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As of this week, Hayden AI, a leading provider of vision AI solutions powering safer, smarter, and more efficient cities, has installed over 2,000 vision AI systems on public transport buses across the globe, marking a significant milestone for the automated transit zone enforcement technology provider.

Hayden AI, a leader in vision AI and edge solutions for cities, today announced the appointment of Marty Beard as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. He is based at the company’s San Francisco headquarters.

Hayden AI has once again been recognized on the global stage, earning the title of Overall Computer Vision Solution of the Year in the 2025 AI Breakthrough Awards. This marks the third straight year Hayden AI has been honored by the program, a testament to the company’s continued success in solving real-world urban mobility challenges using AI.

Starting today, two more Southern California cities—Santa Monica and West Hollywood—will deploy Hayden AI’s game-changing automated transit enforcement platform. This innovative technology will tackle the growing issue of illegally parked vehicles obstructing bus lanes and bus stops, making public transit safer, more efficient, and more reliable for millions of LA-area commuters. The cities join the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and Culver City in using Hayden AI’s industry leading solution to revolutionize how public transportation is delivered.

Culver CityBus has launched an automated enforcement program using Hayden AI’s advanced perception technology to keep shared bus/bike lanes and bus stops clear, improve public transit reliability, and enhance road safety. This marks Hayden AI’s fourth enforcement program in California and underscores the growing adoption of technology-driven solutions to improve urban mobility.

Nearly 8,000 parking violations at bus stops were detected in a three-month pilot of Hayden AI’s automated bus stop enforcement system in Braga, Portugal, revealing significant disruptions to safe and reliable public transport service. The pilot ended on December 16th, 2024, and was funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)’s AI Challenge, which Hayden AI and the City of Braga won together in January 2024.

Hayden AI, the US market leader in automated bus lanes, bus stops, bike lanes and double parking enforcement, has been awarded as a GovTech 100 company for 2025. This marks the fifth consecutive year that Hayden AI has been selected as one of the most innovative companies in the government technology sector.

Hayden AI Technologies, Inc (“Hayden AI”), the leader in vision AI solutions for smart cities, today announced $90 million in new growth equity financing. The Series C round was led by The Rise Fund, the multi-sector strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform, and was supported by existing investors such as the Drawdown Fund and Autotech Ventures, among others. This investment will accelerate the company’s research, development and growth.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics, has won €100,000 from the Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility competition to deploy Hayden AI’s mobile perception technology on public transport buses in Barcelona for a six-month pilot. This competitive award program is hosted by the Barcelona City Council, the Barcelona Institute of Technology for the Habitat, Fira de Barcelona, and Tomorrow.Mobility.

Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics, has been announced as the winner of the Computer Vision Innovation Award by the 2024 AI Breakthrough Awards. This is the second consecutive year that Hayden AI’s mobile vision AI platform has been recognized by Tech Breakthrough, demonstrating the company’s success in using vision AI and edge processing to help cities and transit agencies improve road safety, sustainability, and transportation accessibility.

Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and spatial analytics, today announced that Sam Dundee has joined the company as its Chief Financial Officer. Dundee will lead financial strategy, corporate development and all back office operations for the rapidly-growing AI company, ensuring that Hayden AI maintains its market lead in mobile automated bus lane and bus stop enforcement and leverages its vision AI technology and spatial analytics platform for additional use cases.

Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and spatial analytics, is partnering with the City of Tallinn, Estonia’s capital, to pilot Hayden AI’s automated bus lane and bus stop enforcement platform. The pilot is part of the city’s “Test in Tallinn” initiative, which aims to develop and implement smart city solutions for global markets.

Hayden AI, a global leader in vision AI and spatial analytics, today announced a new product for its vision AI platform: automated double parking enforcement. Utilizing the same hardware and AI technology as the company’s automated bus lane, bus stop, and bike lane enforcement platform, this new application of the technology is designed to improve road safety and public transit performance by reducing instances of illegal double parking through highly accurate and scalable enforcement.

Hayden AI, a global leader in vision AI and spatial analytics, and Snapper Services, creators of the Mosaiq Transit Intelligence Suite, today announced a new partnership to enhance data analysis for public transport providers. By leveraging Hayden AI’s mobile perception platform installed on buses for transit zone enforcement and Mosaiq Insights, Snapper’s industry-leading analytics platform, the partnership will unlock insights for transit agencies from new and existing data sources.

Hayden AI, a leader in vision artificial intelligence and spatial analytics, has been recognized by TIME Magazine as one of America’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024. Hayden AI’s patented vision AI platform has been deployed in several major U.S. metropolitan cities. Hayden AI is currently a market leader in mobile automated bus lane and bus stop enforcement.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics, has won the EIT AI Transatlantic Award, a competitive award for start-ups offering AI solutions to improve safety, transport reliability, and sustainability in Europe conducted by the EIT AI Community and the EIT Silicon Valley Hub. Hayden AI will use award funding to conduct a proof-of-concept automated bus stop enforcement pilot with the city of Braga, Portugal.

Two leading AI companies, Hayden AI, a provider of vision AI and spatial analytics technologies, and LYT, a provider of intelligent connected traffic technology solutions, today announced a partnership designed to holistically enhance public transportation. The companies seek to combine the real-time data and location accuracy applications of Hayden AI’s bus-mounted vision AI platform and LYT’s transit signal priority system to create technology solutions that help transit agencies improve road safety, on-time bus performance, and accessibility – several key factors for riders when choosing public transit.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics, has signed a contract with ZTM Gdańsk for an automated bus lane and bus stop enforcement pilot. The partnership is Hayden AI’s first international deployment, making Gdańsk, Poland the first city outside the United States to test the company’s state-of-the-art vision AI platform.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics, has won the GovTech 100 award for 2024. This marks the fourth year in a row that Hayden AI has been selected as one of the most innovative companies in the government technology sector.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics, announced that it has signed a contract with Los Angeles Metro (LA Metro) for deployment of bus lane and bus stop enforcement camera systems on buses that operate within the City of Los Angeles. Under the agreement, 100 systems will initially be installed this winter and fully operational in spring 2024.

Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics, has been awarded a patent for its system for automatically validating video evidence of traffic violations, enabling cities to enforce dangerous traffic violations at scale. The patent was awarded on October 3, 2023 and is labeled US Patent number 11,776,276, B1.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics, today announced a new product for its vision AI platform: automated bike lane enforcement. Utilizing the same hardware and AI technology as the company’s automated bus lane and bus stop enforcement platform, this new application of the technology is designed to keep bike lanes safe and accessible for bike riders by reducing illegal parking that endangers their safety.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and geospatial mapping, won first place at the Urban Tech Challengers 2023 event in Warsaw, Poland in the "Optimizing Urban Operations" category. The company will demonstrate its award-winning vision AI solution at the Smart City Expo World Congress next week in Barcelona from November 7-9.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics, is pleased to announce the successful closing of its $53M Series B funding round. The oversubscribed round was led by the Drawdown Fund, a growth equity firm dedicated to advancing companies and products that are addressing major drivers of climate change.

Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning, today announced that Daniel Hoffer has joined the company as its Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. Hoffer will lead planning and execution of long-term strategies to make the business more competitive and profitable to further increase the company’s market lead in mobile automated bus lane and bus stop enforcement and development of its geospatial analytics platform leveraging its patented AI-powered vision technology.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning, was named an Urban Tech Challengers finalist. The winner will be announced in October following a pitch competition at Urban Tech Forward, Europe’s premier event for urban technology innovators.

Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning, has been awarded a patent for its traffic enforcement data management system using blockchain. The patent was awarded on August 15, 2023 and is labeled US Patent number 11,727,795 B1.

Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, has been awarded a patent for its camera-based perception system that detects objects from behind vehicle windshields. The patent was awarded on June 27, 2023 and is labeled U.S. Patent number 11,689,787.

Hayden AI today announced that Luc Vincent, a former AI leader at Meta, has joined the company as its Chief Product & Technology Officer. In addition to leading automated bus lane enforcement projects, thereby helping make our cities greener and more efficient, he will drive the development of Hayden AI’s soon to be released digital twins.

The City of Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus is completing testing of camera-based bus lane and bus stop enforcement technology on Route 3 and Rapid 3. The bus-mounted system automatically detects illegally parked vehicles in bus lanes and at bus stops along the routes. No citations will be issued during the pilot.

Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Best Overall Computer Vision Company in the 2023 AI Breakthrough Awards. A panel of judges selected Hayden AI out of 3,000 nominations from all over the world.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, today announced a new solution in its transit performance platform: automated enforcement of moving violations in bus lanes.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, today announced a new solution in its transit performance platform: automated bus stop enforcement.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, has built an emissions calculator for transit agencies to measure the environmental impact of automated bus lane enforcement (ABLE) technology. The new online tool highlights how automated enforcement keeps bus lanes clear of illegally parked vehicles, reducing emissions by increasing bus speeds and keeping buses on schedule.

Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, has successfully completed the first phase of expansion for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) automated bus lane enforcement (ABLE) program, with 300 mobile perception systems installed between August and December 2022. Bus routes in Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island were included in the nine additional Select Bus Service (SBS) routes activated this year. Ultimately, the goal of the ABLE program is to increase bus speeds in all five New York City boroughs.

Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, has been awarded a patent for technology that collects, analyzes, and verifies user-generated traffic incident reports with artificial intelligence. The patent was awarded on October 18, 2022 and is labeled U.S. Patent number 11,475,766 B1.

This week’s expansion of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Automated Bus Lane Enforcement (ABLE) to the Q44 bus route will feature the first deployments of Hayden AI’s patented perception systems. The activation of the Q44-SBS route marks the first of the 9 bus routes to be activated for ABLE by the end of this year.

Conduent Transportation, a global provider of smart mobility technology solutions and a business unit of Conduent Incorporated (Nasdaq: CNDT), and Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, today announced a partnership to develop and deliver an automated technology solution designed to improve safety for children who ride on school buses. The solution will be available later this year and will help communities with increased enforcement of traffic laws intended to keep children safe.

Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, today announced it has joined NVIDIA Metropolis, a partner program focused on bringing to market a new generation of vision AI applications. NVIDIA Metropolis nurtures a rich ecosystem and offers powerful developer tools to supercharge vision AI applications that are designed to make the world’s most important spaces and operations safer and more efficient.