Other
Feb 2026Series D announcement marks a major transition from research and development to scaled commercial deployment; execution, regulatory approval, safety validation and robotaxi launch remain material risks.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
Wayve is a UK autonomous-driving software company founded in Cambridge that develops end-to-end Embodied AI: a general-purpose driving intelligence intended to power assisted driving, automated driving and robotaxis across different vehicles and geographies.
Primary product
AI Driver / AV2.0: a vehicle-agnostic, mapless autonomous-driving software platform using camera and onboard-sensor data, fleet learning and embedded compute; commercial applications include L2+ ADAS, L3/L4 autonomy and robotaxis.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Team size
900-1,000+ (946 reported for Q1 2026; Wayve’s official site says 1,000+ as of 2026)
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development / Information Technology
Sub-industry
Autonomous-driving software, artificial intelligence, robotics and automotive technology
Offices
London, United Kingdom
Sunnyvale/Mountain View, California, United States
Vancouver, Canada
Herzliya, Israel
Stuttgart/Leonberg, Germany
Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Business model
Licensing AI Driver software to automakers and mobility/fleet operators
OEM integration and technology partnerships
Robotaxi technology supplied to fleet/mobility partners
Data, fleet-learning and deployment partnerships
Funding
Stage
Late-stage private company / Series D
Total raised
$2.8B
Latest round
Series D · Feb 2026
Latest amount
$1.2B
Feb 2026 · Eclipse, Balderton and SoftBank Vision Fund 2
Aug 2025 · Innovate UK
May 2024 · SoftBank Group
Jan 2022 · Eclipse Ventures
$19.8M
Jul 2019 · Eclipse
Sep 2017 · Fly Ventures / Compound
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Erez Dagan
President
Max Warburton
Chief Financial Officer
Jamie Shotton
Chief Scientist
Emma Baillie
Chief People Officer
Dan McCloskey
Vice President, Hardware
Kaity Fischer
Vice President, Commercial & Operations
Silvius Rus
Senior Vice President, Engineering
Simone Fabris
Vice President, Product & Delivery
Vijay Badrinarayanan
Vice President, AI
Frank Fink
Director, Automotive Partnerships
Rob Flenniken
Vice President, Vehicle Software
Sarah Gates
Vice President, Global Affairs & Assurance
Joanne Lin
Director, Supply Chain
Tim Dawkins
Head of Safety
Founders
Amar Shah
Co-founder
Work & culture
Mission-driven, research-heavy and engineering-led, with emphasis on fast iteration, data-driven decisions, constructive candor, inclusion and collaboration across science, software, robotics and automotive teams. Public employee commentary also suggests a demanding, high-growth environment and substantial cross-time-zone work.
Work style
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public sources indicate competitive pay plus equity; third-party hiring data reports H-1B sponsorship history and some remote roles. Wayve does not publish a universal compensation band; third-party estimates suggest senior ML compensation is materially higher in the US than London, but these figures are not company-confirmed.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity/stock options
Private healthcare (reported for UK roles)
Mental-health support
Enhanced parental leave
Paid holiday and additional leave programs
Learning, books and training budgets
Office meals/onsite chef reported for London
Team socials and community events
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; appears to be enterprise/OEM licensing and integration pricing, with partner-funded deployments rather than a consumer subscription.
Differentiators
- —End-to-end learned driving policy rather than a large rule-based modular stack
- —Mapless and designed to generalize across cities, vehicles and geographies
- —Vehicle-agnostic AI Driver intended for licensing to multiple OEMs and fleets
- —Lean sensor/compute approach compared with heavily mapped or sensor-intensive systems
- —Fleet learning and large-scale real-world data feedback loop
- —Embodied-AI research including generative world models and neural simulation
Technology
End-to-end deep learning
Embodied AI
AV2.0
Fleet Learning
Computer vision
Foundation models
GAIA-1/GAIA-4 world models
LINGO
Neural simulation / Ghost Gym
Imitation learning
Reinforcement learning
Sim-to-real transfer
NVIDIA GPUs and DRIVE platforms
Microsoft Azure GPU training infrastructure
PyTorch
TensorFlow
C++
Python
Docker
Kubernetes/MLOps
Customers
Uber
Nissan
Mercedes-Benz
Stellantis
Ocado
Asda
Competitors
Tesla
Waymo
Mobileye
Aurora
Zoox
Pony.ai
Cruise
Nuro
Baidu Apollo Go
Comma.ai
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1B-$2B (third-party estimate; not company-disclosed and may reflect modeled revenue rather than audited sales)
Estimated monthly visits
102.1K
Traffic estimate as of Aug 2026
Signals & risks
Other
Jul 2026Wayve announced an $85 million employee tender offer after Series D, partly to retain employees during the commercialization and international expansion phase; this is a liquidity/retention signal rather than a reported layoff.
SourceLatest news
Wayve · Feb 2026
Wayve announced a $1.2B Series D at an $8.6B post-money valuation, plus milestone-based Uber capital bringing secured capital to $1.5B and total funding to $2.8B.
TechCrunch · Feb 2026
Coverage details the Series D syndicate, automaker participation and planned Uber robotaxi deployment.
TechCrunch · Sep 2025
NVIDIA signed a letter of intent to evaluate a potential $500M strategic investment in Wayve’s next round; the later Series D included NVIDIA.
Wayve press archive · Oct 2024
Wayve’s public partnership roadmap links its AI Driver with Nissan vehicles and Uber’s mobility network for robotaxi deployment.
TechCrunch · May 2024
Wayve closed a $1.05B Series C led by SoftBank, with NVIDIA and Microsoft participating.
Jobs and careers at Wayve
0 jobs at Wayve
No open positions
Check back later for new openings