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Wayve

Application

Autonomous driving company using end-to-end AI for self-driving.

Total funding$2.8B

Valuation$8.6B

Employees1,200

Founded2017

HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom

StatusPrivate

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Wayve AI Driver Platform Sold on its own

  End-to-end driving system licensed to carmakers, learned from driving data rather than hand-written rules and HD maps.

Closest alternatives 1

NNuroPrivate · $6BArticle explicitly names Nuro as one of Wayve's competitors pursuing the same licensing model. Wayve AI Driver and Nuro Driver both carry drive-autonomously.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeSame scale bandSourced competitorBuild a self-driving systemCompare

Similar products 14

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WWaabiPrivate · $1B raisedWayve AI Driver and Waabi Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (private).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareWWaymoPrivate · $126BWayve AI Driver and Waymo Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (private).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeLarger scaleCompareTTeslaPublic · $1.4TWayve AI Driver and Full Self-Driving (Supervised) do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAIApplied IntuitionPrivate · $15BWayve AI Driver and Vehicle OS do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (private).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareAAvridePrivateWayve AI Driver and Universal Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareZZooxPrivate · $990M raisedWayve AI Driver and Zoox do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareMMobileyePublicWayve AI Driver and SuperVision / Chauffeur do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Mobileye's scale not recorded; ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareHRHorizon RoboticsPublic · $8.8BWayve AI Driver and Horizon SuperDrive do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareKMKakao MobilityPrivateWayve AI Driver and 카카오모빌리티 자율주행 do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BWayve AI Driver and Baidu Apollo Open Platform do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeLarger scaleCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TWayve AI Driver and NVIDIA DRIVE do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAHArm HoldingsPublic · $282.8BWayve AI Driver and Arm Zena CSS do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (public); ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareAIAnduril IndustriesPrivate · $61BWayve AI Driver and Fury both serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (private).Shared product typeLarger scaleCompareHHelsingPrivate · $18BWayve AI Driver and Centaur both serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (private).Shared product typeLarger scaleCompare

Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 28 Jun 2026

Investors | Backed by the world's leading mobility innovators, Wayve, June 28, 2026. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Valuation

News reporting · 25 Feb 2026

Nvidia backs self-driving firm Wayve as it hits $8.6 billion valuation, CNBC, 2026-02-24. post-money valuation of the round dated 2026-02-25. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Employees

Press release · 1 Jul 2026

Wayve Announces $85M Employee Tender Offer, Wayve, 2026-07-01. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Founded

Wikipedia · 27 Aug 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field, read 2026-08-27.

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