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Wayve
Autonomous mobility driven by AI
- 201-500 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cars
- Transport
- Big data
- Deep Tech
- Robotics
- Flexible working
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- SaaS
- Cloud Computing
- London, United Kingdom
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Company mission
To reimagine autonomous mobility through embodied intelligence.
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back within 2 weeks
28% female employees
24% employee growth in 12 months
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Wayve is developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement learning, simulation, and computer vision. Wayve’s core premise is that the big breakthrough in self-driving cars will come from better AI brains rather than more sensors or “hand-coded” rules which it believes are highly restrictive and not at all scalable.
The company said that it trains its autonomous driving system using simulated environments and then transfers that knowledge into the real world, where it emulates how humans adapt to conditions in real time. It ultimately relies on end-to-end deep learning AI rather than hard-engineered AI. This is one of the world's hardest problems to solve, but Wayve has made an exciting start and is taking a very different approach to competitors like Uber and Waymo, who are relying more on sensors.
Following a few years of innovative breakthroughs, Wayve now has backing from high-profile investors such as Microsoft and angels, including Uber's chief scientist Zoubin Ghahramani and Pieter Abbeel, a UC Berkeley robotics professor and pioneer of deep reinforcement learning. The company's strategic partnerships with outfits like Asda and Ocado to test-run autonomous deliveries, as well as publicity through the Minister is a show of confidence in the future of Wayve's solution to autonomous driving.
Benefits
- Learning budget
- In-house chef
- Flexible Working
- Private health insurance and therapy
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Onsite bar
- Large social budgets
- Enhanced parental leave
Company values
- Pave new roads, explore unknown horizons: We take calculated risks and embrace unknown territory
- Leave positive tracks: A big reason for working on autonomous vehicles is for the positive impact they can have to the environment, the lives they will save, the opportunities they will create for others and more!
- Autonomous in thought, collective in action: We are built of strong, curious individuals coming from all walks of life, but who, together, want to achieve a common goal.
- Drive each other forward: We are a company that stands strong upon the foundation which it has created. This foundation is the team, the individuals who make Wayve, Wayve.
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES B
Oct 2021
$13.6m
EARLY VC
$255.7m
Total funding
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Founders
Alex Kendall
(CEO)Has a PhD from Cambridge in Computer Vision & Robotics. Previously Research Engineer at Skydio and Advisor to Scape Technologies
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