
Wayve
Embodied AI for autonomous driving — zero-shot generalization across 500+ cities
- Size
- Growth (51-500)
- Founded
- 2017
- Stage
- Series D
- Last valuation
- $8.6B
- Raised
- ~$3B+
London-based autonomous driving startup pioneering end-to-end deep learning that generalizes to new cities without HD maps or city-specific engineering.
3 mentions across our dossiers
“This is a single-source dependency on NVIDIA silicon — a chokepoint, and notable given NVIDIA is also a shareholder and is arming Nuro's competitors (Wayve, others) on the identical platform.”Nuro · BOTH · from Nuro’s dossier
Company details
| Industry | AI & Machine Learning |
| Type | Tech Startup |
| Size | Growth (51-500) |
| Founded | 2017 |
| Funding | |
| Stage | Series D |
| Valuation | $8.6B |
| Raised | ~$3B+ |
| Lead investors | EclipseBalderton CapitalSoftBank Vision Fund 2MicrosoftNVIDIAUberMercedes-BenzNissanStellantisOntario Teachers' Pension Plan |
| Website | Visit Wayve |
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