Yaak Technologies in a €7.3 million funding round raised from Maki.vc and First Fellow Partners.

Yaak Technologies, a Berlin, Germany-based startup building an autonomous driving platform used for selling driving lessons, announced a series A round closed at €7.3 million ($8.3M).

The money was raised from backers led by two Finland-based investors - Maki VC and First Fellow Partners (family investment office of Kim Groop and Risto Siilasmaa), joined by Denmark-based seed investor PreSEED Ventures.

Yaak Technologies, founded in by Martin Zielinski, Harsimrat Singh Sandhawalia and CEO Søren Nissen, developed a proprietary safety platform, SafetyOS, which can be used for training and testing drivers on the road and provides realistic simulations via virtual reality. The company says it focuses on quantifying and improving the safety of drivers, enabling riders to get feedback and metrics needed for the development of the autonomous tech stack. The VR simulations can illustrate to the driver how a situation could have been avoided or handled better, all the while, creating a massive data set about safe and unsafe driving decisions.

Yaak previously was pre-seeded from investors from Denmark including The Nordic Web Ventures and byFounders as well as by Forward VC from the Netherlands.