£25.0M
The round was co-led by Eclipse, Balderton and SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
"We are making larger investments in high growth companies like Wayve to support the UK’s most promising businesses to start, scale, and stay in the UK."
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Baillie Gifford
OtherBaillie Gifford is an established investment firm known for early backing of companies such as Tesla.
Portfolio
6
companies
AUM
£346B
under management
Investment by month
By category
- FinTech£5.3B
- Uncategorised£400M
- SecurTech£382M
- AI/ML£336M
- Blockchain£88.6M
By location
- Ireland£5.3B
- Portugal£400M
- Boston£382M
- Cambridge£172M
- Bristol£164M
- Other£88.6M
Portfolio companies
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Blockchain.com
Blockchain.com provides a platform for buying, holding, and using digital assets.
Graphcore
Graphcore develops specialized processors designed for artificial intelligence workloads.
Snyk
Snyk provides developer security tools to help enterprises build software securely.
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Stripe
Stripe builds payment processing and economic infrastructure for the internet economy.
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Tekever
Tekever builds AI-powered drone intelligence systems for maritime surveillance.
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Wayve
Wayve builds end-to-end artificial intelligence software for autonomous vehicles.
Recent investments
£400M
The London-led financing values the defence technology company at over £1bn.
$110M
Kingsway Capital led the Series E financing, which values the cryptocurrency exchange at under $7bn.
$6.5B
The funding round involves participation from existing shareholders and new investors to provide employee liquidity.
"Over the last 12 years, current and former employees of Stripes have helped build foundational economic infrastructure for millions of businesses around the world, and this transaction gives them the opportunity to access the value they've helped create. But the internet economy is still young, and the opportunities of the next 12 years will dwarf those of the recent past. There's so much to discover and to create. For us, it's now back to work."
Andreessen Horowitz + 8 others
The London-based crypto platform secured fresh capital from global venture firms to push its valuation to $14bn.
