Niulinx, a spin-off of the Politecnico di Milano, founded at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, and active in the development of autonomous driving technologies, has closed a €38 million funding round. The transaction was led by A2A and CDP Venture Capital, with participation from AFL, Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Pirelli, VC Partners SGR, MOST – National Center for Sustainable Mobility, Fondazione ICO Falck, and a group of international individual investors.
The global autonomous driving market, currently valued at over $50 billion, is expected to exceed $300 billion by 2035. In this context, while the United States and China already host several leading players, Europe still lacks a major industrial champion in the sector. Niulinx was founded with the aim of helping bridge this gap by proposing a fully European technological and industrial model.
The company develops the entire technological stack required for autonomous driving, ranging from environmental perception to route planning, from vehicle control to remote fleet management. Its technology is rooted in the research activities of the AIDA – Artificial Intelligence Driving Autonomous group at Politecnico di Milano, coordinated by Prof. Sergio Matteo Savaresi from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering.
Niulinx stands out for its approach based on robust experimental evidence. In 2025, a pilot project brought autonomous driving solutions developed within academic research onto the streets of Brescia, with the goal of enabling an innovative car-sharing model. The system envisions electric vehicles capable of autonomously reaching the user, transporting them to their destination, and subsequently proceeding to a wireless charging station or to the next customer.