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January 18, 2022

Wayve’s alternative autonomous driving approach gets $200m funding boost

UK startup has a different AI approach to self-driving cars, and aims to be first to deploy autonomous vehicles in 100 cities


Maija Palmer

4 min read

Alex Kendall, CEO of Wayve

Wayve, a London-based startup creating autonomous driving technology based on computer vision and machine learning, has raised a $200m Series B funding round to help get self-driving cars onto the road faster.

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