Yaak Technologies GmbH
Berlin AI startup founded 2020, collecting multimodal driving data across 30+ German cities to train foundation models for autonomous vehicles and robotics.
Yaak Technologies GmbH is a German AI company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin. The company operates at the intersection of autonomous driving and embodied AI, building a spatial intelligence platform that collects, curates, and processes large-scale multimodal sensor data from on-road vehicles.
Yaak was co-founded by CEO Soren Halskov Nissen, Harsimrat Sandhawalia, and CTO Martin Zielinski. The company is registered at the Berlin-Charlottenburg commercial court under HRB 214543 B, with its registered address at c/o The Drivery, Mariendorfer Damm 1, 12099 Berlin.
The company deploys a fleet of instrumented vehicles equipped with eight cameras, vehicle integration hardware, and edge compute that collect petabytes of multi-modal sensor data each month across more than 30 cities in Germany. Data annotation and curation is performed by domain experts, including certified driving instructors, to ensure high-quality ground truth labels for safety-critical applications.
Yaak developed SafetyAI, a multimodal end-to-end model for assessing the safety of both human and machine driving behaviors, launched after approximately three years of data collection. The Nutron foundation model platform enables machine learning engineering teams to search, review, and retrieve multimodal datasets using natural language queries, designed to serve autonomous driving and robotics organizations.
In February 2022, Yaak raised EUR 7.3 million in seed funding co-led by First Fellow Partners and Maki.vc, with participation from Forward Ventures and PreSeed Ventures. The company has received additional funding from the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB), the regional development bank. Total reported funding reached approximately USD 9.65 million across multiple rounds through late 2022.
Yaak's technology targets automotive OEMs, autonomous driving software companies, and robotics teams requiring large-scale real-world sensor datasets and pre-trained foundation models for navigation and safety validation.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
SafetyAI
Multimodal end-to-end model for scoring the safety of human and machine driving behaviors.
Nutron
Foundation model platform for natural-language search and retrieval across multimodal driving datasets.
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2020
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Europe
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