ISEE
Cambridge, US · Founded 2016 · Delaware corporation · 69 employees on LinkedIn · 9 known investors
ISEE AI builds fully autonomous yard trucks for industrial supply chain and logistics operations, combining an AI platform with software and hardware engineering to automate yard operations. Its solution aims to improve yard efficiency, throughput, and safety while integrating into existing daily operations.
Also known as ISEE AI · isee.ai
Founders & leadership
ISEE was founded in 2016 by Yibiao Zhao.
Board
Investors · 9
Also in the syndicate · 1
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$42.7M disclosed across 2 of 3 rounds · 2017–2022
- $40MSeries BNov 2022 · 2 sourcesSource ↗
▶$2.7MraisedSep 2017 · 10 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Le YuDirector
- Reed SturtevantDirector
- Yibiao ZhaoExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $2.7M
- Amount sold
- $2.7M
- First sale
- Sep 2017
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2016
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026ISEE (ISEE AI) develops autonomous yard truck solutions for industrial supply chain and logistics yards. The company positions its offering as a fully autonomous system for the yard environment, intended to move loads and complete jobs with more consistent truck performance, improving responsiveness, service levels and throughput compared with existing yard operations.
The product combines an AI platform with software and hardware engineering to operate vehicles in dynamic industrial settings. ISEE emphasizes coordination between vehicles and between vehicles and people, and describes an integration approach that allows customers to adopt automation incrementally without interrupting daily yard operations. The company also publishes research, including work presented at L4DC 2024 on a counterfactual approach to safe reinforcement learning and at WACV 2024 on unsupervised optimization-based scene flow estimation.
Business model
ISEE supplies autonomous yard truck solutions to yard operators, delivered as an integrated combination of autonomy software and vehicle hardware engineering, with a stated path to adoption that does not interrupt existing operations.
Latest developments
In April 2025 ISEE announced a strategic partnership with TICO covering fully integrated autonomous yard trucks for customer operations, and reported earning a CyberVadis Gold Medal along with a penetration test certification.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market
Market position
ISEE presents its product as the only fully autonomous solution operating in the yard, citing an AI platform able to handle dynamic, unpredictable interactions with people and equipment, integrated engineering for industrial deployment, and roots in MIT technology.
Technology
ISEE describes a flexible AI platform paired with software and hardware engineering that brings autonomous vehicles into real-world industrial environments. The autonomy system is designed to interact with people and equipment in dynamic and unpredictable situations, anticipating vehicle-vehicle and human-vehicle interactions in the yard. The company states its solution is based on MIT technology that uses AI to replicate human behavior, and it has published research on safe reinforcement learning (L4DC 2024) and scene flow estimation (WACV 2024).
Go-to-market
The company markets directly to yard operators through demo requests on its website and works with vehicle partners; in April 2025 it announced a strategic partnership with TICO to deliver fully integrated autonomous yard trucks into customer operations.
Operators of industrial supply chain and logistics yards that use yard trucks to move loads and seek to automate those operations.
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Competitors · 3
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Companies competing with ISEE for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsISEE announced a strategic partnership with TICO to deliver fully integrated autonomous yard trucks to customer operations, reported via Business Wire.
ISEE AI received a CyberVadis Gold Medal rating and a penetration test certification related to its cybersecurity practices.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 1
primary sources listed
- ISEEisee.ai · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does ISEE do?
- ISEE builds fully autonomous yard trucks that automate container and trailer moves in industrial logistics yards.
- Who founded ISEE?
- ISEE was founded by Yibiao Zhao in 2016.
- Who are ISEE's investors?
- ISEE's investors include Boston Seed Capital, Eniac Ventures, Hyperplane Venture Capital, Maersk Growth, Safar Partners, Samsung Next, The Engine Ventures, Founders Fund.
- How much funding has ISEE raised?
- ISEE has disclosed $42.7M raised across 2 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is ISEE headquartered?
- ISEE is headquartered in Cambridge, US.