Faction

Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car.

Y CombinatorWinter 2021InactiveIndustrialsAutomotiveAutonomous DeliveryRoboticsLogisticsElectric Vehicles

What they do

Problem

Urban transportation and delivery are expensive, inefficient, and reliant on human drivers, limiting affordable, sustainable mobility options.

Solution

Faction provides right-sized supervised autonomous electric vehicles operated as fleet services to deliver low-cost driverless mobility.

Who it's for

Mobility and logistics operators, municipalities, and organizations that deploy and manage vehicle fleets use the service.

Founders

Ain McKendrick

Founder

Previously CEO at Faction Technology. Prior to founding Faction, Ain has focused on autonomous systems on everything from light electric vehicles to the first successful driverless semi trucks to run on public highways. Before getting in to the vehicle space, Ain spent a number of years in consumer electronics at Netflix, Dell, TiVo, and various startups. He began his career as one of the founders of Palm Computing developing the original PalmPilot handheld digital assistants.