Wayve
wayve.ai
Machine Learning
Autonomous Driving
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$1.3B
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$1.1B
Series C · 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Backers
10
Eclipse, Airstreet
The money's age
Long since its last round
27 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
10/100
a new city
Last sign of life
2 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 11
First sales or marketing role Head of Marketing
Jul 7
First role in Israel Machine Learning Engineer, ADAS
May 15
First role in Canada Research Scientist, Wayve Labs
2024
Raised a round Series C $1.1B
Oct 5, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Gaia-1 a 9B parameter generative world model for autonomous driving · 118 points
2021
Raised a round Series B $200M
2019
Raised a round Series A $20M
2017
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.03%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
22
best: 118 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | 2024 | $1.1B | — | |
| Series B | 2021 | $200M | — | |
| Series A | 2019 | $20M | — |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Alex KendallCo-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Amar ShahCo-Founder
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Eclipse 
Airstreet 
Balderton Capital 
Compound 
firstminute capital 
Fly Ventures 
Icehouse Ventures 
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Overview
Wayve is a British autonomous driving company founded in Cambridge in 2017 that trains end-to-end neural networks to drive rather than assembling hand-written rules around high-definition maps. Its AI Driver learns from camera video and can be deployed on standard vehicle sensor sets, which is what lets the company demonstrate driving in cities it has never mapped. Headquartered in London and backed by a one billion dollar SoftBank-led round plus investment from NVIDIA, Microsoft and Uber, it partners with carmakers to ship assisted driving software and is developing fully driverless deployments.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Wayve over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
160
Postings analysed
205
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python51%
C++31%
SQL8%
Bash7%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch43%
Ignite43%
CUDA7%
Ray7%
Databases
Milvus1%
ClickHouse<1%
LanceDB<1%
PostgreSQL<1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux24%
Azure11%
Kubernetes11%
NVIDIA Drive8%
AI & ML
VLM3%
Gaussian Splatting1%
Claude1%
LLM1%
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Products
Embodied AI Platform
The platform packages Wayve's models, data engine and validation tooling for automotive partners. It lets carmakers integrate learned driving into their own vehicle programmes.
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LINGO
LINGO is a vision-language-action model that explains the driving decisions the system takes in natural language. It makes an otherwise opaque neural policy auditable by engineers and regulators.
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GAIA
GAIA is Wayve's generative world model that produces realistic driving video from text, action or image prompts. It is used to synthesise rare and dangerous scenarios for training and evaluation.
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AI Driver
The AI Driver is Wayve's end-to-end driving foundation model that maps camera input directly to control. It is designed to run on production vehicle hardware and generalise to new cities without bespoke mapping.
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People
Alex Kendall
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Alex Kendall co-founded Wayve in 2017 during his doctorate at the University of Cambridge and leads it as chief executive. His research on deep learning for perception underpins the company's end-to-end approach.
Amar Shah
Co-Founder
Amar Shah co-founded Wayve after a doctorate in machine learning at Cambridge. He worked on the company's early reinforcement learning driving research.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
24/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
0
0 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
54 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/13/2026
Hiring Dynamics
-100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
18% ▲
Backend
14% ▼
DevOps
8%
Product
8%
Leadership
7% ▼
Data Science
6%
Actively hiring for AI/ML (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added A/B Testing to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added Slack to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Leonberg
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added DHCP to stack
Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
8
Countries
6
Busiest office
London
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London
United Kingdom
HQ
77 open roles 63 posted in 90 days 53% engineering 200-500 est. staff $360k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Leadership
Sunnyvale
United States
Regional office
63 open roles 45 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 200-500 est. staff $311k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Leadership
Leonberg
Germany
Plant / site
14 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 36% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Data Science, DevOps, Management
Tokyo
Japan
Plant / site
13 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 46% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Backend, Product
Yokohama
Japan
Regional office
4 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Leadership, Management, Field & Service
Herzliya
Israel
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Backend, DevOps
Detroit
United States
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Field & Service, Solutions
Vancouver
Canada
1 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
Financials
Total raised
$1.3B
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
3
Investors
5
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Series C | 2024 | $1.1B |
| Series B | 2021 | $200M |
| Series A | 2019 | $20M |
Key Investors
Uber
Uber took a strategic stake in Wayve and plans to deploy its technology on the ride-hailing network. The partnership targets driverless operation in the United Kingdom.
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Eclipse Ventures
Eclipse Ventures led Wayve's Series B financing. The firm invests in companies digitising physical industries.
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Microsoft
Microsoft backed Wayve and provides Azure supercomputing capacity for training its driving models. It joined the Series C alongside SoftBank.
microsoft.com
NVIDIA
NVIDIA invested in Wayve and supplies the in-vehicle and training compute behind its models. The two also collaborate on automotive platform integration.
nvidia.com
SoftBank Vision Fund
SoftBank led Wayve's one billion dollar Series C round in 2024. The investment was the largest ever raised by a European AI company at the time.
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