Autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai has raised $102 million, bringing its valuation close to a billion dollars. : Pony.ai is riding the gravy train. Just months after it closed a $112 million funding round with Morningside Venture Capital, Legend Capital, and Sequoia China, the autonomous car startup today announced that it has raised another $102 million from lead investors ClearVue Partners and Eight Roads (Fidelity International Limited’s investment arm), putting it close to a billion dollar valuation.