous driving software stack will operate on AMD hardware. TURING stated this decision is to maintain price competitiveness in the capital-intensive autonomous driving sector. Previously, the company relied on NVIDIA chips for AI training and inference, but approximately 10% of its training workload has now been migrated to AMD GPUs.