Waabi

Waabi, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Toronto, is a Physical AI company developing an end-to-end, simulation-first AI platform for autonomous trucking and broader autonomous mobility. The company applies machine learning, computer vision and end-to-end AI stacks to autonomous driving, with particular emphasis on the interpretability and verifiability of the systems it builds. A publicly discussed major funding round has supported its expansion across Canada and the United States.

Two central products structure the technical work. Waabi World is a high-fidelity simulator used to develop and validate autonomous driving technology before deployment, in place of costlier and riskier traditional road testing. Waabi Driver is an AI-powered autonomous driving stack designed to learn from both simulated and real-world data and to reason and adapt across real-world environments. The company is working to scale a single, shared AI brain across vehicle platforms, including trucks and robotaxis. A Direct-to-Customer trucking model integrates with existing logistics networks to deliver autonomous transportation directly to customers.

Waabi operates from four offices, in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas and Pittsburgh. Its stated priorities include safety, interpretability and verifiability, alongside a simulation-first approach to development. The company describes a mission-driven culture rooted in a Canadian AI vision with global ambitions, and a collaborative ecosystem of technology partners, investors and customers across the autonomous trucking, logistics and freight, robotaxi and autonomous transportation sectors.