Wayve

Wayve is a British self-driving company founded in 2017 in Cambridge by machine-learning researchers Alex Kendall and Amar Shah, now headquartered in London's King's Cross with additional offices in Vancouver and Silicon Valley. Kendall has led the company as CEO since 2020. Wayve pioneered what it brands AV2.0, or "Autonomous Driving 2.0" — a camera-first, end-to-end deep-learning approach in which a single neural network learns to drive directly from data and experience, rather than relying on pre-built HD maps and hand-engineered rule stacks. The company was the first to deploy end-to-end AI on public roads, and its pitch is a general-purpose "AI driver" that generalizes across vehicles and geographies without per-city mapping. Wayve plans to launch robotaxi pilots with Uber later in 2026 and to feed its software into Nissan driver-assistance systems from 2027. It has raised more than $2 billion across a $1.05 billion Series C (May 2024) and a $1.2 billion Series D (February 2026), from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Microsoft, Nvidia, Uber, Eclipse, and Baillie Gifford. In June 2026 it opened an $85 million employee tender offer.